Justin Somaini
Angel Investor @ YL Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Justin Somaini is a seed investor at YL Ventures in San Francisco focused on Cyber Security and Security. Justin Somaini - Chief Security Officer @ SAP
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Justin Somaini invests in
Stages Justin Somaini invests in
Countries Justin Somaini invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 3 (38%)
- Security 2 (25%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- Cloud Security 2 (25%)
- Machine Learning 2 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
Country
- Israel 3 (38%)
- United States 2 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| MIND is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) platform that is simple, autonomous and complete. | $72M / Series B / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| MIND is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) platform that is simple, autonomous and complete. | $30M / Series A / Jun 04, 2025 | ||
| Miggo Security is the Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform with a mission to prevent application breaches. | $17M / Series A / Apr 23, 2025 | ||
| MIND is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) platform that is simple, autonomous and complete. | $11M / Seed / Oct 30, 2024 | ||
| Miggo Security is the Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform with a mission to prevent application breaches. | $7.5M / Seed / Apr 17, 2024 | ||
| Valence enables security teams to find and fix SaaS risks. As SaaS complexity and distributed management present security challenges, the Valence SaaS security platform provides unparalleled and actionable insights into configuration, identity, data, SaaS-to-SaaS integration, and GenAI risks. The Valence platform offers comprehensive SaaS securityposture management (SSPM), risk remediation, and identity threat detection and response (ITDR). Valence’s unique remediation by choice capabilities allow security teams to leverage manual remediation, automated workflows and business user collaboration to scale their risk reduction and proactively secure their SaaS. Leading organizations leverage Valence to empower their business to securely adopt SaaS. | $7M / Seed / Oct 19, 2021 | ||
| Cycode is the industry’s first source code control, detection, and response platform. Its Source Path Intelligence engine seamlessly delivers comprehensive visibility into all of your code and automatically detects and responds to anomalies in its access, movement, and usage. With Cycode, organizations are “Secured to The Source”; its solutionempowers security teams to rapidly and dramatically reduce the risk of source code loss without impacting developer access or productivity. | $4.6M / Seed / Sep 26, 2019 | ||
| SourceClear is a developer tools company that is using data-science and machine-learning to make it easy for developers to build secure and reliable software. Based in San Francisco with an office in Singapore the executive team have previously led startups acquired by McAfee and VMWare and have had leadership roles at companies like GitHub andNewRelic. We are very well funded by top tier silicon valley venture capital and already have big brand paying customers like Uber, Atlassian and LinkedIn.In recent years both developers and hackers have turned their attention to open-source. Our tools help software developers use open-source safely by analyzing the libraries they use as part of the continuous delivery pipeline. With every build, teams get information about what libraries can be updated and which ones have vulnerabilities. Better still we integrate into the CI/CD and pull request workflow and make keeping libraries up-to-date a breeze.Our customers and partners include some of the best developer tools and tech companies in the world. Software developers, build engineers, DevOps and application security engineers technology, gaming, social media, retail, finance and defense industries rely on us to keep them safe and informed in real-time. | $1.5M / Seed / Jun 11, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About YL Ventures
YL Ventures funds and supports brilliant Israeli tech entrepreneurs from seed to lead. YL Ventures manages over $300 million and exclusively invests in cybersecurity. YL Ventures accelerates the evolution of portfolio companies via strategic advice and U.S.-based operational execution, leveraging a powerful network of Chief Information SecurityOfficers and global industry leaders. The firm's track record includes successful, high-profile portfolio company acquisitions by major corporations, including Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, CA, and Proofpoint.
YL Ventures Contacts
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Guy Leibovitz
Insider Company Nam
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Michael Cortez
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Nati Hazut
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Ofer Schreiber
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Roger Hale
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What does Justin Somaini invest in?
Justin Somaini invests primarily in Cyber Security, Security and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Justin Somaini last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Justin Somaini closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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