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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.
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.
Board Member
2023
Cybersecurity built from the ground up for healthcare.
Blackwell Security offers managed security operations for healthcare organizations to deliver complete protection and rapid response.
Raised $13,000,000.00 from General Catalyst and Rally Ventures.
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.
Investor
2021
Lacework is a cloud security services provider that automates cloud security at scale so customers can innovate with speed and safety.
Raised $1,899,000,000.00 from Google Ventures.
Board Observer
2021
Cybersecurity risk: solved through insurance and software.
Resilience supports companies assess, measure, and manage their cyber risk by balancing risk acceptance, mitigation, and transfer.
Raised $217,000,000.00 from General Catalyst, Intact Ventures, Founders Fund and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2006 - 2011