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Crane Venture Partners

VC
London, UKWebsite

Crane Venture Partners is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in London, UK investing in SaaS, Developer Tools. The firm typically writes $250K–$3.0M checks and has 9 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$250K–$3.0M
Portfolio
9 companies on record
Partners
7 listed
AUM
$450M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
SaaS, Developer Tools
HQ
London, UK

Last verified: 2026-06-28

Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $3.0M

AUM

$450M

Portfolio

9+ companies

Team

7 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Early-stage B2B SaaS investor focused on data-driven, developer-enabled and workflow products; often supports US-bound companies.

How Crane Venture Partners invests

Crane Venture Partners is a vc firm based in London, UK. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Developer Tools.

Crane Venture Partners typically writes checks of $250K–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $450M in assets under management.

Crane Venture Partners has backed 9 companies in our records, including Snyk, Rasa, Confluent.

Partners & Team

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Richard Snee

Chief Marketing Officer

AP

Ayala Ples

Platform Manager

JS

James Spencer

General Counsel

MC

Max Chapman

Principal

MZ

Morgane Zerath

Principal

KV

Krishna Visvanathan

Co-founder

BW

Ben Wright

GTM Partner

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Developer Tools

Portfolio Companies (9)

Other

SN

Snyk

Developer security platform
RA

Rasa

Developer tools / AI
CO

Confluent

Data infrastructure
CO

CoMind

CY

Cyberhaven

GA

Gable

SR

SRE.ai

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Crane I LP (CIK 0001747988)

SEC Form D filing mentioning Crane Venture Partners

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Crane III LP (CIK 0002051161)

SEC Form D filing mentioning Crane Venture Partners

How to pitch Crane Venture Partners
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in SaaS, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $3.0M check.
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Richard Snee, Chief Marketing Officer.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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