Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Staffan Helgesson and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with additional offices in Berlin, London, and San Francisco. The firm backs founders building global, category-defining technology companies from seed to IPO and beyond, with its tagline "we back the companies of tomorrow before it's obvious." Creandum invests across software and SaaS, artificial intelligence, fintech, consumer, marketplaces, developer tools, and infrastructure, primarily across Europe with a growing US presence. Typical investment checks range from roughly $200K to $10M, and the firm manages around $2B in assets, having closed a €500M fund to back European early-stage startups. Its portfolio of 150+ companies includes some of Europe's most successful tech businesses such as Spotify, Klarna, Depop, Trade Republic, Pleo, Neo4j, iZettle, Bolt, Kry/Livi, Lovable, and Navan. This profile tracks Creandum's identity and its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.
Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.
Creandum has 153 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 61 (40%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 92 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are elastic, Klarna, Junction, Better Stack, Neo4J.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar4Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 120 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
Creandum, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the
“Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own
coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
22%
15%
+7
MCP server (first-party)
21%
12%
+9
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
14%
11%
+3
Security
96%
98%
-2
Arazzo workflows
4%
2%
+2
Governance rules
8%
13%
-5
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
This roster declares 153 members; 144
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 120 carry a score
(83%). The figures above describe the scored members only. Coverage caveat. 106 of 120 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of
3 October 2026, across 28834
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
aid: creandum
name: Creandum
description: >-
Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in
2003 by Staffan Helgesson and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with
additional offices in Berlin, London, and San Francisco. The firm backs
founders building global, category-defining technology companies from seed to
IPO and beyond, with its tagline "we back the companies of tomorrow before
it's obvious." Creandum invests across software and SaaS, artificial
intelligence, fintech, consumer, marketplaces, developer tools, and
infrastructure, primarily across Europe with a growing US presence. Typical
investment checks range from roughly $200K to $10M, and the firm manages
around $2B in assets, having closed a €500M fund to back European early-stage
startups. Its portfolio of 150+ companies includes some of Europe's most
successful tech businesses such as Spotify, Klarna, Depop, Trade Republic,
Pleo, Neo4j, iZettle, Bolt, Kry/Livi, Lovable, and Navan. This profile tracks
Creandum's identity and its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/creandum.png
tags:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Early Stage
- Artificial Intelligence
- Fintech
- Developer Tools
- Enterprise
- Europe
- Sweden
- Global
url: >-
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/creandum/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
url: https://creandum.com/
- type: Portfolio
url: https://creandum.com/commitments/
- type: Portfolio
url: portfolio/creandum-portfolio.yml
- type: Team
url: https://creandum.com/team/
- type: Team
url: team/creandum-team.yml
- type: Blog
url: https://creandum.com/stories/
- type: News
url: https://creandum.com/stories/
- type: Jobs
url: https://careers.creandum.com/jobs
- type: Contact
url: https://creandum.com/contact/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/creandum/
- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/creandum
- type: Crunchbase
url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/creandum
- type: Features
data:
- "Stage: Seed to IPO (early-stage focus)"
- "Typical check: ~$200K-$10M"
- "Sectors: software & SaaS, AI, fintech, consumer, marketplaces, developer tools, infrastructure"
- "Geography: Europe (primary) and United States"
- "AUM: ~$2B (as of Dec 2023, third-party reported)"
- "Recent fund: EUR 500M for European early-stage startups"
- "Founded: 2003"
- "Founder: Staffan Helgesson"
- "HQ: Stockholm, Sweden"
- "Offices: Stockholm, Berlin, London, San Francisco"
- "Portfolio: 150+ companies (Spotify, Klarna, Depop, Trade Republic, Pleo, Neo4j, iZettle)"
sources:
- https://creandum.com/
- https://creandum.com/commitments/
- https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/creandum-closes-a-500-m-fund
updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
url: http://apisjson.org
- FN: Creandum
url: https://creandum.com/
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