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Aneel Lakhani

Investor at Crane Venture Partners

Brooklyn, New York

Overview 

Aneel Lakhani is a Seed VC with a strong track record of investing in and advising startups, including Deta, Nuclia, and Veratrak. Currently serving as an Investor and Advisory Partner at Crane Venture Partners, he specializes in Enterprise Infrastructure, Supply Chain Tech, and FinTech sectors, demonstrating expertise in product management, go-to-market strategy, and cross-functional team leadership. Highlights of Aneel's career include his roles as a Seed Investor and Board Member at Deta and Veratrak, showcasing his ability to identify promising startups and provide strategic guidance for their growth and success in the market. His investments in companies like Deta, Nuclia, and Veratrak highlight his keen eye for identifying high-potential ventures and supporting them in their journey to success.

Work Experience 

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Crane Venture Partners

  • Investor

    2021 - Current

    Leading Pre-Seed and Seed investments in the next generation of software infrastructure startups and helping founders go to market. Areas of interest include: dev infra, data infra / platforms, ML infra / platforms, vertical AI products, supply chain modernization, fintech, Boring Things.

  • Advisory Partner

    2020 - 2021

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Deta

  • Seed Investor and Board Member

    2022

    Deta is crafting a new OS with you at the center, putting you firmly in control. Meet Space OS, your new home on the web.

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Veratrak

  • Seed Investor and Board Member

    2022

    The supply chain SaaS product custom-built for the life sciences industry. Veratrak is the first platform to enable pharma companies to directly connect with and manage their manufacturing, packaging, and logistics partners in one place.

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Nuclia

  • Seed Investor and Board Observer

    2022

    Nuclia makes the unsearchable, searchable. AI powered search for unstructured data that you can use to power search against video, pdfs, powerpoints, images, audio, whatever--in any app or service with a simple API integration. Creators of the open source NucliaDB, the first vector database built for unstructured data.

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Mycelial

  • Seed Investor

    2021

    Mycelial is takes all the work of maintaining and moving state around for edge applications (IoT, ships at sea, EV charging stations, etc) and makes it as simple as 1/ import library, 2/ set a number, 3/ get a number—using the power of WASM and CRDTs. Building edge native infrastructure.

Mycelial unifies Edge and Cloud SQLite instances peer-to-peer and without any data middleware.

Raised $3,800,000.00 from Crane Venture Partners.

mycelial.co
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Béa Fertility

  • Angel Investor

    2023

    Béa aim is to make a transformative and inclusive new fertility offering—Intracervical insemination [ICI]—to people who are struggling to conceive, with a focus on widening access to care for LGBTQ families and groups traditionally excluded from existing fertility provision.

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Overmind

  • Angel Investor

    2022

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Caribou

  • Angel Investor

    2022

Caribou is healthcare planning software for the financial service industry.

Raised $3,075,000.00 from N49P, Boon Fund, Altman Capital, Leslie Schreck, Jean-Denis Greze, Garage Capital, Arjun Sethi and Dash Fund.

caribouwealth.com

Stepsize

  • Seed Investor

    2022

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Calyptia Inc.

  • Angel Investor

    2021

    Acquired by Chronosphere

Calyptia collects process and route all of your data, with security & performance in mind.

Raised $5,000,000.00 from Sierra Ventures, Carbide Ventures and ACTAI Ventures.

calyptia.com

Education 

Investments 

Deta

Seed

Total funding: $4M

Nuclia

Seed Round

Total funding: $10M

Veratrak

Seed Round

Total funding: $9.2M

Mycelial

Seed

Total funding: $4M

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