Krishna Visvanathan co-founded Crane in 2015, a London based VC firm focused on early-stage investments in European start-ups that are redefining the enterprise technology stack. Crane's investments include Tessian, Harbr, Onfido, H2O.ai, Forecast, Shipamax, Thought River, Axiom, CoMind and Silverflow amongst others. Prior to Crane, he was a Partner at DFJ Esprit and 3i Group plc and has been a venture investor in Europe since 1999. 

Krishna started his career at Ernst & Young before founding Optika Fibre Technologies, a display technology start-up based in SE Asia. He has a B.Sc. degree in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.