Crane Venture Partners
Crane Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Krishna Visvanathan and Scott Sage that backs outlier founders everywhere, from inception to seed, building the foundational technologies that shape the future: AI infrastructure, semiconductors, developer innovations, enterprise systems, data infrastructure, security and hard tech. Originally London-based and focused on European enterprise founders, Crane describes itself as one firm "global by design" with offices in London, San Francisco, New York, Singapore and Bangalore. Its published portfolio of 115 companies includes Encord, Ona (acquired by OpenAI), Tessian (acquired by Proofpoint), Qure.ai, Zluri and TestSigma.
Crane Venture Partners has 115 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 53 (46%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 49 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Novu, Griffin, Paid, PyannoteAI, ConfigHub.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 23 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Emerging 10 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
Rest of Portfolio
13 further portfolio companies that don’t yet have a provider page on the network.
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Portfolio
Where the firm publishes its investments
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 45 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Crane Venture Partners, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 41.8 | 23.8 | +18 | 45 |
| Access Clarity | 41.9 | 26.5 | +15.4 | 45 |
| Contract Quality | 30.6 | 17.7 | +12.9 | 45 |
| Operational Transparency | 20.8 | 13.2 | +7.6 | 45 |
| Discoverability | 64 | 58 | +6 | 45 |
| Contract Governance | 11.1 | 7 | +4.1 | 45 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 31% | 15% | +16 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 31% | 13% | +18 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 9% | 12% | -3 |
| Security | 98% | 98% | 0 |
| Arazzo workflows | 7% | 2% | +5 |
| Governance rules | 20% | 18% | +2 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
- 1 IMMIX {"score" => 63.2, "band" => "agent-native"}
- 2 Novu {"score" => 61.2, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 3 Qovery {"score" => 55.4, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 4 Encore {"score" => 47.9, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 5 Kurrent {"score" => 46.5, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 6 OpenSensors {"score" => 44.2, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 7 Hacktron {"score" => 43.7, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 8 Silverflow {"score" => 43, "band" => "agent-native"}
- 9 Fence {"score" => 40, "band" => "agent-ready"}
- 10 Phone Inc {"score" => 38.5, "band" => "agent-ready"}
Coverage caveat. 35 of 45 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 2 November 2026, across 37080 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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