Insights
Perspectives on cybersecurity trends, investing, and the forces reshaping the sector.
02 Apr 2026
This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC Managing Partner Jared Friedman talks to Karine Mellata, co-founder of Variance (W23), who is coming out of stealth and announcing their $21 million Series A.
31 Mar 2026
Why We Invested in Variance
At Ten Eleven Ventures, we specialize in cybersecurity investments, focusing on the intersection of new technologies and their secure deployment. Right now, few areas sit more squarely at that intersection than agentic AI, and we think that risk and trust operations — including fraud investigations, business investigations, enhanced due diligence, know-your-customer workflows, and know-your-business workflows — are becoming among the next most impactful spaces to deploy these powerful capabilities, with a large potential market of over $200Bn between various risk and trust use cases.
20 Mar 2026
SPACs are back and they’re coming for deep tech
There’s no shortage of VC money flowing into the technology, but to scale, companies are turning to the public markets—and the blank-cheque vehicles that access them.
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30 Apr 2025
AI's Role in Cybersecurity: VC Alex Doll Breaks It Down
Ten Eleven Ventures Managing Partner Alex Doll examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping both offensive and defensive cybersecurity capabilities, and what it means for enterprise security strategy. Doll shares his perspective on which AI-driven security companies are positioned to succeed and how investors are evaluating opportunities in the rapidly evolving AI security landscape.
15 Apr 2025
Macro Threats, Historic Hacks, and the Geopolitical Forces Shaping Cybersecurity: Highlights from the 2025 STAR Retreat
By Grace Cassy Ten Eleven Ventures recently hosted 40+ security professionals and several founders from our portfolio at our annual STAR Retreat.
24 Mar 2025
Breaking Down Silos: How Security and IT Teams Can Collaborate for Stronger, Faster Protection
Organizational silos create gaps, slow response times, and make it harder to turn insight into action.
Furl
18 Mar 2025
Why We Invested in VulnCheck
Obtaining and operationalizing the best vulnerability intelligence is a perennial challenge within cybersecurity. Vulnerability exploitation is the leading cause of data breaches, with exploitation time for new CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) now measured in days versus months.
VulnCheck
30 Jan 2025
Getting to Scale as a Specialist: Lessons from Semperis Reaching $100M ARR
There’s no shortage of debate in cybersecurity circles about securing enterprises in an increasingly complex digital landscape. In particular, one often hears about the need for consolidation and the discussion around “one platform for all” and “best-in-breed” solutions.
Semperis
20 Nov 2024
Why We Invested in Twine
Of all the possibilities that the GenAI era offers, one of the most impactful is the idea that this new technology will change the job market forever.
Twine
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