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Crane Venture Partners
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Crane Venture Partners is a venture firm that backs founders from inception through seed, focused on foundational technology. It offers go-to-market expertise, network introductions, and operator-led guidance to portfolio companies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningFintech
In its own wordsfoundational technologygo-to-marketaisecuritydeep techenterprise
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Or find every investor that fitsCrane Venture Partners lists 110 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 26 funding rounds, 10 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 44% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (27%), Fintech (15%) and Cybersecurity (13%). 38% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside LocalGlobe, Y Combinator and Seedcamp.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Crane Venture Partners, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Crane Venture Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 25 companies; its own site lists 110. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 4% |
| Seed | 44% |
| Series A | 32% |
| Series B | 16% |
| Growth | 4% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 1 |
| '25 | 7 | 2 |
| '26 | 17 | 7 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 96th | 110 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 17 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 68th | 48% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 90th | 18% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 41th | 27% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 17 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 27% | 18% |
| Fintech | 15% | 12% |
| Cybersecurity | 13% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 3% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| LocalGlobe | 9 |
| Y Combinator | 8 |
| Seedcamp | 7 |
| Entrepreneurs First | 6 |
| Backed | 5 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 5 |
| Accel | 4 |
| B Capital | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers10898%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company22%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Crane Venture Partners head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Crane Venture Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 3 Aug 2026 | Series B | |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Crane Venture Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Crane Venture Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
110 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fintech | Portfolio page | |||
| Added Health provides private proactive care services, including screening and diagnostics, with a team of personal physicians and specialists | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ardent Artificial Intelligence, Inc. rediscovers the practice of software engineering in the age of artificial intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Armatrix builds robotic arms for industrial inspection and maintenance | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Nov 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Aseon Labs provides autonomous infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, including charging, cleaning, and inspecting services. | Mobility & Logistics | Jun 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Aspire provides financial services and products for growing businesses, including business accounts, payments, and expense management. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company discovers alternatives to critical minerals and develops new materials through simulation and lab synthesis. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| BioRaptor provides a bioprocessing data analytics platform for bioprocessing teams to collect, analyze, and visualize data | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bitpart AI creates software for designing and developing interactive worlds with characters that can converse and interact with each other and objects. | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Bluefish provides a marketing platform for enterprise brands to orchestrate AI performance | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Aug 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| BondbloX simplifies bond investing by allowing investors to track and trade bonds electronically | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Centrifuge provides infrastructure for tokenizing real-world assets and managing funds onchain, including tokenized products, DeFi distribution, and fund structuring services. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Cerbos provides an authorization management platform for enterprise software and AI | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Chiral develops semiconductor manufacturing equipment to fabricate electronic transistors with nanomaterials. | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Closeday closes UK small and mid-sized companies quickly, compliantly, and without hassle by combining licensed professionals with powerful software | Legal & ComplianceFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| CloudSEK provides cybersecurity products and services, including predictive attack path intelligence and threat monitoring. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| CoMind develops non-invasive neurotechnology to measure and treat the brain | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| ConfigHub provides a control system for managing changes to live software systems | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| CoSyne Therapeutics uses AI for precision medicine drug discovery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- crane.vc
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 Dec 2021
- Companies checked
- 110
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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