Oliver Friedrichs
Founder of Pangea
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2021 - Current
Pangea created the Composable Security category. Built by developers, for developers, Pangea provides an out-of-the-box set of API-delivered security services to add security features to your cloud app. Get to market faster and add the security features that you need with just a few lines of code. If you're building a new cloud application or migrating an on-premise app to the cloud you have to check it out. We're hiring talented engineers with security, cloud, and API experience in Palo Alto or remote.
Pangea provides globally accessible and regionally intelligent Services, and is available on AWS and GCP.
Raised $51,000,000.00 from Okta Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, SYN Ventures and Decibel Partners.
VP of Security Products
2018 - 2021
Splunk Ventures is an Investment Firm.
Founder and CEO
2014 - 2018
Phantom accelerates and amplifies Security Operations. Our mission is to close the security gap by enabling Enterprise Security Operations to be Smarter, Faster, and Stronger. Now a part of Splunk!
SVP, Cloud Technology and Strategy
2011 - 2014
Sourcefire provides enterprise threat management solutions for IT infrastructures of various industries.
Raised $40,500,000.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, Core Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Inflection Point Ventures and Sierra Ventures.
Founder and CEO
2008 - 2010
Founded Immunet, a venture-backed Palo Alto, California-based AntiMalware software company acquired by Sourcefire in December, 2010. Immunet developed one of the industry's first Big Data security platforms to discover, detect, and remove advanced malware.
Immunet offers free community-based antivirus software to protect against threats, and uses community awareness for intelligent protection.
Raised $2,000,000.00 from TechOperators and Altos Ventures.
Director, Emerging Technologies
2002 - 2008
Created Emerging Technologies group to define strategy for security technology development. Created Symantec Advanced Threat Research, responsible for research into existing and future threats, computing platforms and security solutions. Managed DeepSight engineering.
Email Filtering Company
Raised $35,000,000.00 from TCV, Crosslink Capital, NortonLifeLock, Critical Path, Accel, Opportunity Capital Partners, Esther Dyson, Bill Joy and Thomas Weisel Partners.
Co-founder and Director of Engineering
1999 - 2002
Co-founder and Director of Engineering at SecurityFocus, acquired by Symantec in 2002. Managed the development of the first global cyber early warning system, DeepSight. Created the DeepSight Threat Analyst team providing thorough analysis of emerging Internet threats.
Senior Manager
1998 - 1999
Managed the CyberCop Vulnerability Management solutions. Founded COVERT (Computer Vulnerability Exploitation Research Team) with the goal of researching and discovering new security vulnerabilities.
Co-founder and VP of Engineering
1996 - 1998
Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Secure Networks, Inc., acquired by McAfee in 1998. Architected and managed the CyberCop Vulnerability Management solutions. http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/41411
Volunteer
1993 - 1996
Volunteer at BlueSky Freenet of Manitoba. Manitoba, Canada's first non-profit Internet access service, providing Internet access to subscribers at no cost.