Bjarke Staun-Olsen
Principal @ Creandum
Stockholm, Sweden
Bjarke Staun-Olsen is a pre-seed investor at Creandum in Stockholm focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Bjarke Klinge Staun is a Principal at Creandum, a leading European early stage venture capital firm with a portfolio that includes Spotify, iZettle and Vivino.After starting his career at Goldman Sachs, Bjarke co-founded Alipes in 2008. Alipes is a technology company that never left stealth, as it became profitable very fast, has grownorganically and has a very specialized product. The company uses machine learning and natural language processing to automatically read financial news and generate insights about the stock market. The company has about 20 employees in Copenhagen, most of them machine learning, physics and computer science PhDs.After running Alipes for 6 years, Bjarke left active management to his two co-founders in 2014, and is now a proud board member and shareholder. He then ran Vaniday in Berlin, a Rocket Internet funded global beauty and wellness marketplace, before joining Creandum.At Creandum, Bjarke spends a lot of time on the machine learning and AI space, as well as on Fintech.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Bjarke Staun-Olsen invests in
Stages Bjarke Staun-Olsen invests in
Countries Bjarke Staun-Olsen invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.6M–$8M
- Angel
- $77k–$521k
- Pre-Seed
- $696k–$7.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (33%)
- Software 4 (27%)
- FinTech 3 (20%)
- Developer APIs 2 (13%)
- Developer Tools 2 (13%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 8 (53%)
- Seed 5 (33%)
- Angel 2 (13%)
Country
- Denmark 7 (47%)
- Sweden 2 (13%)
- United Kingdom 2 (13%)
- Finland 1 (7%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| The aim of Opally is to assist hospitality professionals in spending more time crafting exceptional guest experiences and less time on emails. | $77K / Angel / Mar 27, 2026 | ||
| Sumary is a finance-tech company that offers an AI-powered reporting, budgeting & forecasting for e-conomic. | $4.2M / Pre-Seed / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Spiich is an AI sales assistant that eliminates administrative work for revenue teams. The platform handles CRM updates, meeting preparation, and follow-ups through conversational commands - letting sales professionals focus on building relationships and closing deals, not the CRM admin they despise. | $695.5K / Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Credibur is a fintech startup that offers software and services for managing the full credit lifecycle, as well as modular API-and-AI-first infrastructure. | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / Jul 23, 2025 | ||
| Kiku using AI for scheduling, screening, and assessing applicants can help organizations manage large volumes of candidates efficiently. | $520.6K / Angel / Dec 17, 2024 | ||
| Lovable builds software that builds software. Lovable vision is to unlock human creativity by enabling anyone to create software. | $7.5M / Pre-Seed / Oct 07, 2024 | ||
| Realm is a conversational search engine for the workplace. With Realm, employees accurately find anything their company has ever written down. Realm gives an organization perfect memory. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| Combine All Models for Faster, Cheaper, and Better Responses Than Any Single Model | $8M / Seed / May 22, 2024 | ||
| Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR. | $2.6M / Seed / Feb 07, 2024 | ||
| Heyhack is an automated penetration testing platform that scans web apps and APIs for web vulnerabilities and helps in fixing them. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Jun 24, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Creandum
Creandum is a European early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on investing in innovative technology companies. The firm supports founders by providing not only capital but also operational expertise and a robust network built over years in the industry.
Creandum Contacts
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Daniel Blomquist
Fund Partner
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Maria Frances
Venture Partner
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Fredrik Cassel
General Partner
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Gemma Bloemen
Principal
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Johan Brenner
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Bjarke Staun-Olsen invest in?
Bjarke Staun-Olsen invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Denmark. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bjarke Staun-Olsen invest in?
Bjarke Staun-Olsen typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$8M at Seed, $77k–$521k at Angel and $696k–$7.5M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bjarke Staun-Olsen's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bjarke Staun-Olsen took part in.
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When did Bjarke Staun-Olsen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bjarke Staun-Olsen closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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