We’re excited to announce the close of Creandum VII 🇪🇺 €500m fund - oversubscribed and raised in record time 🎓 Backed by 30 of the world’s top investors, including the largest university endowments and foundations 🔎 Focused on Seed and Series A investments in Europe 🤩 Backing Europe’s next generation of game-changing founders Here’s a little video we made to introduce the new fund... Johan Brenner, Staffan Helgesson, Carl Fritjofsson, Peter Specht, Simon Schmincke, Daniel Blomquist, Sabina Wizander, Hanel Baveja, Beata Klein, Fredrik Cassel
Creandum
Riskkapitalister
Stockholm, Stockholm 43 568 följare
We back the companies of tomorrow before it's obvious.
Om oss
Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm backing some of Europe’s most successful tech companies including Spotify, iZettle, Depop, Klarna, Bolt, KRY, Epidemic Sound and Small Giant Games. Creandum has hubs in Stockholm, Berlin, London, and San Francisco.
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🚀 Welcome doinstruct to the #Creandumfamily! 🚀 Founded by Charlotte Rothert, Mona Feder, Daniel Marinkovic and Thorsten Gross, doinstruct is a mobile-first onboarding and training platform built with the real needs of deskless workers front of mind. Our investment hypothesis: 👉 80% of the global workforce are frontline workers but current training options are not fit for purpose. The most common approach is to take the worker out of production, sit them in a classroom in front of a PC and view static content. Businesses are literally burning money with this approach. 👉 Frontline workers deserve a training product that has been built with their needs and behaviors front of mind. If their needs are met, shift leaders are happy. And if shift leaders are happy, business owners succeed. 👉 Simplicity rules when it comes to meeting the needs of frontline workers. No barriers, automated, personalized in their own language, engaging and easy. 👉 ‘Meh’ adoption rates won’t cut it when it comes to compliance training. It’s too important. You can’t have food processing workers not fully trained in food hygiene rules. 100% is the new 50%. 👉 Ease of implementation is also critical for managers who are not digital natives themselves and otherwise have to contend with many real world problems. No implementation means no adoption which means no compliance which means heavy fines or worse. 👉 Only a team with direct experience and knowledge of this world and who truly speaks the language of their customers will win. That’s why we’re so excited to back doinstruct in their €7.6m round, with participation from existing investors HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds and D11Z.Ventures GmbH & Co. KG and prominent business angels. Read more about the investment in Simon Schmincke's blog and in the press coverage. Links in the comments 👇 cc Jakob Stein Janick Wagner
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🍋 lemon.markets is crushing it 🍋 👉 In January, they were licensed to operate as an investment firm by BaFin. 👉In March, they launched their brokerage-as-a-service platform and have seen an influx of partners, including sustainable bank, Tomorrow and financial education app, beatvest. 👉Today, they’re announcing €12m in new funding in a round led by CommerzVentures which we’re delighted to join alongside Heliad AG, Lakestar, Lightspeed and System.One 🚀Congratulations to Max Linden and the team on the great momentum they have. Their combination of extensive securities expertise and deep technical knowledge uniquely positions them to win in this space. Links to press articles in the comments below. cc Simon Schmincke Jakob Stein Johan Brenner
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We 💚 soloGPs. They play an increasingly important role at pre-seed which is vitally important for the whole startup ecosystem. Beata Klein takes a deep dive into the rise of the soloGP and celebrates 10 emerging soloGPs in Europe: Carmen Alfonso Rico 🍫, Gloria Baeuerlein, Pietro Invernizzi, Finn Murphy, Annelie Ajami, Sam Cash, Felix Plapperer, Sarah Drinkwater, Anke Huiskes and Declan Kelly. Read her article here: https://lnkd.in/eyzKVpxD
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🚀 Prewave raises €63m Series B 🚀 Disruptions to supply chains are estimated to cost businesses 6-10% of their annual revenue. On top of this, they face a wave of new sustainability and supply chain regulations. Prewave is leveraging AI to address these challenges and build the world’s only supply chain superintelligence platform. They already have huge traction with 3x annual revenue growth in 2023 and customers including the likes of Lufthansa, Toyota Motor Corporation, Ferrari and many more. Prewave has the best product that we have seen in this space and we are excited to continue to support them on their journey alongside Hedosophia, Ventech, KOMPAS VC, Speedinvest and Working Capital Fund. Check out the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/dYF-3juH Cc Lisa Smith, Harald Nitschinger, Sabina Wizander, Iris Hendriks
Prewave Raises €63M Series B to Revolutionise Supply Chain Risk Management with AI-Driven Superintelligence Platform - Prewave
https://www.prewave.com
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Another new team addition! We are delighted to welcome Peter Stilwell to the team as Chief Operating Officer. Peter has most recently been COO of Coinbase UK as well as leading business operations and strategy at Coinbase Europe. Previously, Peter was a senior manager with Bain & Company in the Bay Area and before that an investment banker at HSBC. At Creandum, Peter will be responsible for running everything outside of the investment team - in finance, legal, marketing and platform. Peter will be a critical part of the firm's leadership team along with Daniel Blomquist, who will be transitioning from Operating Partner to Fund Partner, focusing specifically on the relationship with the funds' LPs, on overall fund management and investment strategy. Staffan Helgesson sat down with Peter to learn more about his career to date and what drew him to running the Operations team at Creandum. Check out our piece and let's all give Peter a warm welcome 💚 cc. Simon Schmincke Peter Specht Carl Fritjofsson Johan Brenner Sabina Wizander Fredrik Cassel https://lnkd.in/dqijEyJQ
Peter Stilwell joins Creandum
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Swan is launching in Italy 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 🇮🇹 Swan is the easiest way to embed banking services like accounts, cards, and payments to elevate any product and unlock new revenue streams. And it's now available for Italian customers. cc Nicolas Benady Alessandro Giovanelli Simon Schmincke
Puntiamo sull’Italia 🇮🇹 Swan’s embedded finance platform lands in Milan, unlocking a lucrative market for Italian businesses! 📰 Check it out in Il Sole 24 Ore. We believe in Italy’s gradual but steady tech growth as the next big European opportunity for embedded finance. Over 100 European companies have integrated banking services like accounts, cards, and payments through our Banking-as-a-Service platform, creating seamless customer experiences and new revenue streams. We are so excited to make embedded banking easy for Italian companies! Reach out to Alessandro Giovanelli to learn more. https://lnkd.in/egxnBfSq
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Tune in to the latest EU-Startups podcast to hear Sabina Wizander share her story and insights on navigating the startup and VC scene with Marcin Lewandowski. They discuss: - Her journey from McKinsey to VC to being a start up operator and then back to VC - The importance of seizing opportunities and being open to unexpected twists - The European tech ecosystem and challenges of fundraising - The vital importance of climate tech for the world And much more! Links in the comments below 👇 https://lnkd.in/eWtuH3Xw
EU-Startups Podcast | Episode 73: Sabina Wizander, Partner at Creandum | EU-Startups
https://www.eu-startups.com
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Fredrik spoke to Sam Shead (LinkedIn News Europe) as part of their #VCWednesdays feature. Check it out! ✨
🚨 Fredrik Cassel is a general partner at Creandum, which has just raised a new €500m (£422m) startup fund. He talks to Sam Shead for VC Wednesdays, a weekly series featuring a Q&A interview with a venture capitalist. 🖊️ What advantage do VCs with a scientific background have over those with a finance background? Formal education is a very small part of what creates advantage as an investor. For me, curiosity is the most important trait in a VC, and that can be found in many walks of life. When you add experience from operations and from working closely with founders across many successes and failures, you will have a recipe that compounds over time. That is if you manage to keep an open and humble approach. This is going to be a generalisation but I would say that those with an engineering background are more interested in how things are connected in the world, excluding money. And those with a finance background are more focused on how they are connected because of money. Both are important as an investor. For the most part, I have an easier time connecting closely and quickly with entrepreneurs focused on product or use-case first. 🖊️ How can VCs have impact when they’re on a startup board? Our job as investors is to help founders hire the best people, connect them to the most meaningful partners and focus on the things that will really drive value. This support can take many forms. Oftentimes, not least initially, it can be very tactical – late-night calls on simple matters like tactics to win a customer over or pricing structures. At other times it’s more pivotal, such as helping to secure a big hire, or setting the company up for – and ultimately successfully – closing large further financing. The best investors provide a mix of support across all levels and are there for founders when they really need it, but also know when to stay out. As companies mature, the board becomes a more important forum for the strategic topics mentioned. It is typically not loved by founders until they either find a way to make it work for them by honing their board management skills, or the value grows on them. This can be the case, for instance, where you’ve built your venture over many funding rounds and have an increasingly large and complex investor base. The board’s role as a designated subset of investors can be hugely valuable, giving founders time back and leverage. 🖊️ How much of an issue is the lack of growth-stage funding in Europe? Our experience is that the best companies have access to growth capital regardless of the point in the macro cycle and regardless of geography. If anything, there’s almost 10 times more growth funding available today in Europe than 10 years ago. I am convinced that the current and next cohort of growth-stage European companies will be more able than any time before to compete for the biggest and most ambitious growth investors on the planet. #VCWednesdays #vc #venturecapital #startups #TechonLinkedIn