Mark Ghermezian is the Founder and CEO of Gynger, the first embedded financing platform built for buyers and sellers of technology, combining non-dilutive capital with software to help businesses scale their tech stack.

Mark co-founded Braze (BRZE), pioneering a new customer engagement category from ideation all the way to IPO in November 2021, and is also Founder and General Partner at m]x[v Capital, a New York-based early-stage B2B SaaS venture firm.

With 20+ years of experience founding and investing in early-stage SaaS startups, Mark identified a critical gap in software purchasing firsthand while building Braze, where balancing tech costs against runway was a constant challenge.

As an angel investor, Mark backed early-stage companies including Nutanix, Lattice, Thoughtspot, Rubrik, and Riskified, and has also served as co-founder of Fourpost and CEO of Tildei, both incubated through m]x[v Capital.

Gynger raised a $20M Series A led by PayPal Ventures plus a $100M debt facility, and its platform has already facilitated technology payments for leading vendors including Snowflake, Salesforce, AWS, Cisco, and Datadog.