Herd
/həːd/
Collective noun for Cranes

First to Believe.
Last to Leave.

We support founders through every stage of their journey – from the dream of reshaping industries to delivering impactful products and winning on a global scale.

We Build Foundations Pre-Seed, Seed, UK, EU, US, Israel

We are a small, focused team investing in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups founded by people with deep experience in the problems they’re solving.

We look for software that creates a step change for real businesses. And tools and infrastructure for the creators, builders, and operators of tomorrow.

H2O.ai

H2O.ai Raises $100m at a $1.7 Billion Valuation

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Silverflow

Crane backed former Adyen Execs to build a brand new cloud native platform for payment companies. PSPs and the retailers using them want more insights into data, risk management, loyalty and more. Silverflow can deliver these new functionalities more easily than legacy providers. They are replacing those legacy payment processors in the payment stack. Today they announced their $17m Series A led by Coatue.

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Tessian

Tim, Ed and Tom founded Tessian to tackle the horror of misaddressed sensitive emails. Tessian became the Human Layer Security platform trusted by world-leading businesses. They raised a $65m Series C.

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