# Mark Ghermezian

> Mark Ghermezian is a pre-seed investor at m]x[v (Nyack) backing Software and SaaS. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [m\]x\[v](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m-x-v-capital)
- Location: Nyack, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markgher
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Markgher
- Website: https://x.com/Markgher

Mark Ghermezian is a pre-seed investor at m]x[v in Nyack focused on Software and SaaS. Mark Ghermezian is the Co-founder and former CEO of Braze. He is currently the CEO & Founder of Gynger.io, Tildei, and Founder & General Partner at m]x[v Capital.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 78% |
| SaaS | 3 | 33% |
| Analytics | 2 | 22% |
| Messaging | 2 | 22% |
| E-Commerce Platforms | 2 | 22% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 89% |
| Israel | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Buildstock | Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Alembic | With Alembic you will discover audience-first, cross-brand insights that provide you: Predictive forecasting Media and brand valuation Augmented analytics Correlation analysis | $16M | Series A | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Rengage | Rengage makes it easy to create a unified journey, bringing all your customer touch points together in one place. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Talkbase | Talkbase is a community operations platform that helps community builders visualize community engagement. It provides a platform for team collaboration, program management, and powerful analytics. Talkbase was founded in 2021 and is based in Delaware, USA. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| Novu | Novu is the only open source notification infrastructure. It's simple to use and can be embedded in any product platform. Its management dashboard allows developers to understand exactly what is happening and enhances communications between enterprises and their customers for a long-term relationship. | $6.6M | Seed | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Whym | Whym is a mobile wallet for messaging. We make it easy to build carts and pay without leaving the conversation. Merchants use Whym along with ANY messaging provider (bulk SMS, CRM, chat, DM, etc). Orders seamlessly sync to your commerce platform, ready to ship. We reduce friction and increase conversion by letting shoppers use their mobile numberto pay for stuff. Simply, reply to buy. Shoppers have one, unified account to use across all brands.Whym was built by ex-Snapchatters who share experience in payments, emerging mobile tech, ecom and telco. We're based in Los Angeles. | $4.3M | Seed | Dec 13, 2021 |  |
| Whym | Whym is an end-to-end ecom, payments & first-party data software suite for social selling. Servicing more than 500 SMB merchants & mid-market retailers across 35,000 consumer wallets through unique, future-of-retail solutions like text-to-pay, universal multi-merchant carts, and transparent digital identities for shoppers.Trusted bybrands like Siete Foods, The Hundreds and Doe beauty.Backed by investors & angels at Stripe, Venmo, Paypal, Apple, Google, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Salesforce, Microsoft, Snap, Facebook, Redbull, Spotify, Bread (BNPL), Good Money, AirBNB, WeWork, The Council, AngelList, Fast Co, P&G, Amplitude, SAP & others.Built by ex-Snap employees who share a background in fintech, consumer GTM and retail software.Visit https://kellyny.land/ Whym is an end-to-end ecom, payments & first-party data software suite for social selling. Servicing more than 500 SMB merchants & mid-market retailers across 35,000 consumer wallets through unique, future-of-retail solutions like text-to-pay, universal multi-merchant carts, and transparent digital identities for shoppers. Trusted by brands like Siete Foods, The Hundreds and Doe beauty. Backed by investors & angels at Stripe, Venmo, Paypal, Apple, Google, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Salesforce, Microsoft, Snap, Facebook, Redbull, Spotify, Bread (BNPL), Good Money, AirBNB, WeWork, The Council, AngelList, Fast Co, P&G, Amplitude, SAP & others. Built by ex-Snap employees who share a background in fintech, consumer GTM and retail software. | $5.9M | Seed | Dec 13, 2021 |  |
| Reprise | Reprise is a developer of a demo creation platform used to create and control software demos. Its platform captures screens of the product using the browser, changes text, data, and flow of screens, locks the replay as designed, and makes customized demos, website based product tours, and emailable product experiences that enable businesses tocapture, edit, and deploy software product demos based on their existing production application. | $62M | Series B | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| Rhythm | The enterprise performance suite for scaling revenue leaders | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Reciprocal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reciprocal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [XFactor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfactor-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Deciens Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deciens-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MAGIC Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magic-carpet) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MGV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maschmeyer-group-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About m]x[v

VC Fund · New York, United States

m]x[v is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage B2B and SaaS investments. Bringing a founder and operator perspective to the cap table. The firm was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

1 contacts available at m]x[v.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Ghermezian | Founder & GP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-ghermezian |

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## FAQ

### What does Mark Ghermezian invest in?

Mark Ghermezian invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Mark Ghermezian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mark Ghermezian closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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