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Crane Venture Partners portfolio
Crane Venture Partners has 15 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 5 investments in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is a venture capital firm based in London, GB, founded in 2015. It led 2 of the 10 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Peppermint Robotics's $10.57M Series B+ round in November 2026, which it led, alongside Pi Ventures and Asiana Fund. By category, its portfolio leans toward Developer tools and cloud (8) and Robotics and hardware (3). It has co-invested with Y Combinator, Transition and Fundomo, most often Y Combinator (2 rounds).
About Crane Venture Partners
Funds raised
| Fund | Fund # | Size | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | $484M | CryptoRank | |
| - | $135M | GlobeNewswire |
What Crane Venture Partners invests in
- Developer tools and cloud · 8 · 53%
- Robotics and hardware · 3 · 20%
- Cybersecurity · 3 · 20%
- AI agents · 3 · 20%
- Health and bio · 2 · 13%
- AI infrastructure and compute · 2 · 13%
- AI coding and devtools · 2 · 13%
- Fintech · 2 · 13%
Crane Venture Partners recent investments
| Company | Round | Date | Alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B+ · $10.57M · lead | Pi Ventures (lead), Asiana Fund | ||
| Seed · $5.3M | Standard Capital, Ritual Capital, Y Combinator +6 | ||
| Series B+ · $312M | Hudson River Trading, Hummingbird VC, Arm +6 | ||
| Series B+ · $100M | Costanoa Ventures, Khosla Ventures (lead), Adams Street Partners (lead) +6 | ||
| Series A · $220M | Entrepreneurs First, Plural Platform, LocalGlobe +4 | ||
| Series A · $13M · lead | IRIS (lead), Alexis Le-Quoc, Sebastien Pahl +5 | ||
| Series A · $15M | Thomas Wolf, Notion Capital (lead), Seedcamp | ||
| Series B+ · $30M | Y Combinator, N47 (lead), CRV |
How Crane Venture Partners invests
Crane Venture Partners portfolio companies
PPeppermint Robotics$10.57MSeries B+ · Nov 2026
EExpanse$5.3MSeed · Sep 2026
OOLIX$312MSeries B+ · Aug 2026
CCyberhaven$100MSeries B+ · Apr 2026
QQovery$13MSeries A · Sep 2025
UUmony$15MSeries A · Sep 2025
EEncord$30MSeries B+ · Aug 2024
TTinybird$37MSeries A · Apr 2022
BBluefishbacker
OOnabacker
OOuterlimitbacker
HHacktron AIbacker
FFoundriesbacker
GGigsbacker
CCoMindbacker
| Company | Round with Crane Venture Partners | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Health and bio |
Series B+ · $10.57M · lead | $14.54M | Nov 4, 2026 Series B+ |
AI infrastructure and compute |
Seed · $5.3M | $5.3M | Sep 16, 2026 Seed |
AI infrastructure and compute |
Series B+ · $312M | $532M | Aug 3, 2026 Series B+ |
Cybersecurity |
Series B+ · $100M | $146M | Apr 24, 2026 Series B+ |
AI coding and devtools |
Series A · $13M · lead | $17M | Sep 30, 2025 Series A |
Fintech |
Series A · $15M | $15M | Sep 30, 2025 Series A |
Robotics and hardware |
Series B+ · $30M | $90M | Feb 27, 2026 Series B+ |
Data and analytics |
Series A · $37M | $67M | May 5, 2025 Series B+ |
Sales and marketing |
backer · source | $63M | Apr 14, 2026 Series B+ |
AI coding and devtools |
backer · source | undisclosed | — |
AI agents |
backer | $16M | Sep 22, 2026 Pre-seed |
Legal and compliance |
backer | undisclosed | May 13, 2026 Seed |
Developer tools and cloud |
backer | undisclosed | Feb 17, 2026 Seed |
Fintech |
backer | $73M | Jun 18, 2026 Series B+ |
Health and bio |
backer | undisclosed | — |
Most frequent co-investors
YY Combinator2 shared rounds · last Sep 16, 2026TTransition2 shared rounds · last Aug 3, 2026
FFundomo2 shared rounds · last Aug 3, 2026
HHummingbird VC2 shared rounds · last Aug 3, 2026
CCostanoa Ventures2 shared rounds · last Apr 24, 2026
VVertex Ventures US2 shared rounds · last Feb 11, 2026
CCRV2 shared rounds · last Aug 13, 2024
PPi Ventures1 shared round · last Nov 4, 2026
AAsiana Fund1 shared round · last Nov 4, 2026
SScribble Ventures1 shared round · last Sep 16, 2026
SStandard Capital1 shared round · last Sep 16, 2026PPXN Ventures1 shared round · last Sep 16, 2026
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Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Developer tools and cloud).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Venture funds Crane Venture Partners raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.
Share is of the 10 rounds on Recent Funding that name Crane Venture Partners. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.
Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Crane Venture Partners, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/crane-venture-partners (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.
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