About Capital Eleven

Capital Eleven was founded in 2009 by Travis Hawkes and David K. Gardner who first met while they were both business students at Boise State University. As longtime entrepreneurs and operators themselves, Capital Eleven began through starting and building their own businesses that they still operate today. A deep conviction in the future of the Boise tech eco-system and a desire to help founders led them to start seed stage venture investing in January 2019. In the years that followed Capital Eleven built out a real estate investment and development team and a PE team to partner with operators on business acquisition. In early 2025 Capital Eleven Advisors was launched to offer a full suite of M&A advisory, strategi advisory, and corporate finance services.

Capital Eleven manages multiple Limited partnership investment opportunities across the varied asset classes including venture capital, real estate, fixed income, and private equity.

Capital Eleven is headquartered in Meridian, Idaho just west of Boise.