Yoav Leitersdorf

YL Ventures has been founded to address the changing venture capital financing landscape. We invest in high technology start-up companies and within a short timeframe merge and integrate them with global strategic acquirers that we know. We have unique and differentiated deal flow within Europe and Israel, facilitated by hundreds of individual contacts and acquainted organizations. We combine our capital with deep technology and market expertise, thereby facilitating a highly efficient model for technological innovation.

We achieve this strategy by identifying suitable portfolio companies with promising and advanced research and development projects that may fill product gaps and/or provide time-to-market advantages to a set of acquirers known to the fund. We seek to obtain substantial equity positions in each portfolio company by offering its shareholders and management team a path to liquidity far more certain than those offered by other venture capital firms. By leveraging our position within a portfolio company, we accelerate the evolution of the portfolio company's business by providing business development, technical and financial support and leadership. We locate potential acquirers as early as possible and negotiate for acquisition terms, such as earn-outs, that facilitate the relatively early sale of the portfolio company. In almost all cases, we aim to conceive exit strategies prior to initial investment, and in many cases acquirers will have been identified prior to going in.

YL Ventures is a venture capital boutique that invests in sectors that fall under its areas of expertise within the internet, telecommunications, and digital media software sectors. We deploy our capital in stages, with initial investments in portfolio companies of approximately €500,000 and up to approximately €2,000,000 reserved for future rounds of financing towards an acquisition.