Rav Dhaliwal

Investor, Board Member, Author, Venture & Limited Partner at Crane Venture Partners | Top 25 Customer Success Influencer 2021 & 2022

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Jan 2026
The latest generation of AI models achieves breakthrough performance by spending vastly more tokens to solve complex problems. Demand is now compounding faster than the infrastructure beneath it can scale. The constraint sits in how tokens are made. Producing a token is not one operation but many, each placing different demands on hardware, yet every AI system in production runs them all on the same general purpose chip. Moving work between chips has always cost too much energy and time for anything else to be viable. That compromise is why the current approach cannot deliver high throughput and high interactivity at low cost, however large the single chip grows, and and why tokens remain scarce and expensive. Continuing AIs advance, and making it available to everyone, requires the datacentre to be rebuilt the way every great factory has been built: as a production line, with specialised machines and fast, cheap movement between them. OLIX is building that production line: the token factory for frontier AI. If you like working on the hardest and most consequential problems, we want you at OLIX. We are hiring across London, Bristol, Austin, Toronto and San Francisco. Check out our careers page at olix.com/careers.
Board Observer
Jun 2023
The fusion of human creativity and AI precision is where magic truly happens. We question: How can AI revolutionize the way software projects are managed? How do we simplify the clutter of multi-platform collaboration? How do we make decision-making faster and more efficient? Stepsize are the creators of CollabGPT. CollabGPT keeps track of everything happening in Slack, Jira and GitHub to provide rich summaries, and suggestions on what to do next. CollabGPT uses historical and recent context from all of your platforms so you can make better decisions, faster, and get instant answers to pressing questions..
Board Member
Jul 2022
We make the building blocks of digital twins.
Investor & advisor
Aug 2021
inSided by Gainsight is now Gainsight CC! Gainsight Digital Hub is a powerful centralized destination that brings your customers, resources, and products together. The all-in-one hub empowers you to scale how you engage, retain, and delight your customers by unifying your customer resources, leveraging dynamic search and AI capabilities, building an influential user community, and providing a single success destination for your users. For a zero-obligation demo visit us: https://www.gainsight.com/digital-hub/.
Angel Investor
May 2021
Ctrl is committed to driving business growth by enhancing sales process adoption & efficiency. Positioned atop your existing CRM, our platform leverages advanced AI, from scoring your qualification criteria to automatically tracking whether key activities are met in each deal. This comprehensive approach ensures consistent deal execution and thorough inspection, boosting quota attainment and improving rep performance. Ctrl empowers your team to work effectively and improve key KPIs.
Angel Investor
Mar 2021
Cast.app — #1 automation platform to drive growth, revenue, and referrals from existing customers Learn more at: https://cast.app/product. Cast.app is backed by Array Ventures, Soma Capital, New York Venture Partners, Leonis Capital, Techstars (2020) and angels from Gainsight, S&P Global, a16z, Github, Microsoft, Salesforce, Autodesk, S&P Global, ProductBoard, Insided.com, Bill.com, and Revenue.io.
Angel Investor
Nov 2020
Hook is building a new world for Customer Success, powered by AI. We maximize revenue, without having to add additional headcount in 3 core ways: More impact, same CS team: Our agents spot risk, recommend next steps and handle the busy work so your customer success team can spend more time doing what they do best – making your customers successful. Stop churn before it starts: Echo, our leading AI agent, spots risk up to 6 months before renewal by listening to what customers say, tracking how they use your product, and recognizing patterns that matter. It then tells you exactly what to do next for each specific customer, with proven plays based on your data, providing 90%+ accuracy in risk detection, more time to act, and a higher impact on NRR. Scale CS, with a personal touch: Our agents not only surface insights, but can automatically execute the right plays, letting you run an entire CS segment through Hook while keeping every customer interaction personal. The end of CS platforms. The rise of AI agents.
Investor, Venture & Limited Partner
Jun 2019
We back ambitious founders building the future of enterprise technology. From inception through every flavour of pre-seed and seed, we provide the right resources at the right time, supporting founders as they scale globally. We’re people helping people dream, deliver, and win. The definition of enterprise software is evolving, and driving our investment strategy. Deep tech, fintech, healthcare, and hardware startups are shaping the next frontier of enterprise solutions—addressing immediate business needs while redefining industries. The globalization of early-stage funding is unlocking new opportunities, making geographic boundaries less relevant. We’ve embraced a borderless investment mindset, actively supporting founders across the UK, EU, U.S., and Israel. By fostering a more interconnected startup ecosystem, we help bold entrepreneurs build category-defining companies with global impact.
Experience · 17 entries
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2026
Investor
Jan 2026
The latest generation of AI models achieves breakthrough performance by spending vastly more tokens to solve complex problems. Demand is now compounding faster than the infrastructure beneath it can scale. The constraint sits in how tokens are made. Producing a token is not one operation but many, each placing different demands on hardware, yet every AI system in production runs them all on the same general purpose chip. Moving work between chips has always cost too much energy and time for anything else to be viable. That compromise is why the current approach cannot deliver high throughput and high interactivity at low cost, however large the single chip grows, and and why tokens remain scarce and expensive. Continuing AIs advance, and making it available to everyone, requires the datacentre to be rebuilt the way every great factory has been built: as a production line, with specialised machines and fast, cheap movement between them. OLIX is building that production line: the token factory for frontier AI. If you like working on the hardest and most consequential problems, we want you at OLIX. We are hiring across London, Bristol, Austin, Toronto and San Francisco. Check out our careers page at olix.com/careers.
2023
Limited Partner
Nov 2023
Atomico is the founder-built European venture capital firm. We partner with the most ambitious entrepreneurs using technology to rewire the world, better. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström launched Atomico in 2006 with the belief that entrepreneurs are the ultimate gamechangers for positive transformation across the most critical aspects of our society and economy. Starting in Europe, the firm’s mission is to further their global progress, with a platform offering unmatched support from the early stage to scale. 130 of Europe’s most ambitious founders have partnered with Atomico, including Aiven, Bird, DeepL, Hinge Health, Jobandtalent, Klarna, Lilium, Pipedrive, Stripe, Supercell and Wellhub. Atomicos team of investors and operational leaders are drawn from some of the most successful technology companies in the world, including Skype, Google, Twitter and Wise.
Board Observer
Jun 2023
The fusion of human creativity and AI precision is where magic truly happens. We question: How can AI revolutionize the way software projects are managed? How do we simplify the clutter of multi-platform collaboration? How do we make decision-making faster and more efficient? Stepsize are the creators of CollabGPT. CollabGPT keeps track of everything happening in Slack, Jira and GitHub to provide rich summaries, and suggestions on what to do next. CollabGPT uses historical and recent context from all of your platforms so you can make better decisions, faster, and get instant answers to pressing questions..
2022
Board Member
Jul 2022
We make the building blocks of digital twins.
2021
Executive-in-Residence & Program Partner
Nov 2021
Our mission is to help more people start better startups. ODF is a program we created over four years ago to help those at the exploration stage of starting a company. So far, weve helped over 1000 companies get started and raise over $2 billion. Starting a company is really exciting, but there are so many things you need to figure out in order to actually build one. - "Who might I start my company with?" - “What might we build?” - “Who might our initial customers be?” - “Should we raise funding soon, or should we try to bootstrap in the beginning?" These and many more questions are what we refer to as the "missing pieces"—the things you need to figure out to know if starting a company is right for you and what company you should ultimately build. With ODF, we bring together 80 to 100 people who are at the very same stage as you. Theyre all exceptionally talented, and theyre all trying to figure it out together.
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