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Articles by Aneel Lakhani
Meet Ardent, your data engineering team
The market of LLM wrappers, agents, and agentic everything has exploded over the last two years. Crane spent most of 2023-2024 saying no. But in 2025, we’ve begun saying yes. It’s become clear, at least to us, that the barrier to entry is effectively zero to get an AI product off the ground. And yet it’s also incredibly hard and incredibly tedious to build one that actually works and does what you say it’s going to do consistently over time.
Free-dom to communicate with your users
“Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.”…Richard M Stallman (aka “rms”) Apt when considering how to build an infrastructure software product that has as its core premise, empowering developers with the freedom and flexibility to create meaningful communication with the users of their own product freely and easily.
Announcing Mailchain: The Future of Web3 Communication 📢💌⛓️
When you email someone, you don’t worry about what network they’re on, whether they have other email addresses, the domain [the part after @] the address is in, or even whether you’re reaching the person you want to. When you want to receive email from someone, you just give them your email address. You can have one inbox or many. You can have different newsletters and notifications go wherever you want. You can search for old emails.
Seeding edge native infrastructure, why we invested $3.8M in Mycelial
WebAssem-what? That’s more or less how our journey with Mycelial started. Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the CNCF—who has since joined Crane as an Advisory Partner!!!—suggested that maybe we should be paying attention to WebAssembly and introduced us to Gerred and Michael, who had both been working in OSS at companies we collectively knew about or had had some contact with for more than a decade.
Introducing Liz Zalman and What No One Tells Founders
We’re very excited to introduce Liz Zalman, who, after much polite begging and insistent badgering, has agreed to be a part-time Founder Advisor at Crane. Liz is the Co-Founder and former CEO of both strongDM and Media Armor. Our founders are already benefiting from her many years of experience building companies, finding PMF, and tussling with investors.
Announcing Veratrak’s £5.3M Seed Round to Modernize Pharma Supply Chains 💊📦⛓️
Is there someone in your life who relies on a wonder of modern medicine and science in the form of a life saving therapeutic, aka “drug”, to live a good life? What about just to deal with something they were born with that could make their day to day impossible? Or just to manage their pain? We all do. At Crane, many of us are old enough to have parents that require it.
a16z Podcast: What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations
In the age of the internet — where information is freely available online, and connections between sellers and buyers of software products are visible on LinkedIn — do analysts really matter? Do they play a role in decision-making for purchases from smaller vendors like tech startups, especially given the rise of the developer as a buyer? Or what if you’re trying to create a new category … do you need to be on a Gartner Magic Quadrant or Forrester Wave or similar?
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