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Crane Venture Partners

Founders Krishna Visvanathan Scott Sage

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Total investments 92
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$11M
Portfolio companies 52
Rounds per year 10.22
Lead investments 20
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.42
Key employees 8
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Analytics
Summary

Crane Venture Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2015. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Tessian, H2O.ai, Team Satchel. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Crane Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Nexus Venture Partners, Winton Ventures, Upscale. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are LocalGlobe, Heartcore Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by White Star Capital, Plug and Play, Heartcore Capital.

The current fund was established by Krishna Visvanathan, Scott Sage. The overall number of key employees were 7.

The important activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sandgarden

Information Technology
Internet
$4M24 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

Cord

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Software
$30M13 Aug 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

tinybird

Analytics
$30M17 Jun 2024 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Cyberhaven

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
$88M11 Jun 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Bitpart AI

$5M01 Mar 2024 -

SeeChange

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Software
Video
$10M21 Nov 2023 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Silverflow

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
$17M16 Nov 2023 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

ZenML

Enterprise Software
Fraud Detection
Image Recognition
Information Technology
Intelligent Systems
Open Source
Predictive Analytics
Risk Management
Software
Speech Recognition
$3M23 Oct 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Deta

Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Information Technology
Web Development
$3M10 Oct 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
News
Foundries.io Raises $8M Series A Funding to (Actually) Secure the Internet of Things

– Foundries.io has raised $8M in Series A funding, led by IQ Capital, with participation from Crane Venture Partners and Backed VC.
– Foundries.io delivers FoundriesFactory, the world’s first cloud-native solution for embedded technologies that reinvents IoT, and counts tier one OEMs, silicon industry leaders and SoC companies among its customers and partners, including ARM, NXP Semiconductors, MontaVista, STMicroelectronics and WINSYSTEMS.
– Led by technology industry pioneers, George Grey and Ian Drew, Foundries.io has developed a transformative, open source platform that provides OEMs and Systems Integrators a common software base to develop, test, deploy, manage and maintain secure IoT and Edge devices through a single cloud-native solution.

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Total investments 92
Average round size 11M
Rounds per year 10.22
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.42
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sandgarden

Information Technology
Internet
$4M24 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

Cord

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Software
$30M13 Aug 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

tinybird

Analytics
$30M17 Jun 2024 Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Cyberhaven

Cloud Security
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Security
$88M11 Jun 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Bitpart AI

$5M01 Mar 2024 -

SeeChange

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Software
Video
$10M21 Nov 2023 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Silverflow

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Software
$17M16 Nov 2023 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

ZenML

Enterprise Software
Fraud Detection
Image Recognition
Information Technology
Intelligent Systems
Open Source
Predictive Analytics
Risk Management
Software
Speech Recognition
$3M23 Oct 2023 Munich, Bayern, Germany

Deta

Developer APIs
Developer Tools
Information Technology
Web Development
$3M10 Oct 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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