Crane Venture Partners

What is Crane Venture Partners?

Crane Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments, focusing on Enterprise Software and Deep Tech sectors. With headquarters on Albemarle Street in London, the firm operates primarily across Europe, also engaging with markets in the UK, EU, US, and Israel. Their investment approach targets Pre-seed, Seed, and Series A stages in startups, particularly those led by founders with profound understanding and experience in the issues they aim to address with their businesses.

They are first to believe in their founders' vision and last to leave, supporting them through all journey stages from ideation to global success. Crane Venture Partners seeks out transformative software that creates significant shifts for businesses and the essential tools and infrastructure needed by tomorrow's creators, builders, and operators.

Their portfolio includes companies such as H2O.ai, which achieved a $1.7 billion valuation, and Silverflow, which has developed a cloud-native platform for payment companies. Tessian is another crown jewel in their portfolio, becoming a trusted Human Layer Security platform after a successful $65 million Series C raise.

With an investment range between $750,000 and $3,000,000, and an investment sweet spot around $2,000,000, the firm has $140 million in assets under management and expertly provides capital to sectors including Software, Business Solutions, FinTech, A.I., Big Data, Web Security, Privacy, Analytics, Cloud Services, Developer Tools, Logistics, Payments, and DeepTech.

Besides funding, Crane Venture Partners offers resources such as their 'Value Creation Explained' booklet to equip startups with frameworks for success in significant deals.

What they say:

We invest in Enterprise Software and Deep Tech at the Seed stage across Europe