Crane Venture Partners

Krishna Visvanathan and Scott Sage co-founded Crane and both remain partners. Visvanathan has spent 27 years backing European companies across the enterprise stack and previously co-founded a deep technology startup. Sage, a Texan who has worked with European companies for two decades, came into venture from marketing, strategy, research and finance roles.

Bonnie Kraus is chief operating officer and partner, a chartered accountant trained at Arthur Andersen who advised on M&A at BDO and served as finance director at Better Capital. Carlos Jo-Loo runs the Singapore-based APAC practice after stints at MassMutual Ventures, BCG and BMO Capital Markets, while Anandamoy Roychowdhary leads AI and deeptech investing in India following more than a decade at Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia. Rav Dhaliwal, Slack's first UK employee, and Richard Snee, former chief marketing officer at Pivotal, serve as venture partners.

Crane invests out of dedicated early-stage vehicles rather than a single evergreen pool, and co-founders Scott Sage and Krishna Visvanathan have raised each one together. Crane I reached $90 million at a second closing announced in June 2019, positioning the firm as a London-based specialist in what it calls intelligent enterprise software.

Crane II followed in 2022 at $140 million, again concentrated on pre-seed and seed rounds in European B2B software, data infrastructure and applied machine learning. The firm reports roughly $400 million under management. Crane typically leads or co-leads the first institutional round and has since extended coverage beyond Europe, adding a Singapore-based APAC practice and an India team. Limited partners have not been disclosed publicly. Its best-known holdings include UiPath, Pleo, ComplyAdvantage and Synthace.