Simon Schmincke

terralayr announced another $223m (€192m) investment today. One of the largest battery storage financings in Europe in the past years. This isn’t about the size of the round. It’s about the cons...

I wrote 1,3m lines of code last year. And that is insane! The year-in-review, wrapped-style messages everyone shared over the holidays keep getting better and better. Spotify generously reduced m...

Cast AI just crossed a $1B valuation. Creandum’s first newly minted BUSD company of 2026. When we first met the team at Series A, the idea was simple: use AI agents to optimize Kubernetes. What’s ...

Big step forward for Fuse Energy. Closing the week of with another round in the Creandum portfolio. $70m on a $5b valuation. $70m Series B, led by Lowercarbon Capital and Balderton, backing a cle...

Today we’re announcing Lovable’s $330m Series B. This is the second upround since Creandum invested less than 12 months ago. That alone is remarkable. But it’s not the point. The point is that th...

Today Black Forest Labs announced their $300m Series B. What's even more amazing is that a this small team from the South of Germany keeps pushing the boundaries in Image Generation Models globally...

Wrapping up four weeks in the U.S., split between Texas and the West Coast, here’s what stood out this time around: You don’t need to move to the U.S. to build a great company. You don’t need to j...

Grab are investing up to $410M in Vay's driverless rental car technology. Grab - Southeast Asia's leading ride hailing super-app - will make a $410M strategic investment in Vay, bringing together ...

Three days in Texas (Austin and Houston) come to an end, and it’s clearer than ever that the bridge between Europe and the U.S. is built on people. On meeting old friends (LPs, founders) and new on...

What a journey this has been. Seeing Navan ring the bell on Nasdaq today at over $6B is nothing short of incredible. Huge congratulations to Michael Riegel, Jannik Wässa, and the entire Navan team...

Excited to celebrate Lovable at Slush ;)

Traveling the world as a venture capitalist has been a dream job. After 15 years in the industry, I decided it’s time for something new… Way before I got into VC, I was a professional photographe...

I’m gearing up for the busiest Q4 in Venture Capital I can remember - the quality of founders and companies is crazy right now. And I am loving it! I want to meet you all - particularly if you’re ...

Today, we are announcing our investment in Jack & Jill. We are excited to lead their $20m seed round and see Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan revolutionize recruiting, once again! Welcome to the ...

It is this time of the year again: Oktoberfest is hitting hard and that means Bits & Pretzels is in full swing next week. Like in the past 6 years, I have the honor to host this years Investor pan...

Creandum’s first office outside Sweden was in San Francisco. We’ve been active in the US for 15 years now, ever since Johan first moved over. Since then we’ve backed Neo4j, Cornershop, Pipe, and V...

Tide is now officially a unicorn. With a dominating market share in the UK of 14% and a rapidly growing business in India, Germany and France this was only a matter of time. Congrats to the team. ...

$80m: Big moment for SEON: they've just raised their Series C, led by Sixth Street with continued support from IVP, us here at Creandum, Firebolt Ventures and new investor Hearst Ventures. Fraud i...

Congrats to Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Klarna on today’s IPO. 🇸🇪 From paper invoices in Sweden to 100M+ users and 790k+ merchants worldwide, it’s been a 20-year journey. Back in 2006, Klarna sol...

Looking forward to being back in Istanbul in October. Calling for all Fintechs and AI startups in Turkey/MENA to reach out - eager to learn more and get to know you. Thanks team Istanbul Slush'D...