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Morgan Gerlak

Investor at Arize AI

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Morgan Gerlak is a Partner at TCV, with a background in venture capital and investment banking. He has successfully invested in and served on the boards of companies such as Nagomi Security and Arize AI, focusing on sectors like cybersecurity and AI. Gerlak holds a Master of Business Administration from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and has made significant contributions to TCV's investment portfolio, particularly in Series A and Series B stages within the cybersecurity and AI sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

TCV provides investment capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry.

  • Series B Investor & Board Director

    2025

  • Series B Investor

    2024

Elisity Cognitive Trust is a new security paradigm that combines Zero Trust Network Access and an AI-enabled Software Defined Perimeter.

Raised $78,500,000.00 from Insight Partners, AllegisCyber, Two Bear Capital, Hyperlink Ventures and Atlantic Bridge.

  • Series A Investor

    2024

Upwind Security provides cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from digital threats and vulnerabilities.

Raised $180,000,000.00 from Craft Ventures, Greylock, TCV, Penny Jar Capital, Cyberstarts, Sheva Capital, Cerca Partners, Leaders Fund, Alta Park Capital and Cerca Partners.

  • Series A Investor & Board Director

    2024

Nagomi is changing the way security teams balance risk and defense, empowering customers to focus on what matters now.

Raised $30,000,000.00 from Nir Polak, Shlomo Kramer, TCV, Galina Antova, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Guy Podjarny and Okta Ventures.

  • Series A Investor

    2024

Albert end-to-end Cloud Platform accelerates R&D innovation in the chemical and material science industry.

Raised $7,500,000.00 from Connor Theilmann, Homebrew, F-Prime Capital and Index Ventures.

  • Series B Investor & Board Director

    2022

Arize AI offers a platform that explains and troubleshoots production AI.

Raised $61,024,999.00 from Battery Ventures, TCV, Swift Ventures and Foundation Capital.

  • Series A Investor

    2022

  • Series A Investor & Board Director

    2023 - 2024

    Acquired by Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS)

  • Principal

    2021 - 2022

Forgepoint Capital is a venture capital management company to invest in cybersecurity startups mainly in Europe, Latin America and Israel.

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