Our Mission
100% Security Alert Coverage.
TENEX.AI
TENEX was founded to solve the hardest problem in enterprise security: the coverage gap. Not because analysts aren't talented, but because human-speed triage can never match machine-speed attacks.
100%
of alerts triaged, every day
<1 min
to triage a tier-1 alert
98%
confirmed-positive disposition
44%
noise reduction at Tier 0
6.2x
analyst efficiency
92%
human-AI alignment
4,000+
detection rules maintained
300+
integrations across the threat lifecycle
8+ yrs
average analyst experience
#1
fastest-growing, IT-Harvest 2026 Cyber 150
Our point of view
AI attacks don't wait for human analysts. Fully-Agentic, Human-Led Security Operations closes the gap between machine-speed threats and human-scale response.
AI Attacks scale exponentially. Human resources scale linearly. Attackers exploit the gap. That is the impossible math, and every conventional answer, more tooling, more outsourcing, more headcount, makes it worse. We built the alternative: agents that own the volume, and accountable experts who own the judgment.
Built by the People Who Built the Standard.
We didn't partner with the platform vendors. Our founding engineers created Google Chronicle, now Google SecOps, and our operators have scaled MDR businesses before.
Chronicle founders
The founding engineers of Google Chronicle build the agentic platform. Detection content, data pipelines, and hyperscaler behavior are not reverse-engineered here; they were designed by this team.
4,000+ detection rules
Operators, not resellers
A former Fortune 50 CISO and the MDR leaders who scaled prior providers sit behind every service decision, from SLO design to escalation paths.
Named clients across Fortune 200 and 500
Named, accountable analysts
Every escalation is owned by a named analyst averaging 8+ years of experience. Zero offshore handoffs, on every plan, without exception.
92% human-AI alignment
Led by Operators.
The founding team has built, scaled, and sold security operations businesses before — and built the platforms they ran on.
Eric Foster
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Co-founded Cyderes and led it as President through the merger with Herjavec Group. Three-time CISO (UMB Financial, Netsmart), early executive at RiskIQ and President at Stairwell.
Ryan Shreve
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer
Founding executive at Fishtech Group and CFO & COO of Cyderes. Previously CFO at FireMon and Controller at Garmin.
Edwin Solis
Co-founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Former head of Security Sales for Google Cloud Security and Director of Sales at ProtectWise.
Venkata Koppaka
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Founding engineer of Google’s core SecOps stack. Leads the team building the agentic platform.
Elias Manousos
Chairman
Former Microsoft CVP responsible for AI Copilot for Security and Threat Intelligence; former CEO of RiskIQ. General Partner, Manousos Investments; Venture Partner, Shield Capital.
How We Operate Internally.
Five principles that decide how we run the company, hire, and answer a customer at 3am.
Customer First
We measure by customer outcomes, not internal activity.
Raise Your Hand
Speak up early. Ask questions. Help others. No surprises.
Constant Improvement
Make it work, then make it better. Automate the painful.
Transparency Builds Trust
Show the work. No black boxes. No lock-in, ever.
Speed Rules
Hours and minutes matter in cyber. Urgency without chaos.
Backed to Build the Category.
The MDR market reaches $19B by 2031 at 24.8% CAGR. We are resourced to lead it rather than follow it.
Investors
Footprint
Sarasota, FL
Headquarters
Overland Park, KS
Operations
San Jose, CA
Engineering
Phoenix, AZ
Operations
Serving enterprise customers across the Google and Microsoft security ecosystems, with 300+ technology partners across the threat lifecycle.
Who We Serve.
Two profiles, the same impossible math, the same answer.
Enterprise
- 5,000+ employees, 100+ TB annual ingestion
- Complex mix of legacy and cloud-native systems
- Standardizing on Google or Microsoft security
- Needs measurable ROI at the board level
Mid-market
- 500 to 5,000 employees, IT-led security
- CIO or Head of IT as decision-maker
- Same impossible math, fewer resources
- No dedicated CISO organization
About TENEX
TENEX.ai is the leader in agentic-native, human-led security operations and a next-generation MDR provider built by operators who have scaled MDR before, with founding engineers from Google Chronicle and leading AI labs. TENEX serves enterprise customers across the Google and Microsoft security ecosystems.
The TENEX AI-native, human-led agentic SOC platform autonomously triages, investigates, hunts, and responds to threats, with elite human analysts always in the loop, combining the speed and scale of AI with the accountability of human-led security operations.
Media contact: press@tenex.ai
Every Alert.Every Threat.Fully-Agentic.
TENEX goes live inside the environment you already own, with a Forward Deployed Engineer embedded on your team.