Kirk Manoogian

Partner at YL Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 16 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
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Mar 2026
Native is the Cloud Security Control Plane for the enterprise. We translate security outcomes directly into the built-in controls for each cloud, simulate the impact before deployment, and continuously keep those controls aligned as environments evolve. The result is security that is enforced at the architectural level. Security that is native to the environment, operational, and continuously adapting.
Seed Investor
Jan 2026
Novee is the AI penetration testing platform built to secure an environment that’s constantly changing against attackers operating at machine speed. It starts with true black-box testing, reasoning about your environment the way a real attacker would: uncovering novel vulnerabilities, business logic flaws, and chained attack paths continuously, not just at fixed points in time. Built by veteran offensive security operators, Novee’s AI models are purpose-trained on real attacker tradecraft and adapt as your environment evolves, getting smarter over time. And because finding risk isn’t enough, every issue is validated and paired with precise, personalized fixes tailored to your architecture, tech stack, and business logic- so teams can reduce real risk as fast as attackers create it.
Seed Investor
Nov 2025
Opti is an AI-native identity security platform built for enterprise IAM. Our platform automatically discovers, understands, and governs access relationships across your entire environment - human identities, non-human identities, and agentic AI - in one continuous program. Most identity governance tools were built for a world of static roles and periodic reviews. Opti is built for how enterprises actually operate today: thousands of applications, complex entitlements, and access decisions that cant wait for the next audit cycle. Opti normalizes identity data across 250+ application types, surfaces real risk in context, and closes the loop between governance decisions and remediation - without the manual overhead of legacy IGA. The only next-generation identity governance platform in the AWS Security Hub Extended program. Recognized by Gartner. Trusted by enterprise security teams.
Seed Investor
Oct 2024
MIND is on a mission to help organizations thrive in a digital world by protecting their most sensitive information. MIND is the first AI-native data security platform that puts data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot to autonomously find sensitive data, fix data risk issues and stop data leaks at machine speed across SaaS applications, Gen AI tools, endpoints, on-premises file shares and email systems. Our goal is to help our customers achieve Stress-Free DLP. The platform leverages MIND AI, our multi-layer classification engine, to analyze billions of data events in real-time, deliver context-aware risk assessments, enable automated remediation actions and block data loss on endpoints. We enable businesses to mind what really matters—their most sensitive data. Founded and led by cybersecurity leaders and industry veterans, MIND is based out of Seattle, WA. For more information, contact us at info@mind.io.
Seed Investor
Apr 2024
Miggo is the first Application Detection and Response (ADR) platform on a mission to stop application breaches. 80% of all cyber incidents happen in the application layer, however too many are being slipped by existing tools due to a blindspot to the actual application behavior. By using in-application runtime context, Miggo maps how applications actually operate in runtime, identifies high-risk application flows, pinpoints the weak spots, and provides real-time detection and response capabilities in the application layer.
Seed Investor
Jan 2024
Were now part of Cato Networks! Were as committed as ever to helping organizations secure their AI transformation by securing and governing every AI interaction, from 3rd party AI usage to homegrown AI-powered applications and agents. AI Security is available as part of the Cato Platform as either a stand-alone offering or in combination with other SASE capabilities. For all the latest - make sure to follow @cato-networks on LinkedIn or visit www.catonetworks.com
Seed Investor
Jul 2022
This company is now part of Okta! Stay connected by following Oktas Linkedin for the latest news and insights
Seed Investor
Feb 2022
Opus Security set out to transform vulnerability management by bringing automation and intelligence into one of the hardest problems in cybersecurity: remediation. Our platform was built around a fleet of AI-driven security agents designed to analyze, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities at scale. By embedding expertise into existing IT, engineering, and security workflows, Opus aimed to remove manual bottlenecks and make vulnerability management proactive, continuous, and seamless. The mission was simple: reduce backlog, eliminate wasted cycles, and help organizations stay ahead of risk with always-on security operations.
Seed Investor
Oct 2021
Delivering cloud data security to companies is what Eureka Security is all about. If you store sensitive data in clouds such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and Snowflake, our DSPM solution will help your security team understand where data is, the type of data it is, learn who and what can access it, and keep it continuously secure. Our SaaS platform is easy-to-deploy and can be spun up in minutes for actionability on day one. In an age where data breaches are occurring far too often and security leaders desperately need a real-time look at risks, our mission is to help our customers achieve their “Eureka!” moment - find and secure all data risks in the cloud without slowing down the business.
Seed Investor
Jun 2021
Piiano builds data security infrastructure for developers. Piiano Vault is developed by former IDF cybersecurity experts. Bringing together decades of experience in hacking, engineering and software management capabilities. Our innovative Vault runtime protection technology stops data theft in production environments. Talk to us to find out how!
Seed Investor
Jun 2021
Valence protects organizations from threats created by SaaS and AI sprawl. By unifying SaaS discovery, SSPM, AI security, and ITDR, Valence delivers the comprehensive coverage needed to find and fix SaaS and AI risks. The platform uncovers shadow AI and AI agents, flags misconfigurations before they become incidents, and detects unusual activity across human and service identities. Valence goes beyond visibility with one-click remediation, automated workflows, and guided collaboration to help security teams operationalize their SaaS and AI security programs. Trusted by leading organizations, Valence enables secure SaaS and AI adoption.
Seed Investor
Jan 2021
Grip Security is the industry-leading SaaS security platform, pioneering the way organizations identify, investigate, remediate, and automate SaaS and GenAI risks. Grip delivers complete control over every application, sanctioned or shadow, while driving cost savings by eliminating unnecessary accounts, duplicate deployments, and unused licenses.
Seed Investor
Aug 2020
Enso is the first Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) solution, helping security teams everywhere eliminate their AppSec chaos with application discovery, classification and management. Founded by application security experts, Enso easily deploys into enterprise environments to create an actionable, unified inventory of all application assets, their owners, security posture and associated risk. With Enso security, any AppSec team can build a simplified, agile and scalable application security program. For more information, visit enso.security. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/enso_security
Seed Investor
Sep 2019
Satori is a Data Security Platform (DSP) that enables self-service data and analytics. Unlike the traditional manual data access process, with Satori, users have a personal data portal where they can see all available datasets and gain immediate access to them. Satori’s DSP dynamically applies the appropriate security and access policies, and the users get secure data access in seconds instead of weeks. Satori’s comprehensive DSP manages access, permissions, security, and compliance policies - all from a single console. Satori continuously discovers sensitive data across data stores and dynamically tracks data usage while applying relevant security policies. Satori enables data teams to scale effective data usage across the organization while meeting all data security and compliance requirements.
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2026
Seed Investor
Mar 2026
Native is the Cloud Security Control Plane for the enterprise. We translate security outcomes directly into the built-in controls for each cloud, simulate the impact before deployment, and continuously keep those controls aligned as environments evolve. The result is security that is enforced at the architectural level. Security that is native to the environment, operational, and continuously adapting.
Seed Investor
Jan 2026
Novee is the AI penetration testing platform built to secure an environment that’s constantly changing against attackers operating at machine speed. It starts with true black-box testing, reasoning about your environment the way a real attacker would: uncovering novel vulnerabilities, business logic flaws, and chained attack paths continuously, not just at fixed points in time. Built by veteran offensive security operators, Novee’s AI models are purpose-trained on real attacker tradecraft and adapt as your environment evolves, getting smarter over time. And because finding risk isn’t enough, every issue is validated and paired with precise, personalized fixes tailored to your architecture, tech stack, and business logic- so teams can reduce real risk as fast as attackers create it.
2025
Seed Investor
Nov 2025
Opti is an AI-native identity security platform built for enterprise IAM. Our platform automatically discovers, understands, and governs access relationships across your entire environment - human identities, non-human identities, and agentic AI - in one continuous program. Most identity governance tools were built for a world of static roles and periodic reviews. Opti is built for how enterprises actually operate today: thousands of applications, complex entitlements, and access decisions that cant wait for the next audit cycle. Opti normalizes identity data across 250+ application types, surfaces real risk in context, and closes the loop between governance decisions and remediation - without the manual overhead of legacy IGA. The only next-generation identity governance platform in the AWS Security Hub Extended program. Recognized by Gartner. Trusted by enterprise security teams.
2024
Seed Investor
Oct 2024
MIND is on a mission to help organizations thrive in a digital world by protecting their most sensitive information. MIND is the first AI-native data security platform that puts data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot to autonomously find sensitive data, fix data risk issues and stop data leaks at machine speed across SaaS applications, Gen AI tools, endpoints, on-premises file shares and email systems. Our goal is to help our customers achieve Stress-Free DLP. The platform leverages MIND AI, our multi-layer classification engine, to analyze billions of data events in real-time, deliver context-aware risk assessments, enable automated remediation actions and block data loss on endpoints. We enable businesses to mind what really matters—their most sensitive data. Founded and led by cybersecurity leaders and industry veterans, MIND is based out of Seattle, WA. For more information, contact us at info@mind.io.
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