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The London VC That Would Rather Fund a Database Than a Dating App
Krishna Visvanathan and Scott Sage have spent two decades funding the plumbing beneath enterprise software. With a fresh $135M APAC fund and about $450M under management, Crane is betting the next category leaders start with infrastructure, not pitch decks.
Circular
Circular is a Singapore-based, Y Combinator-backed startup that lets people and businesses subscribe to premium tech devices - iPhones, MacBooks, iPads, ThinkPads - for a flexible monthly fee instead of buying them outright. When a subscription ends, the device is returned, refurbished, and passed on to the next customer, aiming for roughly six subscription cycles before recycling. The model spreads the cost of a device across several users, undercuts retailer payment plans, and keeps working electronics out of landfills.
MindFi
MindFi is a Singapore-based corporate mental health platform that helps global employers care for their people. Through a single app it offers on-demand therapy and coaching, 24/7 text and chat support, guided self-care programs, and community support, matching employees to culturally relevant, multilingual providers. Founded in 2017 and a Y Combinator Summer 2021 company, MindFi positions itself as an APAC-first alternative to Western employee-assistance programs, blending clinical care with wellbeing analytics for HR teams.
Fortisphere
Fortisphere is a Sydney-based AI transformation, operations and advisory firm founded in 2024 by former Commvault support leader Eugene Trautwein. It helps businesses turn AI ambition into practical results through advisory, benchmarking, workflow redesign, automation and fractional operating leadership, and runs an innovation lab that incubates its own SaaS products - starting with ResumeUplift.com, a tool that helps jobseekers beat AI resume filters.
ISATEC
ISATEC is a Malaysia-based enterprise software and IT services company that helps large enterprises and governments across Asia-Pacific with digital transformation, observability, application performance, cybersecurity, cloud modernization and intelligent automation. Founded in 1994 and based in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, it is a long-standing Dynatrace and Microsoft partner and an associate company of the regional IT group VSTECS, building products such as the KUBE low-code automation platform, the justSAMit IT asset management service and the SAMLite/IdentityLite identity tools.