YL Ventures GP Ltd Overview

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Founded in 2007, YL Ventures is a global VC firm which addresses the changing venture capital financing landscape. The firm provides venture financing in the seed and early stages. Currently investing out of its $27.5 million second fund, YL Ventures accelerate the evolution of portfolio companies via strategic advice and Silicon Valley-based operational execution.

The firm invests in companies based in the Europe and Israel region. Typical investments sizes are between €500,000 ($745,300) and €2 million ($2.98 million). The firm can also co-invest with strategic investors. It seeks to obtain substantial equity positions in its portfolio companies. The firm's investment period is six to 24 months and seeks to exit via sales to strategic acquirers, mainly United States based corporations.

The firm prefers to invest in the high technology software companies in and around the Internet with a focus on telecommunications, and digital media software. It primarily invests in web 2.0, vertical internet search, social networking, online gaming, analytics, performance, e-commerce infrastructure, big data, business intelligence analytics, cloud computing, SaaS, mobile technologies, online targeted advertising, cyber security, network security, application service providers, enterprise software, IPTV, interactive media, video on demand, peer-to-peer networks, mobile client server applications, 3G applications, telecom messaging solutions, online/mobile payments, and online mobile media distribution.

Notable investments include: 6Scan (website security vulnerabilities protection suite), FireLayers (industry's first policy-based platform for controlling, protecting, and analyzing cloud applications and data), Hexadite (automated incident response solutions) and Upstream Commerce (cloud-based, retailer pricing and product analytics solutions).

Locations

Location
Cayman Islands
P.O. Box 847, KY 1-1103
Cayman Islands
415.723.7703, San Francisco
660 4th Street 550, 94107-1618 CA
United States

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