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Crane

Crane

Venture Capital

Early stage venture capital firm focusing on technology investments.

Portfolio

6

companies


Portfolio companies

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Lune

Lune offers software tools that enable businesses to integrate carbon calculations and removal into their products.

PQShield

PQShield

PQShield builds quantum-resistant cryptographic solutions for the global technology supply chain.

7bridges

7bridges

7bridges provides an artificial intelligence platform for supply chain optimisation and logistics management.

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Cerbos

Cerbos provides open-source software to streamline user permissions for growing tech companies.

Paid

Paid

Paid provides a procurement automation platform for enterprise supplier management.

ThoughtRiver

ThoughtRiver

ThoughtRiver delivers automated contract pre-screening software for legal teams.


Team

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Krishna Visvanathan

Founding Partner

Krishna is a co-founder and partner at Crane Venture Partners. He also serves as a seed and pre-seed investor and board member across several companies.

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Scott Sage

Partner


Recent investments

Seed
$4.0M

The investment round was led by Crane with backing from fifteen angel investors.

"It is essential that every business becomes more climate friendly. For TrueLayer, doing right for our planet is important, an ethos shared by both our customers and our employees. Lune was the easiest way for our business to take the first steps, have a real impact, and continue building the future of the payments industry."
— Francesco Simoneschi
Series A
£14.8M

Addition led the Series A round to support product development, hiring and global expansion.

"Thanks to an industry-leading team, decades of combined experience and a best-in-class product offering, PQShield has quickly emerged as a front runner and true authority in post-quantum cryptography for hardware and software, a field with enormous market potential. PQShield is already helping to define the future of information security, and we are excited to support their ongoing growth."
— Lee Fixel
Series A
£12.5M

The round was led by Eight Roads with participation from Maersk Growth, Local Globe and Crane.

"At 7bridges, we are uniquely positioned to help businesses enhance, and future-proof, their supply chains in ways that are more sustainable, resilient, cost-effective and efficient. By harnessing our artificial intelligence to make coherent rapid and adaptive decisions across channels, product categories, geographies and service providers we’re able to transform multiple elements of the supply chain, from planning to execution, inbound and outbound logistics, inventory optimisation to customer experience."
— Philip Ashton, CEO and Co-Founder
Seed
$3.5M

Crane led the seed round with backing from Earlybird Digital East, Seedcamp, and multiple angel investors.

"It is well understood that user permission requirements get more complex as enterprise clients get bigger, and serve users in different roles, with a complex number of permission exceptions. To save companies from building this from scratch, Cerbos’ open-source approach radically simplifies user and role permissions by abstracting away the complexity. At Crane, we’ve been blown away by how much value their early users are already getting from the system."
— Scott Sage, Partner
Seed
£2.2M

The seed round was led by Crane with participation from Seedcamp, Techstars and several prominent angel investors.

"Every SME who has ever dealt with large enterprises knows the pain and the time it takes to do even a simple thing like onboarding as a supplier, signing a contract, or getting paid on time. What they may not know is that that frustration is usually shared by the enterprise buyer, whose internal, one-size fits all process means they can’t move quickly."
— Tom Howsam, Co-Founder and CEO
Series A
£7.5M

The Cambridge-founded legal tech company has secured £7.5m from Octopus Ventures and existing backers to scale its US presence and sales operations.

"To receive this investment in the current climate is testament to the relevance of ThoughtRiver’s technology, when across the globe, businesses are looking to do more with less."
— Tim Pullan, CEO