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Mark Crane
Partner at General Catalyst
San Francisco, California
Overview
Mark Crane is a Partner at General Catalyst in San Francisco, California, specializing in financial modeling, corporate finance, and venture capital. He has made significant investments in companies such as AuthZed (Series A) and Bugcrowd (Series E), showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting successful startups.
With a background in investment banking and corporate development, Mark has leveraged his skills to strategically invest in companies at various stages, including Series B, Series A, and Seed rounds, across sectors like Consumer Internet and Marketplaces.
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
Board Member
2025
Perfect emergency operations powered by AI.
By offering real-time data from callers, Prepared empowers emergency operators to focus on doing what they do best: saving lives.
Raised $71,429,615.00 from NewView Capital, First Round Capital, M13 and Andreessen Horowitz.
Board Observer
2024
Asset security for the enterprise.
Armis is a developer of an asset intelligence platform to analyze endpoint behavior to identify risks and attacks.
Raised $737,000,000.00 from General Catalyst, Georgian, Alkeon Capital and Brookfield Asset Management.
Investor
2024
More soon!
Board Member
2024
To be announced.
Investor
2024
AI built for the paralegal and general counsel.
Board Member
2024
Scalable authorization for any enterprise, built on open source.
AuthZed is a permissions systems provider that helps organizations build fast, secure, and scalable authorization services for applications.
Raised $15,900,000.00 from Y Combinator, Amplify Partners, Work-Bench and General Catalyst.
Board Member
2024
Crowdsourced cybersecurity.
Bugcrowd is a cybersecurity company that operates as a platform for crowdsourced security testing.
Raised $230,650,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank.
Investor
2022
Next generation application security.
Apiiro enables security and development teams to proactively remediate risk before releasing to the cloud.
Raised $135,000,000.00 from General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Greylock.
Investor
2022
Clean code, powered by open source.
Investor
2022
Fixing business travel for the 99% globally.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2006 - 2011