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  "markdown": "Co-founder.\n\nMark Kraakman co-founded AhaSend, an Amsterdam-based transactional email service. He previously worked at CYSO and was CEO of Hosting.NL, and joined AhaSend after looking for a European alternative to SendGrid, Mailgun and Amazon SES.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkraakman/\n\n## What Mark builds\n\n- [AhaSend API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ahasend.md), graded BB, 75.2/100, in Email delivery APIs. AhaSend is a Dutch email service with a REST API, SMTP relay, CLI and SDKs for transactional email and campaigns, hosted in the EU. Its hosted MCP server lets an AI tool send, diagnose and manage the account. Co-founder, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Farhad Hedayatifard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/farhad-hedayatifard/), Co-founder\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Mark Kraakman?\n\nMark Kraakman co-founded AhaSend, an Amsterdam-based transactional email service. He previously worked at CYSO and was CEO of Hosting.NL, and joined AhaSend after looking for a European alternative to SendGrid, Mailgun and Amazon SES.\n\n### What does AhaSend make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists AhaSend API + MCP from AhaSend. AhaSend is a Dutch email service with a REST API, SMTP relay, CLI and SDKs for transactional email and campaigns, hosted in the EU. Its hosted MCP server lets an AI tool send, diagnose and manage the account.\n\n### How are Mark's tools graded?\n\nAhaSend API + MCP is graded BB, 75.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://ahasend.com/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/fhedayatifard/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?keywords=%22AhaSend%22\n- https://ahasend.com/\n- https://ahasend.com/contact\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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