Crane Venture Partners closes four funds totalling $484 million, mostly from MassMutual Ventures

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Crane Venture Partners, founded in London in 2015 by Krishna Visvanathan and Scott Sage, has raised $484 million across four funds: $169 million for Crane III, $150 million for Crane APAC I, $100 million for Crane US I and $65 million for Crane Opportunity Fund I. The firm writes cheques of $500,000 to $5 million from inception to seed, and works from London, San Francisco, New York, Singapore and Bangalore.

Raising four funds sounds like a lot of meetings, but most of the money came from one place. MassMutual Ventures has been behind every Crane fund since 2018 and supplied nearly all of the new capital, the US fund included. The arrangement also runs the other way: since last year Crane has managed MassMutual Ventures' European and Asia-Pacific portfolio, 40 companies valued at $450 million.

The APAC fund began in September 2025 with a $135 million target and has reached $150 million. "Talent is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not," said Visvanathan.