Yael Schiff
Vice President / Seed/Early
Tel Aviv, Israel

About Yael
Yael Schiff is a vice president in the Israel office, where she focuses primarily on early-stage companies, especially in AI infrastructure, AI applications, cyber, and data.
Prior to Bessemer, Yael was a GM at Via Transportation where her team led partnerships with cities and transit agencies. She was also a consultant at McKinsey and a line planner at Applied Materials earlier in her career.
Yael earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude a B.Sc. in industrial engineering from Tel-Aviv University. In her free time, she enjoys musicals and camping trips with her friends and family.
Latest News & Research
10 Total Posts
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The trailblazer in enterprise AI: Wonderful's $550M Series C
Since our initial seed check in 2025, Bessemer Venture Partners has backed Wonderful as the agentic operating layer for enterprises worldwide.

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Onyx Security: defining cybersecurity in the agentic era
Bessemer Venture Partners leads Onyx's $113M Series B to build the secure control plane for enterprise AI agents—a category poised to produce the largest cybersecurity company yet.

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Act: Proactive cloud security
Bessemer Venture Partners backs Act Security from seed to Series A—company emerges from stealth with $60M to eliminate the access paths behind security breaches in the AI era.

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Neo: securing AI agents at the endpoint
Bessemer Venture Partners leads Neo Security's $100M Series A to build AI security for the endpoint, giving enterprises real visibility and control over their agents.

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Backing QIZ Security: cryptographic posture management for the post-quantum era
Bessemer Venture Partners leads QIZ Security's $17 million seed round to help enterprises address and govern their cryptography ahead of “Q-Day.”

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Securing AI agents: the defining cybersecurity challenge of 2026
The rise of the agentic workforce is pushing CISOs to reimagine the security stack—and rethink the questions they need to ask—as they navigate an evolving threat landscape.







