Ofer Schreiber

Senior Partner & Head of Israel Office

2013

YL Ventures funds and supports visionary cybersecurity entrepreneurs from seed to scale to help them evolve transformative ideas into market-leading companies. The firm accelerates company growth with tailored support through its powerful network of Chief Information Security Officers, global industry leaders, and a dedicated team of multidisciplinary experts. Based in Silicon Valley, New York and Tel Aviv, YL Ventures manages five funds with $800M in total AUM. The firm has a track record of seeding cybersecurity unicorns such as Axonius and Orca Security, and its portfolio companies have been successfully acquired by high-profile, global industry leaders including Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Okta and Proofpoint. In 2022, YL Ventures ranked 8th out of over 250 venture capital firms in PitchBook’s prestigious Global Manager Performance Score League Tables, and was the only cybersecurity-focused VC to secure a top 10 spot on the list. ofer@ylventures.com

Associate

2012 - 2013

Analyst

2009 - 2012

Seed Investor

2023

Miggo is the first Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform on a mission to stop application breaches. 80% of all cyber incidents happen in the application layer, however too many are being slipped by existing tools due to a blindspot to the actual application behavior. By using in-application runtime context, Miggo maps how applications actually operate in runtime, identifies high-risk application flows, pinpoints the weak spots, and provides real-time detection and response capabilities in the application layer.

Seed Investor

2022

Gutsy (www.gutsy.com) applies process mining to security to give enterprises a continuous, automatic, data-driven understanding of how all their tools and teams work together as part of processes.

Seed Investor

2022

Aim Security is the industry guide to secure GenAI adoption, equipping security leaders with the ability to drive business productivity while providing the right guardrails and ensuring proactive protection for all use cases across the entire organization, whether enterprise use or production use. Leading CISOs and security practitioners on their secure GenAI journey, Aim empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of GenAI technology without compromising security.

Seed Investor

2022

𝗢𝗽𝘂𝘀 is a singular, overarching Cloud Security Orchestration and Remediation platform, transforming the way remediation is conducted in the cloud. 𝗢𝗽𝘂𝘀 empowers cloud security teams to see beyond alerts and threats and gain control, knowledge, and capabilities to resolve them.

Seed Investor

2021

The Eureka Cloud Data Security Posture Management platform enables security teams to successfully navigate the ongoing and often chaotic expansion and growth of cloud data. Eureka automatically discovers entire enterprise cloud data store footprints, data store content and security and compliance risk while continuously monitoring, improving and communicating cloud data security posture and compliance. With Eureka, enterprise users are free to store, access and leverage data with guardrails that don’t interfere with business agility and operations, while security stakeholders are empowered to implement change rapidly and non-intrusively.

Seed Investor

2021

Piiano pioneers privacy engineering infrastructure for cloud-native applications. Its PII protection and management platform redefines how enterprises build and approach privacy by resolving the inherent risks of sensitive data handling. Now enterprises can proactively manage and protect consumer data with the Piiano code scanner and PII Vault for streamlined PII visibility and segregation. Instantly gain the compliance, visibility and control your organization needs over this sensitive customer data.

Seed Investor

2021

Valence is the first Business Application Mesh security company, focused on managing the risks from third-party integrations and securing app-to-app connectivity in the modern business environment. Valence’s platform applies zero trust principles to the Business Application Mesh, a complex network of applications interconnected by APIs and hyperautomation workflows, to deliver comprehensive visibility into the risk surface, reducing unauthorized access and preventing critical data loss.

Seed Investor

2021

Grip brings the industry’s most comprehensive visibility across all enterprise SaaS applications--known or unknown for apps, users, and their basic interactions with extreme accuracy to minimize false positives. Armed with deep visibility, Grip secures all SaaS application access regardless of device or location as well as mapping data flows to enforce security policies and prevent data loss across the entire SaaS portfolio.

Seed Investor

2020

Enso is the first Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) solution, helping security teams everywhere eliminate their AppSec chaos with application discovery, classification and management. Founded by application security experts, Enso easily deploys into enterprise environments to create an actionable, unified inventory of all application assets, their owners, security posture and associated risk. With Enso security, any AppSec team can build a simplified, agile and scalable application security program. For more information, visit enso.security.