About Krishna

Krishna co-founded Crane and has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to back European founders for 20 years, investing across every layer of the enterprise stack. Prior to VC, he had several operational roles including co-founding a deep tech start-up.

Krishna was born and brought up in Malaysia but has spent the last 30 years in the UK.

He is a passionate advocate of the European entrepreneur.

About Scott

Scott co-founded Crane and has been backing European founders for 20 years. He previously spent time in marketing, strategy, research and finance roles before becoming a venture capitalist.

Scott grew up in Texas and is used to being surrounded by humble self-starters. He believes there is so much potential in the future of the enterprise and invests across the stack.

About Bonnie

Bonnie hails from Malaysia and is the Chief Operating Officer at Crane.  She qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen and spent her early career in BDO advising growth companies on all things M&A.

Prior to joining Crane, Bonnie was the Finance Director at Better Capital, a London Stock Exchange listed PE fund focused on operational turnaround.

Bonnie gets a kick out of solving problems and enjoys helping start-ups navigate challenges in their back office.

About Carlos

Carlos is Head of APAC and Partner at Crane Venture Partners, based in Singapore. Previously, he served as a Principal at MassMutual Ventures, where he helped establish the firm’s presence in the APAC and Europe. Before joining MMV, Carlos was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and had previously worked as an Equity Research Associate at BMO Capital Markets. Carlos holds an MPhil in Finance from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Economics from the University of Sussex.

About Anna

Anna moved to the UK to pursue a degree in Computer Science. After working for a few years as a software developer at Goldman Sachs, she joined Crane to be at the heart of innovation. She enjoys diving deep into technical topics and aspires to support and learn from passionate founders.

Born and raised in Barcelona, Anna grew up in an entrepreneurial family. She enjoys spending time outdoors and is always up for a long walk or a thought-provoking conversation (ideally, both combined!)

About Yara

Yara is an investor at Crane Venture Partners, based in London. She brings experience from MassMutual Ventures Europe & APAC, where she led healthtech and biotech investments, and from Oxford Investment Consultants, backing early-stage UK companies. Yara is a trained Biomedical Scientist and holds a DPhil in Cardiovascular Medicine from the University of Oxford, with research that resulted in multiple publications, press coverage, and patents.

About Guy

Guy is a VC, turned operator, turned VC again. He has a deep understanding of both the early and late stage, with a particular focus on performance metrics, system architecture design and operational processes.

Prior to joining Crane, he was a Business Operations Manager at Onfido, the fast growing AI digital identity company (backed by Crane) and was the 15th employee at Flatfair, an early stage fintech, working directly on the GTM before becoming the Operations Lead where he scaled the Ops function.

Guy holds an MBA from INSEAD, represented England Rugby at school boy level and is an avid chess player.

About Max

Max spent the past five years in San Francisco working as an investor. Before joining Crane, he was an Investment Associate at Sierra Ventures, an early-stage venture firm in the Bay Area. There, he led investments in enterprise software companies, focusing on data and AI infrastructure, vertical applications, and developer tooling. Max began his career building companies in Australia, his native country, before joining a venture fund in Singapore and then San Francisco to immerse himself in the world’s leading ecosystems for entrepreneurs and company builders.

About Weijian

Weijian is an investor at Crane Venture Partners. Based in Singapore, he focuses on software, fintech and healthtech investments. He joins Crane from MassMutual Ventures, and previously worked at Partners Group across the private equity and private debt teams. Weijian holds a BSc in Philosophy and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

About Dan

Dan is a Principal based between New York and London, where he partners with founders building transformational software companies.

Before joining Crane, he spent four years at Eniac Ventures in New York, investing in AI application-layer and infrastructure companies. Prior to Eniac, Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs in London on the Emerging Market Equities desk before moving to New York to join the firm’s U.S. Equity Research team, covering consumer internet and video-game companies.

About Sam

Prior to Crane, Sam worked in a seed-stage enterprise software start up where he supported the founders across commercial and operational projects. Through these experiences he developed an empathy and admiration for early stage founders building the next generation of category defining companies. He particularly enjoys unearthing undiscovered founders and working with them prior to a Crane investment.

About Aneel

Aneel has been working in software since before he could drive. He’s moved from engineering to product to marketing at companies like IBM, Cisco, SignalFx, and Honeycomb. He now uses this breadth of experience to lead investments in the next generation of software infrastructure startups and help founders go to market.

Aneel loves helping people succeed and brings this passion to working with Crane companies.

About Cheryl

Cheryl is an investor at Crane Venture Partners, based in Singapore. She joins from MassMutual Ventures where she led investments across APAC & Europe. Cheryl focuses on early-stage investments in healthcare and enterprise software, drawing on her experience across law, business development, and corporate innovation to support founders scaling globally.

About Morgane

Morgane is an investment banker turned software sales leader turned VC. She joined Crane in 2021 to invest into ambitious founders and help them navigate their GTM.

Prior to joining Crane, Morgane was the Sales Director at Tessian, one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in Europe (backed by Crane). Starting as a salesperson when the company was still 10 people, she then moved to a leadership role where she built and scaled the sales function in Europe. She spent her early years in Investment Banking, working closely with Private Equity funds on European LBOs.

About Vivian

Vivian is an investor at Crane Venture Partners, based in Singapore. She joins from MassMutual Ventures, where she focused on early-stage investments across Europe and APAC. Before that, she was a part of Cherry Ventures’ investment team in Berlin and served as a founder’s associate at a German consumer start-up. Originally from Canada, Vivian holds a master’s degree in Strategy and International Management from the University of St. Gallen.

About Rav

Rav has held a number of executive positions in various Enterprise Software companies over the last 20 years, most recently at Slack where, as the first UK employee, he established the London office and founded the global Customer Success team.

No stranger to hyper growth startups, Rav has also built and led post sales business units at Zendesk (ZEN) as well as Yammer (which was acquired by Microsoft).

Rav loves rolling up his sleeves and works closely with Crane portfolio companies on all things Customer Success and Go-To-Market

About Kallie

Kallie Halai joined Crane as an Executive Assistant, bringing with her over 20 years of extensive administrative experience. She has held substantial roles supporting high-level executives at firms including Ecolibrium, Arup, BII (formerly CDC), and Salamanca Group. Kallie holds a BA (Hons) in Business Enterprise and an HND in Business and Marketing.

About Ayala

Ayala entered the enterprise software world as a sales rep and evolved into a customer success manager. She joined Crane from Tessian where she worked with over one hundred legal and financial firms to deliver technology that protects them from security risk.

She loves getting to know new people, understanding their challenges and finding the tools to help them grow. Having been an early member of Tessian’s GTM and Customer Success teams, she aspires to become an extension of our portfolio cos’ teams to scale commercial operations and revenue growth.

Ayala grew up in Israel and Singapore, inspired by people who follow their vision to make it a reality.

About Sheryl

Sheryl, based in Singapore, joins Crane from MassMutual Ventures. She is the Office Manager, supporting the APAC team and managing daily operations. Earlier in her career, she spent more than 20 years at Daimler Group, most recently as Executive Secretary in the financial services division, assisting the CFO. She also held roles at Philips, Great Eastern Life, and Borneo Motors. Sheryl holds a BA (Hons) in Business Administration from Birmingham City University.

About Justyna

Justyna joined Crane in 2022 after twelve years in roles spanning sales, event management, team and office management at a Big 4 firm, a restaurant group and in investment management. She manages the day to day operations at Crane. Her enormous passion for delivering, planning and coordinating complex activities ensures the success of Crane’s mission.

About Richard

Richard brings to Crane over 25 years of success as a technology company marketing executive. The foundation of his background is that of a creative: a filmmaker, producer, musician, and writer. He is passionate about the value of authentic messaging, impactful storytelling and brand consistency in the work he does. His track record includes meaningful outcomes for companies both large and small and most recently, the successful IPO of Pivotal (PVTL), where Richard was the Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Global Real Estate.

Richard is based in London and works with Crane founders on all things product marketing, storytelling, demand generation and organisational design.

About James

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About Ben

Ben brings decades of experience in product management, marketing and sales in every conceivable GTM motion—large enterprise, mid-market, open source, PLS and PLG etc—coupled with having advised over 100 companies from Seed to Series B.

Ben loves rolling up his sleeves and works closely with Crane portfolio companies on all things Go-To-Market.