YL Ventures Cybersecurity Newsletter - May 2023

Five Ways CISOs Can Succeed

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Four CISOs Walk Into a Room

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Apple Restricts Employees From Using ChatGPT Over Fear of Data Leaks

Read on The Verge >> 

We're thrilled to welcome another revolutionary startup to our portfolio: Spera Security! Spera raised a $10M seed round led by YL Ventures, with participation from an esteemed group of security luminaries. Learn about their mission to transform the Identity Security landscape on  YL Ventures' blog >> 

From exciting networking events to insightful panel discussions, YL Ventures led and participated in several activities at this year's RSA Conference, including:

• A networking cocktail with CISOs, founders, and prominent security leaders in collaboration with our portfolio companies Cycode, Enso, Eureka, Opus, Satori, Spera, Valence, and Vulcan. View the photo album here >>   
• Managing Partner Yoav Leitersdorf joined industry experts Dave DeWalt (NightDragon), Mark Hatfield (Ten Eleven Ventures), Dr. Chenxi Wang (Rain Capital), and Nadav Zafrir (Team8) in an enlightening RSA panel discussion on investment trends in cybersecurity. View the session here >>
• Partner Michael Cortez offered his perspective on a GrowthPoint Partners panel discussion with industry leaders Nikhil Sinha (Google), Manoj Ramachandran (Forgepoint Capital), John B. Dickson (Lasithi Security), Todd Dekkinga (Zluri and Scrut Automation), and moderators Sandeep Varma (Checkmarx) and Vijay Rawat (GrowthPoint).
• We had the pleasure of co-hosting an event celebrating Israeli innovation alongside ICON and leading VCs.

Read how Spera prevents account takeovers, stolen credentials, and phishing on Pulse2 »

Watch Opus' latest webinar on Cloud Security Orchestration and Remediation.

Watch here »

Eureka named to the 2023 CyberTech100 list of the most innovative cybersecurity companies in the world. Read here »

Watch Valence take the stage at the 2023 RSA Innovation Sandbox Competition.

Access here »

Rob Geurtsen, Founder & Principal at Blitz! | CISO in Residence at Hunters and Ret. Deputy CISO at Nike Inc.

“Do you research the company that you are trying to sell to? Not all CISOs are the same. Some are very technical, others are less, or not at all. Some like to be involved in product selections, others trust their teams. Make your connections at a level that suits your solution or product. Start at a level that you know will understand the nuanced benefits of your approach. Make them excited and work up or down from there.”  

$60M Series C

$20.5M Series B

Privileged Access Mgmt.

$20M Series B

Security Automation

$44M Series A

Ransomware Protection

$20M Series A

$17.5M Series A

 Software Supply Chain Security

$15M Series A

SaaS Security

$10M Seed

Identity Security Posture Management

$7M Seed

$500M Acquisition 
by Hewlett Packard Enterprise

$200M Acquisition 

by Cisco

$60M Acquisition

by IBM