Crane Venture Partners
Venture capitalLondon · Pre-Seed–Seed · 28 people tracked
Also known as Crane · CRANE VENTURE PARTNERS LLP
Investment thesis
Crane invests at the earliest stages, from inception through seed, backing outlier founders building foundational technology with global ambitions from day one. Beyond capital, the firm positions itself as a hands-on partner, offering go-to-market expertise including positioning, messaging, sales strategy, and key hiring support. Its partners are described as seasoned operators who have built, scaled, and sold companies, providing practical, battle-tested guidance from early traction through growth. Crane also emphasizes a high-trust network, curating connections across the broader ecosystem and running CXO and CISO advisory groups to open doors and share knowledge among founders.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 28 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 42 of 126 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×27Enterprise Software ×25Developer Tools ×13SaaS ×13Data & Infrastructure ×12Fintech ×8Cybersecurity ×7Cloud Computing ×5
HQs:United States×11United Kingdom×6Singapore×2France×1
Investments · 126 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathSeattle, US
Chad Sanderson(Executive Officer, Director)Adrian Kreuziger(Director)
BoardJames Frost(Director)Apoorva Pandhi(Director)
Board seatScott Sage· per SEC Form D · $20.4M raise · filed Jul 2024
London
Board seatScott Sage· per SEC Form D · $125.2M raise · filed Apr 2020
Ardent provides instant, production-grade database clones that load in seconds and scale efficiently, enabling AI agents and developers to test database code and solve data problems without risk to production.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Vikram Chennai(Founder)in
Aseon Labs builds autonomous robotic service stations that provide charging, cleaning, and inspection for self-driving vehicles deployed in the field.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareMobility & TransportationRoboticsSan Francisco, US
George Kalligeros(Co-founder & CEO)inDan Keene(Co-founder & COO)in
Aspire provides corporate account and card solutions for businesses with complex operations, offering relationship management and an online platform for employee spending oversight.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSingapore, SG
Andrea Baronchelli(Founder/CEO)inGiovanni Casinelli(Founder)in
Atomic Tessellator combines computational physics with machine learning and enterprise software architecture, though the page does not specify its product offering or customer market.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechNew Materials
BoardDr. Priyank KumarProf. Simon Ringer
Methuen, US
Sarah Rudzki(Executive Officer, Director)Jeffrey Orkin(Executive Officer, Director)
UiPath provides enterprise automation software that uses AI agents and robots to automate business processes across departments like procurement, finance, and ERP systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsSaaSDenver, US
Mark Geene(Founder & CEO)Jim Franklin(Director)Joseph R. Zell(Director)Jeffrey Hinck(Director)
Cyberhaven provides data detection and response (DDR) software that helps security teams investigate incidents involving data exfiltration and insider threats by reconstructing the complete timeline and context of user actions and data movements.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Datapane is an open-source Python library for building interactive data reports by wrapping components such as Pandas DataFrames, plots from libraries like Plotly and Altair, Markdown, and files.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsBedford
Leo Anthias(Executive Officer, Director)Mandeep Gill(Executive Officer, Director)
Encord provides a data platform for developing and deploying multimodal AI systems, serving AI development teams at scale across training and production environments.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsLondon, GB
Ulrik Stig Hansen(Co-Founder & President)inEric Landau(Founder)in
Kurrent (formerly Event Store) is an event-native data platform that stores and streams data as events, recording each change with its cause and order over time in an immutable log.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHighlands Ranch, US
Kierre Reeg(Founder)Colin Cantrell(Founder)Jared Reeg(Executive Officer)
Laminar analyzes, builds, and governs enterprise systems for small to large businesses using proprietary implementation intelligence technology.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Raj Kadiyala(Co-Founder & CEO)inEdward Aryee(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Principals & officers · per Companies House
what is this? ⓘLLP designated member · since 2018
LLP designated member · since 2015
Corporate LLP member · since 2018
Krishna Visvanathan — 25–50% of voting rights, right to share surplus assets 25 to 50 percent limited liability partnership, right to appoint and remove members limited liability partnership
Jeffrey Scott Sage — 25–50% of voting rights, right to share surplus assets 25 to 50 percent limited liability partnership, right to appoint and remove members as firm limited liability partnership
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Crane Venture Partners invest at?
- Crane Venture Partners invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Crane Venture Partners's typical check size?
- Crane Venture Partners typically writes checks of $750K – $3M.
- What sectors does Crane Venture Partners focus on?
- Crane Venture Partners focuses on Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Crane Venture Partners located?
- Crane Venture Partners is headquartered in London, GB.
- Does Crane Venture Partners lead rounds?
- Crane Venture Partners typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
From the blog
visit blog ↗Crane recently backed funding rounds for OLIX (AI inference infrastructure) and Nopan (payments optimization), and celebrated Ona's acquisition by OpenAI, the evolution of a developer infrastructure company founded as Gitpod into an AI-focused platform. AI summary
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamScott Sage, Crane Venture Partners
Tech Tour · Scott Sage
Emerging deep trend technologies in Europe - Interview with Scott Sage, Crane Venture Partners
Tech Tour · Scott Sage
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Co-investors · 40
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LocalGlobe is part of a multi-generational Phoenix Court platform that backs companies from pre-seed through public markets, founded by the Klein family who are considered founders of European seed investing with multi-decade relationships across the European tech ecosystem. The fund operates from a physical founder village at Phoenix Court in London and focuses on backing unconventional entrepreneurs in specific geographic neighbourhoods, having been among the earliest institutional backers of European outliers like Wise, Zoopla, and Citymapper.
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