Creandum

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  

❗Applications close on Friday June 21st for our next batch of visiting analysts, starting in Jan 2025 in London, Stockholm and Berlin. As an integral part of our team, you will work on potential investment opportunities with deal teams across our hubs, and work closely with companies in the Creandum funds' portfolio, all while in an environment that values creativity, flat hierarchy and open communication. If this is an exciting prospect, we would love to love to receive your application (linked in the comments section below). Shout out to some of our recent visiting analysts: Pilar Freire, Felix Guettner, Alessandro De Benedetti, Maximilian Rongen, Julius Ahr, Kay Hasegawa Get in touch with Jakob Stein should you have any questions.

The next generational AI B2B software companies will be horizontal. Beata Klein takes a deep dive into AI in B2B SaaS with Andreas Munk Holm on the EUVC podcast. They discuss: 👉Will incumbents own all the value at this layer? 👉Opportunities for AI in legacy industries with poor software experiences 👉What to look for in the next generational horizontal players 👉What we can learn from previous platform shifts 👉Life lessons from the past 5 years in VC https://lnkd.in/ed3xk3v3 You can also read about this topic in Beata and Richard Keuntje’s article on the power of AI in B2B SaaS (linked in comments below).

Team update! We are really excited to welcome Nick Wilkins to the team as our new Head of Marketing 💥 Nick began his career at O2 (Telefónica UK) where he led comms for the launch of the iPhone in 2007. He then spent nearly nine years at Airbnb, scaling from the early days to leading their global comms team through to IPO in December 2020. Most recently, Nick has been advising founders on storytelling and comms strategies. At Creandum, Nick will be responsible for maintaining and taking our brand to a new level and working closely with our founders in helping them establish their narratives. Johan Brenner sat down with Nick to discuss his career to date and what he will be getting involved in at Creandum. Welcome, Nick - we are so happy to have you as part of the team. https://lnkd.in/eChBPZKh Cc. Peter Specht Hanel Baveja Nick Lawitschka Richard Keuntje Michelle C. Felicitas Hagen Simon Schmincke Staffan Helgesson Sabina Wizander Carl Fritjofsson Fredrik Cassel  

Welcome, Visibly to the #Creandumfamily 💚 Founded by Kane St Quintin, Visibly is rebuilding regulated training for the infrastructure sector from the ground up. Its technology broadens the range of regulated certifications available to blue-collar workforces, so they can overcome the labour shortages that limit action on the climate crisis and national infrastructure improvements. Hanel Baveja commented, “Visibly's unparalleled focus on user experience in a legacy-dominated market and first-hand experience with these problems convinced us that this was the team to back.” We are excited to join this journey alongside existing investors Seedcamp, Brighteye Ventures, TriplePoint Capital and notable angels. Learn more about how Hanel first met Kane - a chance encounter on a bus in France... https://lnkd.in/edjBd3yk Cc. Hanel Baveja

Introducing the latest member of the #Creandumfamily, plancraft 💚 Founded by Julian Wiedenhaus, Richard Keil, and Alexander Noll, plancraft is a platform for the craft industries, helping these professions address some of the challenges they face - from labor shortages to increased admin. The result: craft professionals cut the time they spend on administrative tasks and spend more time with customers. Staffan Helgesson commented, “With a well-thought-out product and a dynamic team, plancraft has everything it needs to drive the digitalization of the craft industry throughout Europe.” We are excited to join this journey alongside existing investors HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds, xdeck, BitStone Capital and Realyze Ventures. Learn more about why we are excited to back plancraft in our latest piece - press linked in the comments section below. https://lnkd.in/e-89aHn9 Cc. Jakob Stein, Simon Schmincke

👀 BTS at CNBC where Staffan Helgesson joined Stephen Sedgwick and Karen Tso on Squawk Box, Europe's flagship markets show. Here Staffan tells the inside story of Creandum VII. (Sound on 🔈) Read more in our article 👉 https://lnkd.in/ey7JE6kN

We will be at SaaStr Europa next week! 🇬🇧 Join Hanel Baveja at 10:30AM on Wednesday 5th June in a session on how best to optimise your fundraising process. If you are a founder attending the conference, this is definitely one for you - and do get in touch in all the usual ways should you want to schedule a meeting. Cc. Peter Specht, Nick Lawitschka, Richard Keuntje, Jason M. Lemkin

This week we were in Estonia 🇪🇪 Firstly at EBAN - European Business Angel Network where Staffan Helgesson and Kaari Kink (Superangel) shared their insights on mastering exits in venture capital. Staffan then opened Latitude59 with Sten Tamkivi from Plural, brilliantly moderated by Cathy White (CEW Communications). They explored differences between the European and US ecosystems and a deep dive on Estonia and Sweden's role within European technology. We wrapped up our visit co-hosting an event with Superangel and Inventure. Thanks all for coming and see you again next year 🌟 Ellen Lee, Eliza Dabney, Liisi Org, Kai Isand

H Company represents the next frontier of generative AI and we are proud and excited to be participating in their $220m seed round. Led by Charles Kantor, Karl Tuyls, Laurent Siffre, Daan Wiestra & Julien Perolat, H Company brings together some of the world’s most prominent AI visionaries, innovators and builders to develop a new generation of multi-modal-to-action models. Carl Fritjofsson commented, “H Company has the potential to be one of the most important companies of our time. Their team is the world’s AI elite and we can’t wait to see what they accomplish.” Welcome H Company to the #Creandumfamily 💚 We are excited to join this journey alongside Accel, UiPath, Eric Schmidt, Amazon, FirstMark, Elaia, Eurazeo, Yuri Milner, Motier Ventures, Bpifrance, Visionaries Club & AGLAÉ VENTURES 💥 Learn more about why we are excited to back H Company in our latest piece. Cc. Charles A. Kantor, Laurent Sifre, Karl Tuyls, Julien Perolat https://lnkd.in/eYCPjrt2