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Creandum

www.creandum.com ↗ ·Stockholm ·Early stage ·Actively investing

Creandum is a Stockholm-based venture capital firm founded in 2003 that invests in European technology companies at seed and Series A, with offices in Stockholm, London, Berlin and San Francisco. It backs consumer, fintech, software, health and deep-tech founders, typically leading early rounds and following on through later stages. Its seventh fund, Creandum VII, closed in 2024 at €500M. Its portfolio has included Spotify, iZettle, Klarna, Trade Republic, Depop, Kry, Lovable and Small Giant Games.

Portfolio

Team

AUM

n/a

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SectorsConsumer, Fintech, Software, Health, Deep tech, AI VC MapSeries A

Profile updated 23 Sep 2026

Team

Partners 11 Investment Team 8 Others 21

Carl Fritjofsson

General Partner

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Daniel Blomquist

Fund Partner

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Fredrik Cassel

General Partner

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Hanel Baveja

Partner

Jakob Stein

Partner

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Johan Brenner

General Partner

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Nelson Casata

Vice President

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Peter Specht

General Partner

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Peter Stilwell

Operating Partner

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Simon Schmincke

General Partner

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Staffan Helgesson

Founding General Partner

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Alexandra Österman

Executive Assistant

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Beatrice Rellman Skantze

General Counsel

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Daniel Ovenden

Talent Team

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Emelie Odelfalk

Executive Assistant

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Felix Haas

Designer in Residence

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George Goldhagen

Marketing Lead

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Ginger Hilb

Head of Offices

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Gustav Lindqvist

Data Science Specialist

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Isabelle Sandblom

Executive Assistant

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John Nilsson

Financial Controller

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Josefin Bladh

Senior Fund Controller

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Katarina Lilljequist Briem

Executive Assistant

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Lars Nordwall

Advisor

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Lisa Selke

Head of Executive Support

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Lovisa Wahlberg

Head of Events

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Maria Raga

Advisor

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Michelle Coventry

VP Talent

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Naomi Kellner-Read

Office Manager

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Niclas Engström

Finance Director

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Oscar Ponce

Legal Counsel

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Peter Ramsey

Entrepreneur in Residence

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Portfolio companies 5

Abacum

www.abacum.ai

Company Series B New York

Causa Prima

causaprima.ai

Company Pre-seed Madrid

Embat

www.embat.io

Company Series B Madrid

Factorial

factorialhr.com

Company Series C Barcelona

Maisa

maisa.ai

Company Seed Valencia

Funding rounds 10

Causa Prima · Pre-seed · $10M

Founded by Taulia/Finoa alumni (Madrid & Munich), Causa Prima exited stealth with a $10M Creandum-led pre-seed — claimed as the largest ever…

2026-06-16

Embat · Series B · €30M

Madrid-based treasury management fintech Embat raised a €30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation, with Creandum, Samaipata, 4Founders C…

2026-05-12

Maisa AI · Seed · $25M

Maisa, an agentic-AI startup with dual headquarters in Valencia and San Francisco, raised $25M (~€21.4M) in what was reported as the largest…

2025-08-27

Abacum · Series B · $60M

Abacum, the business planning and FP&A platform founded by Julio Martínez and Jorge Lluch, raised a $60M (about €52.5M) Series B led by Scal…

2025-06-11

Embat · Series A · $16M

Madrid fintech Embat, which automates real-time corporate treasury and accounting for around 150 European corporates including Cabify, Walla…

2024-02-27

Factorial · Series C · $120M

Barcelona HR software company Factorial raised $120M in an all-equity Series C led by Atomico at a valuation of about $1B, becoming a unicor…

2022-10-11

Abacum · Series A · $25M

Abacum, which builds financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software for finance teams, raised a $25M Series A (about €22M) led by Atomico, …

2021-11-30

Factorial · Series B · $80M

Barcelona HR-software company Factorial raised an $80M (about €67M) Series B led by Tiger Global, at a post-money valuation of about $530M. …

2021-09-06

Abacum · Seed · $7M

Barcelona-based Abacum, a Y Combinator-backed financial planning and collaboration platform for finance teams, raised a $7M (about €5.9M) se…

2021-04-08

Factorial · Series A · €15M

Factorial, which makes an HR management and automation platform for SMEs, raised a €15M (about $16M) Series A led by CRV. Creandum, Point Ni…

2020-04-28

News & media 9

Published	Article
2026-07-01	EquiLibre secures Series A at €438 million valutation to scale AI trading agents handling billions daily ↗ EU-Startups
2026-05-06	Promoting Jakob Stein to Partner ↗ Creandum
2026-02-15	Founder Compensation 4.0 ↗ Creandum
2025-08-27	Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI's 95% failure rate ↗ TechCrunch
2025-07-17	Lovable becomes Europe's latest unicorn, following $200M funding round ↗ Tech.eu
2025-02-25	Sweden's Lovable, an app-building AI platform, rakes in $16M after spectacular growth ↗ TechCrunch
2025-01-14	Founder compensation report for European startups 2025 ↗ Henrik Torstensson's Weblog
2024-06-03	Spotify, Klarna-backer Creandum closes €500M fund to back up to 40 early-stage startups ↗ Tech Funding News
2024-02-27	Spain's Embat, which has raised $16M, plans to compete with Trovata in real-time accounting ↗ TechCrunch