# Colin Black

> Colin Black is a startup investor at CrowdStrike (Carlsbad). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CrowdStrike](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowdstrike)
- Location: Carlsbad, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinablack

Colin Black is a startup investor at CrowdStrike in Carlsbad. As CrowdStrike's chief operating officer, Colin Black oversees IT, Information Security, Customer Success, and Facilities at CrowdStrike. He and his team work across the globe to build a growing, scalable, and customer focused company.As a customer of CrowdStrike before he joined the company, Colin brings his passion for cyber security andperspective as a security purchaser and user to this important role. With more than 25 years of experience in the technology space, he has served in leadership positions with Kratos Defense and Security, Inc., Cymer, Inc., and Mindspeed Technologies. His background spans IT, global ops, manufacturing, facilities, and running a $500m service business.Colin began his career as a quantum physicist and graduated from Glasgow University in Scotland with a bachelor of science in Electronics Engineering, specializing in Nano-Electronics.

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## About CrowdStrike

VC Fund · Sunnyvale, United States

CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader, and has redefined modern security with one of the world’s advanced cloud-native platforms for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leveragesreal-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft, and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting, and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity, and immediate time-to-value.

5 contacts available at CrowdStrike.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Colin Black | Chief Operating Officer | — |
| Daniel Bernard | Chief Business Officer | — |
| George Kurtz | CEO and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-kurtz |
| Greg Foss | Manager, Falcon OverWatch | — |
| Gur Talpaz | VP, Corporate Development | — |

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