
Managing Partner, YL Ventures, USA
Yoav Leitersdorf, Managing Partner at YL Ventures, has been a successful tech entrepreneur and investor for over 25 years. He founded YL Ventures in 2007 to help brilliant seed-stage entrepreneurs transform their ideas into game-changing companies. Today, YL Ventures is fully focused on seeding cybersecurity startups.
Under Leitersdorf’s leadership, YL Ventures has raised over $800M across five funds and expanded into a growing multidisciplinary team of experts supporting the most promising startups at every milestone with tailored value-add initiatives. He has also overseen the firm’s network grow into a vast arsenal of thousands of chief information security officers and cybersecurity experts keen to advance startup development from the earliest stages.
Leitersdorf works from the YL Ventures headquarters in Silicon Valley. Over the past decade, YL Ventures has developed 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.
Leitersdorf regularly speaks and features in interviews about the state of the cybersecurity industry and writes articles for major tech publications, including TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CSO Online, Forbes and Business Insider. Prior to YL Ventures, Leitersdorf founded, grew and sold three tech startups, worked at a leading U.S. venture capital firm, studied at IMD, and earned an MBA with honors from Columbia University.