# Gur Talpaz

> Gur Talpaz is a seed investor at CrowdStrike backing Cyber Security. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CrowdStrike](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crowdstrike)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gur-talpaz-8251b61/

Gur Talpaz is a Director within the Equity Research group at Stifel, an investment banking and asset management firm headquartered in St. Louis. Based in New York, he focuses on the cybersecurity industry, with primary coverage of nearly all public names within the group. Within his coverage, he focuses heavily on emerging themes within the sectorand has written extensively on topics ranging from the changing endpoint market to the growing importance of identity within security as well as emerging trends such as IoT and ICS security.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 50% |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Network Security | 3 | 38% |
| Security | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series E | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Artemis | Artemis is the first protective layer that is AI-native | $55M | Series A | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Artemis | Artemis is the first protective layer that is AI-native | $15M | Seed | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Onit Security | Onit Security provides an AI-powered exposure management platform that focuses on decision-based security operations. The platform analyzes thousands of vulnerability and exposure cases, surfaces key decisions for security leaders, and turns those decisions into persistent operating rules across the environment. It uses agent-based automation tohandle triage, impact assessment, ownership assignment, and continuous remediation. Onit Security helps security teams reduce manual ticket handling, shorten remediation times, and connect findings from existing security tools to concrete fixes. It integrates with existing security stacks and targets enterprises that manage large volumes of vulnerabilities. | $11M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Corelight | Corelight offers network traffic analysis solutions for cybersecurity. It helps security professionals to understand network traffic and to detect and stop cyberattacks. Its solution was built on Bro, a widely-used open-source framework that provides a real-time understanding of network traffic.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquarteredin San Francisco, California. | $150M | Series E | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Nagomi Security | Nagomi is changing the way security teams balance risk and defense, empowering customers to focus on what matters now. By mapping customers’ existing security tools to the threats that matter and providing prescriptive remediation plans, the Nagomi Proactive Defense Platform finally makes it possible to optimize, measure, and maximize the ROI ofsecurity investments. By taking a threat-centered, data-driven, and actionable approach to risk and cybersecurity, customers are able to provide high-level cybersecurity maturity metrics to executives while simultaneously showing security practitioners exactly what to do to reduce risk, fix misconfigurations, and make strategic decisions with business context. Learn more at nagomi.security. | $23M | Series A | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| Aembit | Aembit is a cybersecurity company. It is an identity and access management control plane that allows users to centrally manage access from any client workload, AI agent, application, or microservice to all sensitive enterprise data and resources. Aembit authenticates workloads based on their identity and issues short-lived, just-in-time credentialsaccording to centrally managed policies. |  | Seed | Oct 31, 2023 |  |
| Silk Security | Silk Security is a platform that enables businesses to adopt a comprehensive strategy for addressing code, infrastructure, and application risk. It incorporates AI technology to automate prioritizing, combining, and contextualizing data from various detection systems. | $12.5M | Seed | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Cyclops Security | Cyclops Security develops cybersecurity solutions that help organizations identify and manage software vulnerabilities. The company focuses on application security, software supply chain protection, and improving security processes. | $6.4M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hetz Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hetz-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Lockstep — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Theory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theory-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## 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 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colin-black |
| 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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## FAQ

### What does Gur Talpaz invest in?

Gur Talpaz invests primarily in Cyber Security, Software and Network Security startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Gur Talpaz?

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### When did Gur Talpaz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gur Talpaz closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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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