Mark Kraynak

A trained poet and former teacher who ages his own bourbon in his basement, Mark can recite all 1100 words of ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ while whopping you in pool, darts, shufflepuck or really any game you’d find at a bar.

Mark Kraynak is a technology executive, company builder and erstwhile poet/engineer. Before co-founding Acrew, Mark joined Aspect Ventures as Entrepreneur in Residence and converted to a full time investor at the end of 2017. Prior to joining Aspect, Mark spent nearly 13 years at Imperva, where he held a number of marketing, product, corporate development and strategy roles.

Mark has led or co-led investments in Aembit, At-Bay, Aqua Security, Casa, CipherTrace, Coin Metrics, Edge Impulse, Nextdata, Nokod Security, Protect AI, Radiant Security, and Silverfort in the early stage and Aqua Security, Cato Networks, Exabeam and Vanta in the later stage. He has also been an advisor to Exabeam, Indegy, Kloudless, Trustar, and Aqua Security.

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