Israeli startup BlazeMeter, a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. I’ve contacted Blazemeter’s CEO Alon Girmonsky, to learn more about the product and the load-testing market. VC Cafe: In very simple terms, what is BlazeMeter and what do you enable …
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Israeli startup 6scan today announced it has raised an undisclosed A round led by YL Ventures. 6scan, still in stealth mode, offers a protection suite for website through its 6scan Patrol and 6scan Bodyguard products. It acts like a white hat hacker, monitoring sites for known and unknown threats for $10 a month.
AcceloWeb, an Israeli startup formerly known as Fasterweb, has been acquired by Limelight Networks (Nasdaq:LLNW) for undisclosed terms. Acceloweb develops technology that helps increase the load time of websites, a need that has been growing as applications migrate to the cloud. Following the deal Acceloweb will become Limelight’s development center in Israel.
Earlier this week YL Ventures announced a 7-figure USD investment in Israel-based Seculert, a new non-intrusive Security-as-a-Service that comprehensively detects cyber threats affecting corporate networks.
Last week I caught up with Yoav Leitersdorf at the Red Herring Conference in Seattle and asked him about his fund and its unique exit strategy. We also talked about Yoav’s connection to Israel and the companies he’s currently looking for all across Europe. Yoav is an Israeli technologist and serial entrepreneur who founded, grew …
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I ran across Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf in the Red Herring Global conference in Seattle. Yoav is Israeli, and a managing partner of YL Ventures, a boutique European venture capital fund focused on early stage high tech companies. The fund will announce it’s first investment this morning and the news will be publicly available later today. …
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