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Many say that the most important thing about your work is the people - the right team is what it takes to build a good product and bring it to customers who need it.
We just launched our new *portfolio careers board* to help you find your new team 👪 careers.crane.vc/jobs
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I’m Shawn, founder of Memories.ai, former researcher at Meta and CS PhD at University of Cambridge.
Today we’re launching Memories.ai: we built the world’s first Large Visual Memory Model - to give AI human-like visual memories.
Why visual memory?
AI to date is chat-based, which has great applications, but humans are not only chat based. Humans have visual-memories, and are visually driven. Memories.ai enables AI agents, softwares, and even robots to see and remember the world the way humans do.
We just raised an $8m seed round led by @susaventures to build the visual-memory layer for AI.
Why is Memories.ai so groundbreaking? 👇
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We're thrilled to announce @crane_vc's expanded partnership into Asia-Pacific with MassMutual Ventures. This means $450 million of capital across new investments and portfolio will be overseen by Crane, significantly strengthening our global support for early-stage founders in Europe and APAC.
Since 2015, we've backed remarkable companies across post-quantum security, robotics, infrastructure software/tools, and AI systems.
We believe in early conviction and long-term commitment – being "first to believe, last to leave." This partnership reinforces that commitment, now with even greater reach and deeper insights to help founders scale.
A huge thank you to all our founders, LPs, team and supporters.
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@limebike I cycle to work on my personal bike and every day I struggle to access a bike rack to lock my bike. There are Lime bikes against every single bike rack on the street I work on as well as on the street perpendicular. @CityWestminster and @limebike please advise
@limebike once again all bike racks on Noel street and Berwick street are occupied by Lime bikes this morning. No space for me to lock my bike. Please can you address this?
Earlier today I struggled to get my bike out of the bike rack that I had locked it to as there were @limebike bikes surrounding my bike on all sides including behind it on the pavement. This is a health and safety hazard to all pavement users. This is on Noel Street in London
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Proud of our founders for putting @crane_vc among the top 5% value-add investors in Europe according to @dealroomco. Startups that raise Seed funding from top 5% VC funds are 4.5x more likely to secure Series A funding compared to those that raise from bottom 25% funds.
First to believe, last to leave.
These 40 funds (alphabetically) represent the very best of EMEA's value-add investors.
Explore full methodology and findings.
dealroom.co/reports/explorin…
@lambeth_council I couldn’t cycle on my usual route home last night on Exton Street off of Waterloo roundtable because it was completely blocked by hundreds of @limebike s. Please can you advise what’s being done to address this? Most days this road is half blocked by like bikes.
@limebike I couldn’t turn into the road I use to cycle home yesterday. Secker Road by Waterloo was totally blocked off by hundreds of lime bikes. It was impossible to drive or cycle on the road. I’m confused - is this within your policy? What will you do to address this?
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👋 We've just begun the next stage in AI's development. It's not about leaping some imaginary new hurdle; it's about making AI more accessible to the people that want to use it.
Tell us if you'd like to join our next AI Bridge Series & where we should come to next.
@crane_vc is back to school and we're celebrating in style in Paris this year! After taking our AI GTM event to a few European cities including Paris and Berlin, founders have asked for more...
We're back in Paris with new content on the 11th September ⬇️
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We're thrilled to announce the newest addition to the @crane_vc investment team, 🇦🇺 @MaxChapman___!!
For the past 5 years, Max has been working in SF, most recently at Sierra Ventures where he was leading investments into enterprise software companies, focusing on data/AI infra, vertical apps, and dev tools.
Please join us in welcoming Max to London + Europe!! linkedin.com/in/max-chapman-…
I'm excited for this!! Join us if you're integrating into your products and want to learn from founders and product teams who have done this
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A reminder to women leading startups in Europe and Israel! The @GoogleforStartups Accelerator is accepting applications for the Women Founders cohort until Jan 19. It's a 12 week program: goo.gle/WF_Europe24
At @crane_vc we're excited to invest in new pre-seed & seed b2b saas teams this year (infra, data, open source, devtool, security, AI). Our USP - an entire team who works with founders post investment on GTM: positioning, sales, customer success and more.
Here’s a glimpse into our recent GTM meet-ups:
- AI founder & enterprise practitioner meet-up in London (April)
- AI founder & enterprise practitioner meet-up in Paris (July)
- Our annual GTM summit in London (October)
- Data community meet-up in London (October)
We’ll keep bringing people together to talk and learn about building and selling technical products to technical buyers. We love creating opportunities for connections and meeting members of our community in person!
Calling women-led startups in Europe and Israel! Applications for the @GoogleforStartups Accelerator: Women Founders cohort is now open. Learn more about the 12-week, equity-free program and apply: goo.gle/WF_Europe24
Last Thurs in Helsinki for @SlushHQ, @scalevp & our team at @crane_vc brought together 100+ early stage b2b saas founders. Thanks for the awesome conversations and looking forward to keeping in touch! (DM if you'd like to keep in touch about future founders meet-ups) #slush2023
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How come I have so many Israeli friends and I’m yet to back an Israeli founder??
If you are an Israeli founder, who
A) looks for angel investment 👉 DM me and I’ll angel invest if I know your space and I’m additive, AND will make intros to other angels
B) you are raising 👉 DM and I’ll do a dry run pitch practice, give you feedback on the deck and intro you to VCs and angels or coach how to raise from a position of strength if you’re raising an extension/bridge
C) you are building in dev tools(the space I know) and are not raising but you could use an intro to someone in my network, customer or talent or use my presence to amplify somthing, DM
I know this isn’t much, but I respect the startup nation and honor the chutzpah spirit and you should never feel alone