Rav Dhaliwal

Rav Dhaliwal is a London-based GTM Venture Partner at Crane Venture Partners, where he focuses on supporting early-stage B2B and deep tech portfolio companies. Over a 20-year career in the enterprise software sector, he has built and directed commercial operations for several major technology firms. As Slack's first employee in the United Kingdom, he established the company's London office and founded its global customer success team. Previously, he held executive sales and leadership positions at Zendesk and Yammer prior to its acquisition by Microsoft, following earlier roles at Salesforce and IBM. In his current role, he also supports the firm's geographic expansion across Asia, Australia, India, and the United States. Dhaliwal ultimately leverages his extensive commercial background to help technical founders in data, infrastructure, and machine learning develop scalable go-to-market strategies and customer success functions.