Gerhard Eschelbeck - Crunchbase Person Profile

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Location Mountain View, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast
Gender Male

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Gerhard Eschelbeck is based out of Mountain View, California and is the Chief Security Officer of Kodiak Robotics and also Board Member of Terra Security. Gerhard previously worked at Google as CISO. Gerhard Eschelbeck attended the University of Linz.

Personal Investments

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investments. Their latest investment was

Seed Round - Archestra.AI

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Archestra.AI	—	Seed Round - Archestra.AI	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Empirical Security	—	Seed Round - Empirical Security	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Terra Security	—	Seed Round - Terra Security	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Knostic	—	Seed Round - Knostic	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Cyberhaven	—	Series C - Cyberhaven	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Sweet Security	—	Seed Round - Sweet Security	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	DevOcean	—	Seed Round - DevOcean	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Fleet Device Management	—	Seed Round - Fleet Device Management	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Zenity	—	Seed Round - Zenity	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	1Password	—	Series B - 1Password	obfuscated obfuscation

Exits

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DevOcean

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exits. Their most notable exits are

DevOcean

Armorblox

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Altitude Networks

DevOcean DevOcean is the leader in Cybersecurity Exposure Remediation
Armorblox Armorblox uses deep learning and natural language technologies to protect enterprise communications.
Altitude Networks Altitude Networks provides a cloud native DLP to protect Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace data from accidental loss or malicious theft.

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Gerhard Eschelbeck

is the

Chief Security Officer

Kodiak Robotics

. Additionally,

Gerhard Eschelbeck

has had

past jobs including

Vice President of Security & Privacy Engineering

Google

Kodiak Robotics Chief Security OfficerOct 2022

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Google	Vice President of Security & Privacy Engineering	Oct 2014	Mar 2019
McAfee	Senior Product & Technology Roles	—	—
McAfee	Senior Product & Technology Roles	—	—
Qualys	CTO & Senior Vice President	—	—
Sophos	CTO & Senior Vice President	—	—

Board and Advisor Roles

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Gerhard Eschelbeck

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board and advisor roles including

Board Member

Terra Security

Board Member

Acalvio Technologies

, and

Digital & Technology Advisor

International Olympic Committee

Terra Security Board MemberSep 2025
Acalvio Technologies Board Member2023
International Olympic Committee Digital & Technology AdvisorMay 2019
Onapsis Board MemberJan 2019
Deutsche Bank Member Of The Supervisory BoardMay 2017
Nopsec Board Member2014
Lacework Advisor
Arista NDR Advisor
Pwnie Express Advisor
CryptoMove Advisor

Related Hubs

Hub Name	CB Rank (Hub)
Asian & European companies with $100M+ funding	7
International Fintech companies with > 5M funding	32,594
Companies that have recently changed CEOs	63,583
Fintech Companies with a Recent Leadership Hire	52,893
Enterprise companies with funding in the last 3 months	39,007
Financial services startups with 1-5 investors and Angel or Series A	38,785
Y Combinator U.S. Portfolio Companies: Black, Latine and Female founded	58,460
US companies acquired by companies in Asia	13,144
Alibaba and Tencent portfolio companies	21,993
Payment companies recently funded	53,819