TenEleven Ventures

TenEleven Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm founded in 2014, dedicated to supporting early-stage investments in cybersecurity companies. The firm specializes in identifying and nurturing technology-facing businesses within the cybersecurity sector, aiming to foster their growth and success. By concentrating exclusively on this niche market, TenEleven Ventures positions itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, providing targeted resources and expertise to help these companies thrive.

Kaiti Delaney

Principal

Alex Doll

Founder / Managing General Partner

Dixon R. Doll

Partner

Brian Draves

Partner and COO

Mark Hatfield

Founder / General Partner

Past deals in Network Security

Ordr

Series C in 2022
Ordr is a technology company that specializes in Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions designed for hyper-connected enterprises. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine that maps the device flow genome at scale. The company's platform employs machine learning to continuously inspect, classify, and establish baseline behaviors for each device within an organization. This unique software architecture enables real-time processing of large data volumes, allowing for closed-loop security. By generating tailored security policies for various device classes, Ordr integrates these measures with existing multi-vendor network and security infrastructures, helping organizations effectively manage and protect their business-critical devices and systems.

Noetic Cyber

Series A in 2021
Noetic Cyber provides a proactive approach to cyber asset and controls management, empowering security teams to see, understand, fix and improve their security posture and enterprise ecosystem.

NetSPI

Private Equity Round in 2021
NetSPI specializes in providing comprehensive threat and vulnerability management solutions by integrating managed services, application and network assessments, and advisory services. With over 15 years of expertise in penetration testing and security, the company utilizes its CorrelatedVM™ platform to enhance IT security for clients across various sectors, including financial services, technology, healthcare, and retail. By identifying, addressing, and preventing threats before they can disrupt operations, NetSPI aims to improve visibility and eliminate security blind spots, thereby safeguarding critical assets. The firm's approach emphasizes the strategic alignment of personnel, processes, and technology to ensure effective security management across client portfolios.

Axis Security

Series C in 2021
Axis Security Inc. is a private application access company founded in 2018 and based in California. It specializes in a zero-trust cloud security platform that enables organizations to manage access for employees, partners, and stakeholders securely. Through its innovative Application Isolation Technology, Axis Security ensures that users have access only to the necessary resources, minimizing excess access and associated risks. This approach transforms open networks and vulnerable applications into secure resources, allowing businesses to operate and expand with confidence. The company's focus on cloud security and analytics solutions positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

Cyware

Series B in 2021
Cyware Labs Inc. develops and provides comprehensive threat intelligence solutions designed to enhance cybersecurity for enterprises, information sharing and analysis centers, managed security service providers, and government agencies. The company offers several key platforms, including the Cyware Situational Awareness Platform (CSAP), which aggregates threat alerts and facilitates information sharing to improve situational awareness. Another major offering is the Cyware Threat Intelligence eXchange (CTIX), a client-server platform that enables the ingestion, enrichment, and bi-directional sharing of threat data within trusted networks. Additionally, the Cyware Fusion and Threat Response (CFTR) platform automates cyber threat responses through advanced orchestration, while the Cyware Security Orchestration Layer (CSOL) serves as a universal gateway for executing security tasks efficiently. Cyware's technology aims to enhance collaboration, increase threat visibility, and reduce operational costs, ultimately addressing the growing challenges posed by sophisticated cyber threats. Founded in 2016, Cyware Labs is headquartered in New York City.

Axis Security

Series B in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a private application access company founded in 2018 and based in California. It specializes in a zero-trust cloud security platform that enables organizations to manage access for employees, partners, and stakeholders securely. Through its innovative Application Isolation Technology, Axis Security ensures that users have access only to the necessary resources, minimizing excess access and associated risks. This approach transforms open networks and vulnerable applications into secure resources, allowing businesses to operate and expand with confidence. The company's focus on cloud security and analytics solutions positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

Valid Network, Ltd.

Seed Round in 2020
Valid Network was built on the understanding that Blockchain (Distributed Ledger Technology) has the potential to change how we do business globally and have a huge impact on our day to day life. We founded Valid Network with the mission to become the enablers of faster adoption of blockchain technology for our customers. Your blockchain security platform is the world’s first and most comprehensive solution for securing, assuring and enabling decentralized applications.

Axis Security

Series A in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a private application access company founded in 2018 and based in California. It specializes in a zero-trust cloud security platform that enables organizations to manage access for employees, partners, and stakeholders securely. Through its innovative Application Isolation Technology, Axis Security ensures that users have access only to the necessary resources, minimizing excess access and associated risks. This approach transforms open networks and vulnerable applications into secure resources, allowing businesses to operate and expand with confidence. The company's focus on cloud security and analytics solutions positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

Ordr

Series B in 2019
Ordr is a technology company that specializes in Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions designed for hyper-connected enterprises. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine that maps the device flow genome at scale. The company's platform employs machine learning to continuously inspect, classify, and establish baseline behaviors for each device within an organization. This unique software architecture enables real-time processing of large data volumes, allowing for closed-loop security. By generating tailored security policies for various device classes, Ordr integrates these measures with existing multi-vendor network and security infrastructures, helping organizations effectively manage and protect their business-critical devices and systems.

Digital Shadows

Series C in 2019
Digital Shadows Ltd. is a cyber threat intelligence company that specializes in protecting organizations from data loss and targeted cyber attacks. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, with an office in Dallas, the company offers a suite of services designed to identify and mitigate digital risks. Its key products include Data SearchLight, which detects data loss and leaked information; Threat SearchLight, which monitors hostile groups to provide insights on potential attacks; and Brand Protect, which alerts organizations to damaging online mentions of their brands. Additionally, VIP Protect focuses on personal security threats, while the company also maintains a certified register of ethical security testers. Digital Shadows serves a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and national security, helping clients discover sensitive data exposure across various platforms. The company has established a strategic partnership with Lockpath, Inc., enhancing its capabilities in digital risk management.

KnowBe4

Series C in 2019
KnowBe4 is a platform focused on security awareness training and simulated phishing attacks, aimed at addressing the challenges posed by social engineering. The company offers an Automated Security Awareness Program that allows organizations to develop customized training programs, along with Active Directory Integration for streamlined user management. This integrated approach enables users to conduct training and phishing simulations, track improvements in their vulnerability to phishing attacks, and obtain measurable outcomes. Founded with the belief that the human aspect of cybersecurity is often overlooked, KnowBe4 recognizes the lack of a national security strategy to protect private organizations, particularly small and medium enterprises, from cyber threats. The company emphasizes that traditional antivirus solutions alone are inadequate for comprehensive network security, advocating for a more holistic strategy that includes robust user education and awareness. Additionally, KnowBe4 Ventures invests in companies that enhance the human element of cybersecurity.

Ionic Security

Series E in 2019
Ionic Security, a data security platform, provides access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management. Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress) enables the use of cloud services by protecting sensitive data anywhere it travels and wherever it resides, whether on the corporate network, in the cloud or on mobile devices. The first unified data security platform of its kind, Ionic Security takes a comprehensive approach to secure data in today’s borderless enterprise by providing access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management, without proxies or gateways or changes in user behavior. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and is backed by leading venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, TechOperators, and ff VC as well as industry experts Christopher Klaus, Ken Levine, Phil Dunkelberger, and Dr. Paul Judge.

Ordr

Series A in 2019
Ordr is a technology company that specializes in Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions designed for hyper-connected enterprises. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, Ordr develops an AI-based systems control engine that maps the device flow genome at scale. The company's platform employs machine learning to continuously inspect, classify, and establish baseline behaviors for each device within an organization. This unique software architecture enables real-time processing of large data volumes, allowing for closed-loop security. By generating tailored security policies for various device classes, Ordr integrates these measures with existing multi-vendor network and security infrastructures, helping organizations effectively manage and protect their business-critical devices and systems.

OffSec

Private Equity Round in 2018
Provider of continuous professional and workforce development, training, and education for cybersecurity practitioners. The company's distinct pedagogy and practical, hands-on learning help organizations fill the infosec talent gap by training their teams on today's most critical skills, its Learning Library featuring 7,000 hours of content, including over 1,800 videos, and 4,200+ labs, helps demonstrates its commitment to empowering individuals and organizations to fight cyber threats with indispensable cybersecurity skills and resources also funds and maintains Kali Linux, the leading operating system for penetration testing, ethical hacking, and network security assessments,more

Optiv

Venture Round in 2017
Optiv is a cyber security solutions provider in North America that help clients plan, build and run successful cyber security programs. Created in 2015 from the merger of Accuvant and FishNet Security, the company is committed in helping businesses, governments and educational institutions plan, build and run successful security programs through the right combination of products, services and solutions related to security program strategy, enterprise risk and consulting, threat and vulnerability management, enterprise incident management, security architecture and implementation, training, identity and access management, and managed security.

GoSecure

Series C in 2016
GoSecure is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cybersecurity, cloud security, and network security. The CounterTack Platform delivers predictive multi-vector detection, prevention, and response. GoSecure provides a detection and response platform that delivers predictive multi-vector detection, prevention, and response by applying a combination of behavioral analysis, memory forensics, machine learning, and reputational techniques to counter the most advanced threats.

Digital Shadows

Series B in 2016
Digital Shadows Ltd. is a cyber threat intelligence company that specializes in protecting organizations from data loss and targeted cyber attacks. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, with an office in Dallas, the company offers a suite of services designed to identify and mitigate digital risks. Its key products include Data SearchLight, which detects data loss and leaked information; Threat SearchLight, which monitors hostile groups to provide insights on potential attacks; and Brand Protect, which alerts organizations to damaging online mentions of their brands. Additionally, VIP Protect focuses on personal security threats, while the company also maintains a certified register of ethical security testers. Digital Shadows serves a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and national security, helping clients discover sensitive data exposure across various platforms. The company has established a strategic partnership with Lockpath, Inc., enhancing its capabilities in digital risk management.

GoSecure

Series C in 2015
GoSecure is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cybersecurity, cloud security, and network security. The CounterTack Platform delivers predictive multi-vector detection, prevention, and response. GoSecure provides a detection and response platform that delivers predictive multi-vector detection, prevention, and response by applying a combination of behavioral analysis, memory forensics, machine learning, and reputational techniques to counter the most advanced threats.

Digital Shadows

Series A in 2015
Digital Shadows Ltd. is a cyber threat intelligence company that specializes in protecting organizations from data loss and targeted cyber attacks. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, with an office in Dallas, the company offers a suite of services designed to identify and mitigate digital risks. Its key products include Data SearchLight, which detects data loss and leaked information; Threat SearchLight, which monitors hostile groups to provide insights on potential attacks; and Brand Protect, which alerts organizations to damaging online mentions of their brands. Additionally, VIP Protect focuses on personal security threats, while the company also maintains a certified register of ethical security testers. Digital Shadows serves a diverse range of sectors, including financial services, healthcare, and national security, helping clients discover sensitive data exposure across various platforms. The company has established a strategic partnership with Lockpath, Inc., enhancing its capabilities in digital risk management.