Scott Merkle

VP Americas at Pentera

📍 Silverthorne, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2017
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Investor, Advisor & Initial SVP Sales & Marketing
Oct 2017
We are excited to announce we have joined the SailPoint fleet! As a leading market innovator, SailPoint brings together its extensive footprint in identity governance with OverWatchID's visionary approach to governing access in cloud applications, platforms and infrastructures. We expect to launch the OverWatchID products as part of the SailPoint Predictive Identity platform in early 2020.
Advisor, Investor
Mar 2017
SecureSet is a cybersecurity education company focused on teaching the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. With a mission of transforming and securing the world, SecureSet helps offset critical skills gaps in the cybersecurity field through immersive, comprehensive education programs that rapidly produce highly trained, relevant, up-to-date professionals. Founded in the wake of a profound shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals, and increasingly sophisticated onslaught of threats worldwide, SecureSet’s hands-on approach ensures graduates have immediate, in-demand skills to protect against the latest threats in an accelerated time frame. SecureSet has campuses in Denver and Colorado Springs, CO. Our sister bootcamp Flatiron School teaches our cybersecurity curriculum at campuses in NYC and Washington D.C. Visit us at www.secureset.com.
Advisor, Investor, and Business Development Consultant
2016
Ocient is a data analytics software solutions company that enables compute-intensive analysis of large, complex datasets while optimizing for performance, cost, and energy efficiency. Ocient brings data transformation, loading, complex query processing, AI, OcientML® and OcientGeo® into a single, consolidated solution for deeper insights and data-driven decision-making. Enterprises can deploy Ocient’s pilot-to-production solutions on premises, in the OcientCloud™ or the public cloud, with little to no resource-intensive integration. Ocient is a global, remote-first, carbon-neutral company, headquartered in Chicago, and backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures. If youre interested in joining a team making data more efficient at scale, email us at: recruiting@ocient.com
Experience · 6 entries
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2017
Investor, Advisor & Initial SVP Sales & Marketing
Oct 2017
We are excited to announce we have joined the SailPoint fleet! As a leading market innovator, SailPoint brings together its extensive footprint in identity governance with OverWatchID's visionary approach to governing access in cloud applications, platforms and infrastructures. We expect to launch the OverWatchID products as part of the SailPoint Predictive Identity platform in early 2020.
Advisor, Investor
Mar 2017
SecureSet is a cybersecurity education company focused on teaching the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. With a mission of transforming and securing the world, SecureSet helps offset critical skills gaps in the cybersecurity field through immersive, comprehensive education programs that rapidly produce highly trained, relevant, up-to-date professionals. Founded in the wake of a profound shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals, and increasingly sophisticated onslaught of threats worldwide, SecureSet’s hands-on approach ensures graduates have immediate, in-demand skills to protect against the latest threats in an accelerated time frame. SecureSet has campuses in Denver and Colorado Springs, CO. Our sister bootcamp Flatiron School teaches our cybersecurity curriculum at campuses in NYC and Washington D.C. Visit us at www.secureset.com.
2016
Advisor, Investor, and Business Development Consultant
2016
Ocient is a data analytics software solutions company that enables compute-intensive analysis of large, complex datasets while optimizing for performance, cost, and energy efficiency. Ocient brings data transformation, loading, complex query processing, AI, OcientML® and OcientGeo® into a single, consolidated solution for deeper insights and data-driven decision-making. Enterprises can deploy Ocient’s pilot-to-production solutions on premises, in the OcientCloud™ or the public cloud, with little to no resource-intensive integration. Ocient is a global, remote-first, carbon-neutral company, headquartered in Chicago, and backed by leading investors including Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures. If youre interested in joining a team making data more efficient at scale, email us at: recruiting@ocient.com
2009
Co-Founder, Executive Vice President of Sales
2009
Page Foundry's software and services transform ereading from it's current collection of disassociated products from multiple and disconnected participants into an integrated suite of services. Page Foundry delivers the foundation through which Publisher's, Device Manufacturers and Retailers can reach millions of digitalconsumers in entirely new and profitable ways. The key to our partner's success lies not just in our ability to create and deliver great products, but in our unique ability to enable our partners deliver compelling and optimized content, devices and offers to mass-market consumers.
1991
GO Corporation (Kleiner Perkins funded)
Software Product Manager
1991
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