Crane Venture Partners

Europe HQ Pre-seed Seed Series-A

01 · Thesis & focus

VC firm investing into seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep tech companies in Europe.

Cheque range
£1M – £5M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed, Series A
Avg deals / year
3.4
Leads rounds
Yes
HQ
London, England, United Kingdom
Fund type
Venture fund

02 · Recent publicly announced deals

OLIX Series B · Aug 2026 · $546.9M total raised ↗

New compute paradigm combining SRAM architecture with photonics to boost throughput and interactivity for frontier AI applications.

Tracebit Series A · Mar 2026 · $25M total raised ↗

Deception technology deploying canaries across cloud environments to detect intrusions with actionable alerts.

Silverflow Series B · Mar 2026 · $79.3M total raised ↗

Cloud-native payment processing platform connecting directly to card networks through a single API.

Encord Series C · Feb 2026 · $110.7M total raised ↗

Data infrastructure layer for multimodal AI development: managing, curating and annotating video, audio, LiDAR and text data.

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