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Mark Kraynak

Founding Partner at Acrew Capital

United States

Overview 

Mark Kraynak is the Founding Partner at Acrew Capital, where he has successfully invested in and served on the boards of numerous companies like Nextdata, Protect AI, and Silverfort. With a background in both engineering and fine arts, he brings a unique perspective to the consumer internet and enterprise sectors, focusing on seed and Series A stages in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2019 - Current

Acrew Capital is a venture capital firm investing in transformative companies and diversifying the cap tables of leading growth companies.

  • Board Director

    2024

Aembit Workload Identity and Access Management (IAM) makes workload access automated, secure, and governed, without burdening developers.

Raised $42,999,995.00 from Acrew Capital, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Ballistic Ventures, Ten Eleven Ventures and Okta Ventures.

  • Board Director

    2020

  • Board Director

    2022

Casa helps consumers and companies securely store cryptocurrencies and manage private keys.

Raised $27,100,000.00 from Castle Island Ventures, StillMark, Scott Belsky, Acrew Capital, Frederic Kerrest, Todd McKinnon, Avon Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Lerer Hippeau and Positive Sum.

  • Board Director

    2024

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2024

Evident is the global leader in business credentialing with a network of millions of businesses across more than one hundred countries

Raised $42,800,000.00 from Forté Ventures, Gaingels, New Enterprise Associates, Blue Cloud Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Strawberry Creek Ventures, Aspect Ventures, Tom Noonan and Lane Bess.

  • Board Director

    2023

Nextdata offers an operating system for decentralized data at scale on an AI platform.

Raised $12,000,000.00 from Opher Kahane, Greycroft, MetaLab, Amr Awadallah and Acrew Capital.

  • Board Director

    2023

  • Board Director

    2022

  • Board Director

    2021

  • Board Director

    2019

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