Foundations - Crane Venture Partners

The right resources at the right time.

At Crane Venture Partners, we believe that building strong foundations is key to long-term success. By providing founders with the right resources at the right time—whether it’s strategic go-to-market support, expert guidance, or a powerful network—we ensure they have everything they need to scale their vision. From early belief to global success, we help founders lay the groundwork for innovation and growth, turning bold ideas into lasting impact.

Rav Dhaliwal, Venture Partner

Rav was an early employee at Slack, Zendesk and Yammer, where he built the Customer Success functions and now supports Crane portfolio companies on all things GTM and CS.

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Create GTM Leverage

Everyone at Crane—from investors to operating partners to our large network of advisors and founders—have spent decades working with technical founding teams to grow through PMF into scaling their GTM around the world. PMF can be hard, but finding GTM fit is when startups really take off.

Aneel Lakhani, Venture Partner

Aneel started as an engineer, found a love for Product Marketing and was the first marketing hire at SignalFx and Honeycomb. Now he supports Crane portfolio companies in the earliest stages of GTM.

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