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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14 May 2026
Most Organizations Now Use AI Agents for Sensitive Security Tasks
The majority (93%) of global organizations use or plan to use AI agents for security tasks such as password resets and VPN access despite the potential for serious breaches and data leaks, according to Semperis.
12 May 2026
AI is separating the companies built to scale from the ones built to sell
Startups are scaling faster, attackers are getting smarter, and investors are getting more selective. The cybersecurity industry is in the middle of a reset.
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.
Variance
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.
Variance
27 Mar 2026
Agentic AI talk dominates RSAC
"It's never been more important to understand tech as an investor."
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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