Crane Venture Partners invests in foundational technology from inception through seed across Europe, North America, India and Asia-Pacific. September2026 raised USD484m across CraneIII, APACI, USI and OpportunityI. SinceJuly2025 it administers existing MassMutualVentures Europe/APAC funds and portfolio, which is distinct from original Crane investments.
Founded 2015
Type Venture capital 6 Crane APAC I Announced 2026-09-15
Announcedraised2026-09-15 sourceofficialrecap2026-09-21; fourvehiclesUSD484maggregate notadditionalfund. APACIUSD150mupdatesUSD135mlaunch2025; MMVUSD450madministeredolderpooldistinct.
$150M Crane III Announced 2026-09-15
Announcedraised2026-09-15 sourceofficialrecap2026-09-21; fourvehiclesUSD484maggregate notadditionalfund. APACIUSD150mupdatesUSD135mlaunch2025; MMVUSD450madministeredolderpooldistinct.
$169M Crane Opportunity Fund I Announced 2026-09-15
Announcedraised2026-09-15 sourceofficialrecap2026-09-21; fourvehiclesUSD484maggregate notadditionalfund. APACIUSD150mupdatesUSD135mlaunch2025; MMVUSD450madministeredolderpooldistinct.
$65M Crane US I Announced 2026-09-15
Announcedraised2026-09-15 sourceofficialrecap2026-09-21; fourvehiclesUSD484maggregate notadditionalfund. APACIUSD150mupdatesUSD135mlaunch2025; MMVUSD450madministeredolderpooldistinct.
$100M Crane II Announced 2022-05-24
RaisedsecondfundUSD140m.
$140M Crane I Announced 2019-06-11
FirstinstitutionalfundclosedUSD90m.
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$— 2026-07-13 Nopan Crane Venture Partners $2M 2026-05-13 Hacktron Crane Venture Partners $40M 2026-03-05 Silverflow Crane Venture Partners $60M 2026-02-26 Encord Y Combinator , Crane Venture Partners , Wellington Management , CRV , Harpoon Ventures , Bright Pixel Capital $— 2026-02-06 Chiral Crane Venture Partners , HCVC $10M 2026 Aseon Labs Y Combinator , Crane Venture Partners , Global Founders Capital , Anthropic , Expa $60M 2025-10-20 CoMind Plural , BACKED VC , Crane Venture Partners $15M 2025-09-30 Umony Crane Venture Partners , Notion Capital $13M 2025-09-30 Qovery Crane Venture Partners , Speedinvest , Aneel Lakhani $2M 2025-09-25 Ardent AI Crane Venture Partners $7M 2025-08-20 SRE.ai Crane Venture Partners $20M 2025-08-20 Bluefish Crane Venture Partners $8M 2025-07-24 Memories Crane Venture Partners $— 2025-04-07 PyannoteAI Crane Venture Partners $20M 2025-03-31 Gable Crane Venture Partners , Apoorva Pandhi , Scott Sage $4M 2025-03-26 ConfigHub Crane Venture Partners , Pear VC , Aneel Lakhani , Arash Afrakhteh $2M 2025 Ardent Y Combinator , Crane Venture Partners $12M 2025 Kurrent Creandum , Crane Venture Partners $30M 2024-08-13 Encord Y Combinator , Crane Venture Partners , CRV , N47 , Anna Khan $— 2024-06-17 tinybird Balderton Capital , Crane Venture Partners , CRV $4M 2024 Sandgarden Crane Venture Partners $88M 2024 Cyberhaven Khosla Ventures , Crane Venture Partners , Adams Street Partners , Redpoint Ventures , Citius , Costanoa Ventures , Wing Venture Capital $— 2023-11-16 Silverflow Crane Venture Partners $7M 2023-09-12 Gable Crane Venture Partners , Zetta Venture Partners , Apoorva Pandhi , Scott Sage $3M 2023-05-12 Quaisr Crane Venture Partners $— 2023-01-31 Veratrak Crane Venture Partners $16M 2022-06-14 Next Matter Crane Venture Partners , Scott Sage $3M 2022-06-02 Encore Crane Venture Partners $6M 2022 Novu Crane Venture Partners , ENIAC Ventures $17M 2021-12-16 Silverflow Crane Venture Partners $33M 2021-12-14 Cyberhaven Crane Venture Partners , Wing Venture Capital , Jake Flomenberg $2M 2021-12-14 Zenml Point Nine Capital , Crane Venture Partners $13M 2021-11-15 Virtuoso Crane Venture Partners $100M 2021-11-07 H2O.AI Celesta Capital , Crane Venture Partners $4M 2021-09-28 Qovery Crane Venture Partners , Speedinvest , Aneel Lakhani $20M 2021-09-27 SenseOn Crane Venture Partners $8M 2021-09-16 Fiberplane Crane Venture Partners , Northzone , Notion Capital $19M 2021-05-19 Forecast Crane Venture Partners , James Wise $100M 2021 H2O.AI Celesta Capital , Crane Venture Partners $38M 2020-11-16 Harbr BACKED VC , boldstart ventures , Crane Venture Partners $— 2020-10-22 Silverflow Crane Venture Partners $7M 2020-10-22 EveryoneSocial Crane Venture Partners $— 2020-10-08 Gitpod Speedinvest , Crane Venture Partners $10M 2020-09-07 ThoughtRiver Crane Venture Partners $7M 2020-07-08 PQShield Kindred Ventures , Crane Venture Partners $4M 2020-06-09 Axiom Crane Venture Partners $7M 2020-01-28 Shipamax Y Combinator , Crane Venture Partners , Mosaic Ventures $13M 2019-12-05 Cyberhaven Crane Venture Partners $3M 2019-08-20 Virtuoso QA Crane Venture Partners $50M 2019-04-03 Onfido Crane Venture Partners $11M 2019-02-04 White Star Capital Crane Venture Partners , White Star Capital $13M 2018-06-18 Tessian Balderton Capital , Accel , Amadeus Capital Partners , Crane Venture Partners $30M 2017-09-27 Onfido Crane Venture Partners $40M 2017 H2O.AI Crane Venture Partners , Nexus Venture Partners $— Unknown date Seechange Technologies Crane Venture Partners $— Unknown date Seechange Technologies Crane Venture Partners $12M Unknown date Kurrent Io Crane Venture Partners $38M Unknown date Harbrdata Crane Venture Partners $20M Unknown date Fence Finance Crane Venture Partners $11M Unknown date Atomic Tessellator Crane Venture Partners $6M Unknown date Zenml Point Nine Capital , Crane Venture Partners $6M Unknown date Zenml Crane Venture Partners $— 2026-02-24 nyra health Crane Venture Partners $43M 2026 Bluefish Labs Crane Venture Partners $— 2025-08-20 Bluefish Labs Crane Venture Partners $8M 2025 Memories.ai Crane Venture Partners £8M 2023-11-21 SeeChange Crane Venture Partners , Portfolio Ventures , Triple Point Ventures $6M 2022 Timeseer Crane Venture Partners $20M 2021 Senseon Tech Crane Venture Partners , MMC Ventures $100M 2021 H2O Celesta Capital , Crane Venture Partners $3M 2020 Triggermesh Crane Venture Partners $4M Unknown date Mailchain Crane Venture Partners $100M Unknown date H20 Crane Venture Partners $20M Unknown date Gable Ai Crane Venture Partners $8M Unknown date Foundries.io Crane Venture Partners $3M Unknown date Deta Crane Venture Partners
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team@apexlogos.ai · 37 minutes ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / CraneVenturePartners / sha256:73e9261880964e74ec6796a094e702a373d516781db2fb8a42c57d19110d96b9 / part 2 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
| **CoMind** | Optical/photonics hardware measuring brain physiology non-invasively; both medtech deep tech and direct neurotechnology. | Crane is a named existing investor in the **2025 funding announcement**, with details below. | [Official company announcement, 20 October 2025](https://www.comind.io/news/comind-announces-102-5m-funding-to-redefine-clinical-monitoring-of-the-brain ). |
The [official Crane portfolio](https://crane.vc/portfolio ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06, independently lists PQShield (seed), Quaisr (pre-seed), CoMind (pre-seed) and Chiral. The page mixes current administered holdings and historical direct Crane investments; membership alone cannot resolve original fund attribution. Other portfolio AI/data-infrastructure names and the snapshot's ZenML investment were not automatically classified as deep tech. This is a verified representative set, not an exhaustive portfolio audit.
## Neurotech and adjacent investments
**CoMind — verified direct neurotechnology.** Its CoMind One uses non-invasive sensing to measure cerebral blood flow, autoregulation and intracranial pressure at the bedside. The company explicitly named **Crane** among existing investors participating in its latest Plural-led financing on **20 October 2025**. The announcement's **US$102.5m is cumulative funding**; contemporaneous [Tech.eu reporting, 20 October 2025](https://tech.eu/2025/10/20/non-drill-brain-monitoring-startup-comind-raises-over-100m/ ) identifies the included **US$60m Series A**. [DLA Piper, 3 November 2025](https://www.dlapiper.com/en/news/2025/11/dla-piper-advise-groundbreaking-uk-brain-monitoring-start-up-comind-on-funding-round ) corroborates the new $60m and low-power infrared measurement approach. Crane's official portfolio labels its entry pre-seed, which is compatible with a later Series A follow-on. Initial investment date, exact Crane vehicle, stake and cheque are undisclosed in sources checked. This is brain-physiology monitoring, not an established brain-computer interface or proven regulatory approval; the company described funding toward approval and further trials.
**nyra health — qualified digital neurorehabilitation exposure.** AI-supported software myReha and clinician platform nyra insights address recovery after stroke, brain injury and neurological conditions. This is neurotherapy/digital therapeutics, **not demonstrated neural recording or stimulation hardware**. [EU-Startups, 24 February 2026](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/02/with-e65-billion-lost-each-year-to-stroke-and-dementia-in-germany-nyra-health-secures-e20-million-to-scale-digital-neurotherapy/ ) reports an **€20m Series A**, led by Armira Growth, with Wellington Partners, Crane and EVER Pharma. Crucially, it says Crane now oversees MMV's investments: do not retroactively label the earlier **€4.5m 2023 seed** as a direct Crane-originated investment. [Company recruitment text hosted on Crane's job board, posted 30 June 2026](https://careers.crane.vc/companies/nyra-health-2/jobs/84574265-stay-on-our-radar-m-f-x ) corroborates products and €20m Series A. Exact ownership/vehicle attribution remains unresolved.
No other direct neurotechnology holding was independently established in this focused search. Mental-health software such as HelloBetter, general medical imaging such as Qure.ai, and other health/biotech portfolio entries should not be promoted to direct neurotech without separate technology and transaction evidence.
## Conflicts, gaps and concrete Adex review notes
1. Update research context for the **15 September 2026 four-fund announcement**. Store individual vehicles separately; mark $484m aggregate, $450m administered MMV capital separately, and the $135m-to-$150m APAC revision as chronology rather than two funds.
2. The snapshot's Europe-only description and Signal's $140m current-fund figure are outdated relative to the current global inception/seed strategy. Location entries should be reconciled against official office/team information rather than inferred from Signal ordering.
3. Preserve **MMV-origin versus direct Crane investment** attribution. The July 2025 administration agreement does not establish that all inherited companies were originally backed by Crane. [Official team page](https://crane.vc/team ), undated, also documents partners' prior MMV and Sequoia/Peak XV experience, which is distinct from firm investment history.
4. CoMind merits a direct neurotech annotation, sourced to its own announcement; normalize capitalization and distinguish cumulative $102.5m from the $60m round. Resolve the original pre-seed date/vehicle if needed. nyra health needs an explicit neurorehabilitation/administration caveat.
5. PQShield's pound and dollar amounts need currency-preserving handling; source date is July 2020, with an 8 July URL and displayed 10 July publication date. Quaisr's missing date can be reviewed against 12 May 2023 reporting.
6. Snapshot aliases include H2O/H2O.AI/H20, Bluefish/Bluefish Labs, Memories/Memories.ai, Gable/Gable Ai, SeeChange/Seechange Technologies, Harbr/Harbrdata and Kurrent/Kurrent Io. Deduplicate only after company/round identity verification. The row naming **White Star Capital** as an investee points to a TechCrunch article about **Aire** and appears to be an extraction problem; it was not validated as an investment in another VC firm.
7. H2O.ai and similar founding-team track records may span prior employers; contemporary [Tech.eu 2019 reporting](https://tech.eu/2019/06/11/london-based-crane-venture-partners-closes-90-million-seed-fund-for-enterprise-startups-across-europe ) distinguishes earlier investments as a team from new Crane investments. Do not turn all partner history into firm-owned exposure.
8. Material unknowns: consolidated AUM, exact legal final closes for every 2026 vehicle, current firm cheque policy, fund-specific participation and ownership stakes, plus exhaustive neurotech coverage. Searches covered saved Adex data, Signal firm/team profiles, official portfolio and fund news, named-company announcements and focused neurotech/deep-tech reporting. These limitations do not negate the verified examples above.
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team@apexlogos.ai · 37 minutes ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / CraneVenturePartners / sha256:73e9261880964e74ec6796a094e702a373d516781db2fb8a42c57d19110d96b9 / part 1 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
# Crane Venture Partners
- Exact Adex ID: `CraneVenturePartners`
- Canonical Adex URL: https://adex.page/firms/CraneVenturePartners
- Official website: https://crane.vc/
- Research date / access date for all sources: 2026-10-06
- Research status: complete for the requested review scope; research only, no Adex changes made.
## Summary
Crane is a 2015-founded venture firm whose present mandate is foundational technology investing from inception through seed across Europe, North America, India and Asia-Pacific. Its latest-known announced capital is **US$484 million across four vehicles**, announced 15 September 2026, rather than one $484 million fund. Verified deep-tech examples include Chiral, PQShield, Quaisr and CoMind. **CoMind is a verified direct neurotechnology investment**; nyra health is a separately qualified digital neurorehabilitation exposure with inherited MassMutual attribution. [2026 firm announcement](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/09/15/3362148/0/en/crane-venture-partners-announces-the-next-chapter-in-early-stage-global-venture-capital.html ), [2022 firm announcement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crane-venture-partners-raises-140-million-for-its-second-fund-to-empower-the-builders-of-the-worlds-digital-infrastructure-301553468.html ).
## Adex and NFX starting evidence
The exact-ID snapshot `data/research/_sources/CraneVenturePartners.adex.json`, retrieved 2026-10-06, contains a 2015 founding date, a London/European seed and early-stage intelligent-enterprise/deep-technology description, official/Signal/Goldi URLs, null firm check-size fields, numerous team roles and investment rows. Its linked article on ZenML is dated 23 October 2023 despite an undated investment row. It includes Chiral, PQShield, CoMind (spelled `Comind`), nyra health, Quaisr, numerous ordinary enterprise software companies and multiple duplicate aliases. These are leads rather than independently verified evidence.
[NFX Signal firm profile](https://signal.nfx.com/firms/crane-venture-partners ), undated, was directly read through web text extraction. It reproduces the London/European early-stage description and founded-2015 claim, but also shows New York, London, Singapore and United Kingdom location entries. Firm team details were additionally available in the search index: Scott Sage, partner, $100,000–$5 million range/$1.5 million sweet spot; Krishna Visvanathan, partner, $750,000–$3 million/$2 million sweet spot; Anandamoy Roychowdhary, managing director, much wider $100,000–$100 million/$10 million sweet spot. These personal profile figures are not validated firm check policies.
[Scott Sage's Signal profile](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/scott-sage ), undated, search-index read, lists a $140 million current fund, enterprise/SaaS/cybersecurity seed and Series A rankings and historical pre-seed/seed roles at Quaisr, Encord and others. The $140 million figure appears stale relative to the September 2026 official fundraising. Complete investment listings require sign-in; profile experience includes Molten Ventures and must not be treated as exclusively Crane attribution. Signal is a discovery source, not independent investment confirmation.
## Fund size and stage
| Vehicle / capital category | Amount | Announcement / status | Evidence and interpretation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crane I | US$90m | 11 June 2019; closed first institutional fund | [Tech.eu, 11 June 2019](https://tech.eu/2019/06/11/london-based-crane-venture-partners-closes-90-million-seed-fund-for-enterprise-startups-across-europe ). |
| Crane II | US$140m | 24 May 2022; announced raised | [Firm-issued PRNewswire release, 24 May 2022](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crane-venture-partners-raises-140-million-for-its-second-fund-to-empower-the-builders-of-the-worlds-digital-infrastructure-301553468.html ). Early-stage software/deep tech in Europe, Israel and US. |
| Crane APAC I, original launch | US$135m | 15 September 2025; fund launch, not explicitly described as final close in the checked extract | [Firm-issued release, 15 September 2025](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/09/15/3149637/0/en/Crane-Venture-Partners-Launches-135M-APAC-I-Fund.html ). India, Singapore and Australia; seed to Series A, early first checks and follow-ons. |
| Crane III | US$169m | 15 September 2026; announced raised | [Official firm recap, 21 September 2026](https://crane.vc/ideas/big-week-for-crane-even-bigger-for-founders ). |
| Crane APAC I, updated announcement | US$150m | 15 September 2026; announced raised | Same recap. This revises the previously announced $135m amount; do not count the two APAC amounts as separate funds. |
| Crane US I | US$100m | 15 September 2026; announced raised | Same recap. |
| Crane Opportunity Fund I | US$65m | 15 September 2026; announced raised | Same recap. Exact allocation/follow-on eligibility not established in sources checked. |
| Four-vehicle 2026 total | US$484m | 15 September 2026; capital raised, not a target | [Official announcement, 15 September 2026](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/09/15/3362148/0/en/crane-venture-partners-announces-the-next-chapter-in-early-stage-global-venture-capital.html ). Sum of the four vehicles above, not additional capital beyond them. |
| MMV Europe/APAC funds under Crane administration | US$450m | 7 July 2025; agreement to administer funds and 40 portfolio companies | [Joint firm-issued announcement, 7 July 2025](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/07/07/3110731/0/en/MassMutual-Ventures-and-Crane-Venture-Partners-announce-expanded-partnership.html ). Existing managed fund pool, not a newly raised Crane fund. |
The current official strategy explicitly covers **inception through seed**, across Europe, North America, India and APAC. [Crane's 15 September 2026 strategy article](https://crane.vc/ideas/the-worlds-best-founders-arent-moving-to-us-our-capital-needs-to-move-to-them ). The 2025 APAC strategy extended to Series A and current portfolio labels include later-stage entries, but neither justifies describing all new Crane first investments as multistage. Historical follow-on rounds below differ from initial entry stage. No verified current uniform check range, total consolidated AUM or detailed fund legal closing dates was found; do not sum the $450m managed pool with the $484m raise as if there were no overlap.
## Named deep-tech investments
Amounts below are total company rounds, not Crane's contribution.
| Company | Technology rationale | Verified firm attribution, round and date | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Chiral / Chiral Nano AG** | Nanomaterial-based semiconductor and quantum technology; robotic/nanoscale assembly toward wafer-scale post-silicon chips. Strong physical deep-tech fit. | Crane led **US$12m seed**, closed and announced **6 February 2026**; Quantonation, HCVC and Founderful also participated, alongside Innosuisse public funding. | [Investee-issued GlobeNewswire release, 6 February 2026](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/02/06/3233564/0/en/Chiral-raises-12M-to-unlock-post-silicon-computing-beyond-Moore-s-Law.html ). Source packages seed financing and public funding; Crane cheque and public/equity split not disclosed. |
| **PQShield** | Quantum-resistant cryptography for software, hardware IP and connected systems; cryptographic research commercialization, not a quantum-computer manufacturer. | Crane named in **£5.5m seed** alongside Kindred Capital, Oxford Sciences Innovation and angels, **July 2020**. Snapshot's US$7m is a reported dollar equivalent, not an additional round. | [UKTN, displayed 10 July 2020; URL dated 8 July](https://www.uktech.news/news/pqshield-raises-55m-led-by-kindred-to-secure-sensitive-information-for-the-quantum-era-20200708 ); [official Crane investee page, undated](https://crane.vc/company/pqshield/ ); [PQShield retrospective, 27 October 2020](https://pqshield.com/reflecting-on-the-months-since-our-seed-funding/ ) corroborates July seed announcement. |
| **Quaisr** | Research-derived digital twins and computational modeling for heavy industry, chemical processes and materials discovery. Qualifies through scientific/engineering simulation, not generic enterprise SaaS alone. | Crane led **US$3.1m pre-seed**, reported **12 May 2023**. Founded by Imperial/Turing researchers. | [The Alan Turing Institute, 12 May 2023](https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/quaisr-raises-31-million-develop-digital-twins-industry ). Original snapshot omitted the date. | SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 22 days ago
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Y Combinator
Encord$60M · 2026-02-26
Aseon Labs$10M · 2026
Ardent$2M · 2025
Shipamax$7M · 2020-01-28
Scott Sage
Gable$20M · 2025-03-31
Next Matter$16M · 2022-06-14
Notion Capital
Umony$15M · 2025-09-30
Fiberplane$8M · 2021-09-16
Wing Venture Capital
Cyberhaven$88M · 2024
Amadeus Capital Partners
Tessian$13M · 2018-06-18
Anthropic
Arash Afrakhteh
ConfigHub$4M · 2025-03-26
boldstart ventures
Harbr$38M · 2020-11-16
ENIAC Ventures
Novu$6M · 2022
Jake Flomenberg
James Wise
Forecast$19M · 2021-05-19
Khosla Ventures
Kindred Ventures
PQShield$7M · 2020-07-08
MMC Ventures
Nexus Venture Partners
H2O.AI$40M · 2017
Northzone
Portfolio Ventures
Triple Point Ventures
White Star Capital
Zetta Venture Partners
