George Kurtz
CEO and Founder @ CrowdStrike
San Jose, United States
George Kurtz is a seed investor at CrowdStrike in San Jose focused on Cyber Security and Software. George Kurtz is based out of Sunnyvale, California, and is the CEO, Founder, and Board Member of CrowdStrike and also a Member of the Board of Directors at Armadin Security. George previously worked at McAfee as a Worldwide Chief Technology Officer, GM, and EVP of Enterprise. George Kurtz attended Seton Hall University. George Kurtz has receivedthe Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2017 Award.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries George Kurtz invests in
Stages George Kurtz invests in
Countries George Kurtz invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $6M–$53M
- Series A
- $11M–$200M
- Series C
- $70M–$620M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cyber Security 8 (38%)
- Software 6 (29%)
- Security 5 (24%)
- Information Technology 5 (24%)
- Network Security 4 (19%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (33%)
- Series A 7 (33%)
- Series C 3 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 10 (48%)
- Israel 3 (14%)
- Canada 2 (10%)
- Sweden 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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June
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June operates an automated deployment and integration laboratory designed to stream-line complex enterprise transformations. Their core business model focuses on parsing buried legacy configurations into plain-language business rules independent of specific vendor platforms. By providing continuous agentic oversight, the platform enablesenterprises to securely roll out software, consolidate data pipelines, and deploy autonomous workflows without structural downtime. | $20M / Pre-Seed / Aug 03, 2026 | |
June.ai
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June.ai operates as a communication hub that replaces email. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in New York, New York. | $20M / Pre-Seed / Aug 03, 2026 | |
Pi Security
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Pi Security is an agentic AI-driven product security platform that enables organizations to automate security throughout the software development lifecycle, proactively uncover risks, strengthen compliance, and accelerate secure software delivery. | $25M / Series A / Jun 10, 2026 | |
JetStream Security
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JetStream Security is a platform for enterprise AI governance and security designed to manage, safeguard, and expand agentic AI in manufacturing. JetStream allows teams to define and approve AI behavior, ties all actions together, and offers continuous AI visibility across models, agents, copilots, tools, and processes. | $34M / Seed / Mar 03, 2026 | |
Doppel
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Doppel is an AI-native security platform that helps organizations defend against social engineering risks and digital impersonation. It continuously monitors threats across multiple channels, including domains, social media, paid advertising, messaging apps, and the dark web, then maps those threats into a real-time threat graph to identifyattacker infrastructure. Doppel’s platform automates threat takedowns using AI and expert analysis, while its simulation product generates realistic, multi-step phishing scenarios to test and train employees across email, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and more. Through its tools, Doppel enables proactive defense by disrupting malicious campaigns and building human resilience to modern, AI-driven attacks. | $70M / Series C / Nov 19, 2025 | |
Zania
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Autonomous AI agents for Security Risk and Compliance | $18M / Series A / Sep 30, 2025 | |
Lovable
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Lovable builds software that builds software. Lovable vision is to unlock human creativity by enabling anyone to create software. | $200M / Series A / Jul 17, 2025 | |
Tailscale
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Tailscale develops a software-defined networking platform that simplifies the creation of secure private networks using the WireGuard protocol. Its solution enables devices to connect directly through peer-to-peer mesh networking, reducing latency and eliminating the need for traditional VPN configurations. The platform integrates with existingidentity providers, allowing for streamlined user authentication and access control. Tailscale supports various operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, and offers compatibility with cloud services and Kubernetes environments. The company emphasizes ease of use and scalability, catering to teams and organizations seeking straightforward network security solutions. Tailscale builds on top of WireGuard’s Noise protocol encryption, a peer-reviewed and trusted standard. Their vision is to remove overhead and complexity from this long tail of software and operational problems that people face every day. | $161.4M / Series C / Apr 08, 2025 | |
Minimus
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Gutsy applies process mining to security to give enterprises. | $51M / Seed / Oct 10, 2023 | |
Descope
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Descope enables any developer to create secure, frictionless authentication and user journeys for any application. It intends to make customer identity a business enabler. | $53M / Seed / Feb 15, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About CrowdStrike
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.
CrowdStrike Contacts
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Colin Black
Chief Operating Officer
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Daniel Bernard
Chief Business Officer
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George Kurtz
CEO and Founder
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Greg Foss
Manager, Falcon OverWatch
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Gur Talpaz
VP, Corporate Development
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FAQ
What does George Kurtz invest in?
George Kurtz invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is George Kurtz's check size?
George Kurtz typically joins rounds of $6M–$53M at Seed, $11M–$200M at Series A and $70M–$620M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds George Kurtz participates in.
When did George Kurtz last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for George Kurtz closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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