About Crane Venture Partners
Crane Venture Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. It is primarily based out of London, United Kingdom. As of Aug 2026, Crane Venture Partners is an active investor, having invested in 74 companies, with 12 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series A round in United Kingdom based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series B round of Olix Overall, Crane Venture Partners portfolio has seen 2 unicorns and 10 acquisitions including key companies like Onfido, H2O AI and Cyberhaven. A lot of funds co-invest with Crane Venture Partners, with names like LocalGlobe sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Crane Venture Partners has team of 17 people including 5 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 2 more
Portfolio Unicorns
Portfolio Soonicorns
Crane Venture Partners' List of Top Investments
Crane Venture Partners has a portfolio of 74 companies, including 2 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Hacktron and Datapane.Their portfolio spans across United Kingdom, United States, Germany and 11 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure and 23 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by Crane Venture Partners:
1. Centrifuge
Provider of the decentralized platform to connect the financial supply chain. It allows businesses to transact on a network while maintaining ownership of their data, including validated company details, business relationships, and transactions. It also enables businesses to exchange financial documents such as invoices, purchase orders, and company data.
Key facts about Centrifuge
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $27.1M
- Employee Count: 48 as on Jun 30, 2026
- Investors: Isomer Capital, Mosaic Ventures and 43 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, May 05, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Gitpod
Platform offering integrated cloud development environment. It includes a multi-track development solution that provides users with multiple workspaces for bugging, code review, etc. The features of the product include workflow automation, automated code execution, debugging, code reviews, source code centralization, etc.
Key facts about Gitpod
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Kiel (Germany)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $41M
- Employee Count: 78 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: MongoDB, Vertex Ventures and 13 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Nov 03, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Encord
Developer of a platform for managing, curating, and annotating AI data. The platform facilitates the transformation of unstructured multimodal data into high-quality data. It offers tools for data indexing, curation, annotation, alignment, and collaboration. The platform provides data management, data annotation, and model evaluation capabilities.
Key facts about Encord
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $110M
- Employee Count: 195 as on Jun 30, 2026
- Investors: Isomer Capital, CRV and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Dec 03, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Onfido
Provider of identity verification and digital security authentication software solutions. These tools facilitate document validation, biometric matching, and data verification to confirm user identities during digital onboarding processes. The technology incorporates fraud detection signals and device intelligence to identify potential threats and impersonation attempts. Additional capabilities include cryptographic security platforms, hardware security modules, and public key infrastructure management to protect data and digital transactions. The software supports regulatory compliance requirements for financial and enterprise environments through automated risk assessment and identity lifecycle management.
Key facts about Onfido
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Annual Revenue: £50M - £100M as on Jan 31, 2023
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $242M
- Employee Count: 319 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Sprout Capital Partners, SoftBank Group and 104 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Aug 18, 2020, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Axiom
Provider of observability and AI engineering platform for event data. The platform offers distributed tracing and zero sampling to improve service quality. It provides AI workflow tracing, SDK and telemetry, and long-term active retention. The platform supports logs, traces, metrics, and AI. It connects via OpenTelemetry, Events API, and platform SDKs. The platform offers event store, data loading, API, security, console, query, reporting, monitoring, and management.
Key facts about Axiom
- Founded Year: 2010
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $41.4M
- Employee Count: 54 as on Jun 30, 2026
- Investors: Mango Capital, LocalGlobe and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Feb 07, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Crane Venture Partners' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Crane Venture Partners has invested in 74 companies over the last 9 years, with an average of 7 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 10 investments, while as of Aug 2026, it has made 10 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Olix and most recent follow-on round was in Bluefish Labs.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 8 | 2 | 10 |
2025 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
2024 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
2023 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
2022 | 9 | 4 | 13 |
2021 | 8 | 11 | 19 |
2020 | 11 | 1 | 12 |
2019 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2017 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
Crane Venture Partners' Investments by Stage
Crane Venture Partners has made 46 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $4.72M, 15 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $16.7M, 3 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $116M and 2 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $35M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 46 |
Series A | 15 |
Series B | 3 |
Series C | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Crane Venture Partners' Investments by Sector
Crane Venture Partners has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, High Tech, FinTech and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 71 Tech companies, 69 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 61 Software companies and at least 47 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 53 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 26 |
High Tech | 20 |
FinTech | 9 |
Vertical SaaS | 9 |
Others | 47 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Crane Venture Partners' Investments by Geography
Crane Venture Partners has made most investments in United Kingdom (24), followed by United States where it has made 18 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United Kingdom | 24 |
United States | 18 |
Germany | 6 |
Netherlands | 3 |
Spain | 3 |
Others | 12 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Crane Venture Partners' recent investments
Crane Venture Partners has made 10 investments in 2026 so far. Olix and Kalki are the latest among them.Here are the most recent investments by Crane Venture Partners:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Aug 03, 2026 | South Africa | Series B | 2222 | [+8] | |
Jul 16, 2026 | India | Seed | 3201 | - | |
Jul 14, 2026 | Netherlands | Seed | 5728 | [+1] | |
Jun 26, 2026 | United States | Seed | 5144 | [+6] | |
Apr 29, 2026 | Spain | Series A | 1773 | [+2] |
Unicorns in Crane Venture Partners' Portfolio
Crane Venture Partners has 2 unicorns in its portfolio - Cyberhaven and H2O AI. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Cyberhaven. It became a unicorn in 2025, 5 years after Crane Venture Partners first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in Crane Venture Partners' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
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64 | Developer of a data detection and response security platform | 2016 | San Jose | Series D | ustvibn | ||
64 | Provider of an open-source machine learning platform | 2012 | Mountain View | Series E | euprqme |
Acquired companies in Crane Venture Partners' Portfolio
10 companies from Crane Venture Partners' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Omnius in Aug 2026 by Adesso for $*****.Here are Crane Venture Partners' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Aug 14, 2026 | 2018 | Seed | 6413 | |
Aug 19, 2025 | Jun 25, 2020 | Seed | 3554 | |
Jul 22, 2025 | Oct 10, 2019 | Series A | 3712 | |
Jul 01, 2025 | Apr 20, 2022 | Seed | 6279 | |
Jun 05, 2025 | Oct 18, 2022 | Seed | 3098 |
Team profile of Crane Venture Partners
Crane Venture Partners has a team of 17 members including 5 Partners and 8 Principals located in United Kingdom, United States and 1 more location. Crane Venture Partners' team sits on the board of 1 company.Here is a list of top team members in Crane Venture Partners:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | United Kingdom | - | ||
Partner | London | - | ||
Partner | - | Onfido and Thoughtriver | ||
Partner | London | - | ||
Partner | London | - | - | |
Principal | United Kingdom | - | ||
Principal | London | - | ||
Principal | London | - | ||
Principal | London | - | ||
Principal | London | - | ||
Principal | - | - |
Co-investors of Crane Venture Partners
Over the past 9 years, 439 investors have co-invested in Crane Venture Partners's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Crane Venture Partners: Y Combinator, Seedcamp and 106 others have invested in rounds before Crane Venture Partners. There are 4 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Crane Venture Partners and 3 companies where Seedcamp has invested before Crane Venture Partners.
- Top Co-investors of Crane Venture Partners: 206 investors entered a company along with Crane Venture Partners. These include investors like LocalGlobe (7 companies).
- Invested after Crane Venture Partners: A total of 125 investors have invested in Crane Venture Partners's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Balderton Capital (3 companies), Vertex Ventures (2 companies) and Olivier Pomel (2 companies).
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