Brian Draves

Partner & COO at Ten Eleven Ventures

📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2021
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Jul 2021
Noetic breaks the cycle of burdensome cyber asset management with a centralized platform that empowers security and risk teams to see, understand and optimize their security posture. Founded in 2019 by the pioneers of Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), Noetics powerful cyber asset attack surface management platform flips the script on cyber asset and controls management. For the first time, organizations can achieve the level of visibility they need to truly understand all of their assets and entities—regardless of where they live with Noetics flexible, contextual dashboards that highlight critical issues and accelerate resolution.
Investor in Cado Security
Oct 2020
Cado Security is the provider of the first investigation and response automation platform focused on revolutionizing incident response for the hybrid world. Cado significantly reduces response times by automating the capture, processing, and analysis of data residing in cloud, container, serverless, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Only Cado empowers security teams to add critical context to everyday security investigations on any system. Anywhere. Anytime.
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May 2020
Immuta is The Data Provisioning Company, helping organizations safely and intelligently deliver governed data access to every consumer, human or AI. Since 2015, we’ve helped Fortune 500 companies and government agencies automate data provisioning at enterprise scale. As data demand surges and AI adoption accelerates, manual ticketing systems can’t keep up. Immuta removes these bottlenecks by automating the entire access lifecycle, from policy enforcement to request handling, delivery, audit, and recertification. What Immuta Does - Automates data provisioning by policy (birthright) and by request (governed self-service). - Writes policies once, enforces everywhere with native integrations across warehouses, storage, BI, and catalogs. - Delivers secure access in minutes, not months while maintaining continuous compliance. - Supports humans and AI agents that need governed data at machine speed. How We Help - Faster time-to-data: Reduce access delays from weeks to minutes with automated approvals and birthright access. - Less manual governance: Eliminate repetitive policy work and ticket triage for IT, stewards, and data owners. - Continuous compliance: Unified audit + automated recertification keep access accurate over time. - AI-ready provisioning: Governed access for LLMs, agents, and machine-driven workflows. Core Provisioning Workflows - Policy Authoring: Write once, enforce everywhere. Go from weeks of engineering to minutes. - Data Identification & Classification: Auto-detect and tag sensitive data to drive decisions. - Access Request Management: Governed self-service with automated approvals. - Behavior Monitoring: Detect unusual or risky access patterns in real time. - Unified Audit: See who accessed what, when, and why, in minutes, not days. The Outcome Organizations unlock data faster, reduce risk, and scale AI safely, with governed access delivered at the speed of need.
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Apr 2020
Kasada is the most effective and easiest way to defend against advanced persistent bot attacks across web, mobile, and API channels. With Kasada, trust in the Internet is restored by foiling even the stealthiest cyber threats, from credential abuse to data scraping. The solution invisibly stops automated threats while inflicting financial damage to attackers, destroying their ROI. With the ability to onboard in minutes, Kasada ensures immediate and long-lasting protection while empowering enterprises with optimal online activity. Kasada is based in New York and Sydney, with offices in Melbourne, San Francisco, and London. For more information, please visit www.kasada.io and follow on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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Mar 2020
At Axis we believe in a world in which workplace connectivity is always secure and seamless. Through our Security Services Edge (SSE) platform comprised of over 350 points of presence, and our policy tagging system, we make securing access to business resources impossibly simple. By doing so, customers like Nvidia, Kayak, and Copart, are able to make hybrid work simple, turn digital experience into a competitive advantage, and can better protect their data from cyber threats – even as it moves to cloud.
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Oct 2019
Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and with offices in the US, UK, Mexico, Brazil, Poland and Colombia, buguroo helps protect more than 50 million banking customers across the world from online fraud. The company’s flagship anti-fraud solution, bugFraud, utilizes Deep Learning technology combined with behavioral biometrics, device assessment and advanced malware detection to create a unique profile of each customer, enabling banks to continuously check that the user is who they claim to be and is not being manipulated by fraudsters. It offers anti-fraud protection at all parts of the customer journey, from login to logout and during the onboarding process. Specializing in anti-fraud solutions since 2015, buguroo’s investors include Ten Eleven Ventures, Seaya Ventures, Inveready Technology Investment Group and Conexo Ventures. For more information, visit www.buguroo.com
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Jun 2019
Vulcan Cyber® breaks down organizational cyber risk into measurable, manageable processes to help security teams go beyond their scan data and actually reduce risk. With powerful prioritization, orchestration and mitigation capabilities, the Vulcan Cyber risk management SaaS platform provides clear solutions to help manage risk effectively. Vulcan enhances teams existing cyber environments by connecting with all the tools they already use, supporting every stage of the cyber security lifecycle across cloud, IT and application attack surfaces. The unique capability of the Vulcan Cyber platform has garnered Vulcan recognition as a 2019 Gartner Cool Vendor and as a 2020 RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox finalist.
Investor
Mar 2019
In the hyper-connected enterprise, in which every "thing" from IT, IoT, IoMT and OT devices to complex multi-million-dollar cyber physical systems are connected, traditional security solutions simply aren't effective at discovering them and cannot scale to secure them. With Ordr, you can secure every connected asset everywhere with an agentless approach. Ordr delivers granular visibility on every connected asset with granular details such as make, model, serial number, network connectivity and more. Next, Ordr fully profiles device behavior and risks at massive scale, using an integrated IDS and machine learning engine. Finally, Ordr automates action with proactive, reactive and retrospective policies. Ordr is deployed in leading healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail and government organizations worldwide to address the following use cases: - real-time asset visibility - vulnerability management - compliance - threat detection and response - IoT and OT security - Zero Trust segmentation - NAC (Cisco ISE and Aruba Clearpass) acceleration Ordr has been selected as the KLAS Healthcare IoT Leader for four years, is a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for CyberPhysical Systems, is in three Gartner Hype Cycles for Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management, and is a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for Medical Device Security Solutions. We have won numerous awards including SInet16, Evanta Innovation Summit, and CRN Tech Innovator 2021. We are funded by Battery Ventures, TenEleven Ventures and Wing Venture Capital, along with Mayo Clinic Ventures and Kaiser Permanente Ventures
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Jan 2019
Sonrai Security delivers enterprise cloud security for the public cloud. Powered by our cloud identity graph, Sonrai combines workload, platform, identity, and data security in one platform. Best practices, workflow, advisors, and automation supports amazing cross-team cloud security operations. Our mission is to unearth, prioritize and remove risks across every part of a customer's public cloud. Sonrai Security has offices in New York and New Brunswick, Canada and is backed by ISTARI, Menlo Ventures, Polaris Partners, and TenEleven Ventures. For more information, visit https://sonraisecurity.com/.
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Aug 2018
Digital Shadows, a ReliaQuest company, minimizes digital risk by identifying unwanted exposure and protecting against external threats. Organizations can suffer regulatory fines, loss of intellectual property, and reputational damage when digital risk is left unmanaged. Digital Shadows SearchLight™ helps you minimize these risks by detecting data loss, securing your online brand, and reducing your attack surface. To learn more and get free access to SearchLight, visit www.digitalshadows.com.
Investor
Aug 2018
Weve moved! Follow us at BlackBerry for the latest on BlackBerry Spark, Unified Endpoint Security, Unified Endpoint Management, and more! https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackberry/
Investor
Aug 2018
The cyber landscape continues to grow in complexity as adversaries become increasingly sophisticated and rapidly morph their tactics. To outmaneuver motivated attackers, organizations need continuous security validation technology powered by timely and relevant intelligence. Mandiant Solutions, part of FireEye, brings together the world’s leading Threat Intelligence and front-line incident response data with the only continuous security validation platform on the market to arm organizations with the tools needed to increase security effectiveness and reduce business risk while protecting their reputation and economic value.
Investor
Aug 2018
JASK is modernizing security operations by delivering an advanced SIEM platform that provides better visibility, better automation and a better architecture. Built on cloud-native technologies, the JASK ASOC platform streamlines security analyst workflows by automating many of the repetitive tasks that restrict productivity, freeing them for higher-value roles like threat hunting and vulnerability management, while addressing the escalating talent shortage.
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Aug 2018
Darktrace is a global leader in AI cybersecurity, providing the essential cybersecurity platform to secure organizations today and for an ever-changing future. Darktrace AI learns from each businesss unique data in real time, detecting threats and intervening against attacks with precision and speed. We are a diverse and inclusive team of over 2,400 employees, each playing a crucial role in protecting nearly 10,000 organizations and communities worldwide from known, unknown, and novel cyber-threats.
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Aug 2018
Optiv Security is the cyber advisory and solutions leader, delivering strategic and technical expertise to nearly 6,000 companies across every major industry. We partner with organizations to advise, deploy and operate cybersecurity programs from strategy and managed security services to risk, integration and technology solutions. With clients at the center of our unmatched ecosystem of people, products, partners and programs, we accelerate business progress like no other company can. We manage cyber risk so you can secure your full potential.
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2021
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Jul 2021
Noetic breaks the cycle of burdensome cyber asset management with a centralized platform that empowers security and risk teams to see, understand and optimize their security posture. Founded in 2019 by the pioneers of Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), Noetics powerful cyber asset attack surface management platform flips the script on cyber asset and controls management. For the first time, organizations can achieve the level of visibility they need to truly understand all of their assets and entities—regardless of where they live with Noetics flexible, contextual dashboards that highlight critical issues and accelerate resolution.
2020
Investor in Cado Security
Oct 2020
Cado Security is the provider of the first investigation and response automation platform focused on revolutionizing incident response for the hybrid world. Cado significantly reduces response times by automating the capture, processing, and analysis of data residing in cloud, container, serverless, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Only Cado empowers security teams to add critical context to everyday security investigations on any system. Anywhere. Anytime.
Investor
May 2020
Immuta is The Data Provisioning Company, helping organizations safely and intelligently deliver governed data access to every consumer, human or AI. Since 2015, we’ve helped Fortune 500 companies and government agencies automate data provisioning at enterprise scale. As data demand surges and AI adoption accelerates, manual ticketing systems can’t keep up. Immuta removes these bottlenecks by automating the entire access lifecycle, from policy enforcement to request handling, delivery, audit, and recertification. What Immuta Does - Automates data provisioning by policy (birthright) and by request (governed self-service). - Writes policies once, enforces everywhere with native integrations across warehouses, storage, BI, and catalogs. - Delivers secure access in minutes, not months while maintaining continuous compliance. - Supports humans and AI agents that need governed data at machine speed. How We Help - Faster time-to-data: Reduce access delays from weeks to minutes with automated approvals and birthright access. - Less manual governance: Eliminate repetitive policy work and ticket triage for IT, stewards, and data owners. - Continuous compliance: Unified audit + automated recertification keep access accurate over time. - AI-ready provisioning: Governed access for LLMs, agents, and machine-driven workflows. Core Provisioning Workflows - Policy Authoring: Write once, enforce everywhere. Go from weeks of engineering to minutes. - Data Identification & Classification: Auto-detect and tag sensitive data to drive decisions. - Access Request Management: Governed self-service with automated approvals. - Behavior Monitoring: Detect unusual or risky access patterns in real time. - Unified Audit: See who accessed what, when, and why, in minutes, not days. The Outcome Organizations unlock data faster, reduce risk, and scale AI safely, with governed access delivered at the speed of need.
Investor
Apr 2020
Kasada is the most effective and easiest way to defend against advanced persistent bot attacks across web, mobile, and API channels. With Kasada, trust in the Internet is restored by foiling even the stealthiest cyber threats, from credential abuse to data scraping. The solution invisibly stops automated threats while inflicting financial damage to attackers, destroying their ROI. With the ability to onboard in minutes, Kasada ensures immediate and long-lasting protection while empowering enterprises with optimal online activity. Kasada is based in New York and Sydney, with offices in Melbourne, San Francisco, and London. For more information, please visit www.kasada.io and follow on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Investor
Mar 2020
At Axis we believe in a world in which workplace connectivity is always secure and seamless. Through our Security Services Edge (SSE) platform comprised of over 350 points of presence, and our policy tagging system, we make securing access to business resources impossibly simple. By doing so, customers like Nvidia, Kayak, and Copart, are able to make hybrid work simple, turn digital experience into a competitive advantage, and can better protect their data from cyber threats – even as it moves to cloud.
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