# Creades AB

> Creades AB is a VC fund in Stockholm backing Software and E-Commerce. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/creades-ab/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/creadesab
- Website: http://www.creades.se/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creadesab

Creades AB is a VC fund in Stockholm focused on Software and E-Commerce. Creades is an investment company investing in businesses that have the potential for revaluation and value creation. Creade's business concept is to provide a good risk-adjusted return to its shareholders by investing in businesses where Creades can act as an engaged owner, primarily in small and medium-listed and unlisted Swedish companies.The firm is a spin-off from Investment AB Öresund.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.9M–$5.9M |
| Series A | $2.1M–$91M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 12% |
| Apps | 3 | 9% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |
| Retail | 3 | 9% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 12% |
| Series A | 4 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 12% |
| Private Equity | 4 | 12% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 18 | 55% |
| United States | 2 | 6% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 3% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Erik Törnberg | Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-t%C3%B6rnberg |
| John Hedberg | CEO | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-hedberg-c242 |
| Christina Hilmersson | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-hilmersson |
| Sven Hagströmer | Founder & Owner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sven-hagstrmer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nordic Knots | Nordic Knots is an e-commerce store that offers home decor products such as rugs, flatweave, plush, shaggy, jute, and runners. | $100M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Aira | Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company. | $158.7M | Series B | Jan 15, 2024 |  |
| Aira | Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company. | $90.7M | Series A | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Fast Travel Games | Fast Travel Games is a new game development studio located in Stockholm, Sweden, building virtual reality games. Founded by game development veterans with years behind us at studios like EA DICE, Rovio and Avalanche, we want to change the way you play. We're gamers by heart, and believe VR is the ultimate platform for deep, engrossing gameuniverses.Our mission is to build games where players are free to explore their surroundings, where they will experience rich narratives and interact with others in new and interesting ways. | $3.9M |  | Oct 10, 2023 |  |
| Instabee | Instabee is an online and mail-order retail company that serves merchants, including ASOS, Zalando, Inditex, and H&M. Instabee is a holding company formed with the merger of Budbee and Instabox. | $46.1M | Convertible Note | Jun 05, 2023 |  |
| Kreditz | Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries. | $11.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 03, 2023 |  |
| Findity | Findity is an expense management software designed for living. Manage all your expenses, milages and per diems in one place – fully compliant and automated. The app seamlessly works with your existing tools and cards, helping you take back time and do more with your day. Compatible Every business is built differently. From the accounting softwareand cards, to approval structures and supporting tools. That's why Findity is built around your business and not the other way around.Automated Say goodbye to scraps of paper, smudged receipts, and staplers. Findity puts your expense management on cruise control. Instant Findity instantly captures and distributes data, meaning lightning-fast payouts and full oversight of real-time transactions, putting an end to reimbursement delays.Compliant Out-of-the-box peace of mind, pre-built to conform with local regulations. Always up-to-date, always compliant.Control Stay in control. Findity allows for full traceability, business insights, and better understanding and optimisation of costs.White label partnership Our technology, your brand. We build your expense management solution. Add your company branding, and it's ready to go. | $10.1M | Private Equity | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Mentimeter | An audience engagement platform. Mentimeter make presentations, events and classrooms interactive and fun | $42M | Series C | Jun 23, 2022 |  |
| Instabox | Instabox Express is a shipping service available in selected online stores. It ship your express delivery package to our lockers in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.Instabox handles logistics for e-commerce retailers, offering same-day delivery through its network of last-mile smart delivery lockers. The service reaches about six million Swedes,delivering from the likes of H&M, Ikea, and Lloyds. In a press release, the company claims its growth has more than tripled each year over the last few years. | $190M | Series C | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| Stravito | Stravito is a knowledge management solution that democratizes access to market research and insights, making it fast and easy to use research to make better decisions.Teams such as consumer insights, use Stravito’s intuitive, highly automated cloud service to centralize internal and external data sources, organize research and data, and quicklygenerate the findings that organizations need to power growth.Stravito was founded in Sweden in 2017 by a team of entrepreneurs with decades of technology and research industry experience. Today it is represented in North America and Europe. | $14.7M | Series A | Sep 02, 2021 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Creades AB invest in?

Creades AB invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Creades AB's check size?

Creades AB typically joins rounds of $2.9M–$5.9M at Seed and $2.1M–$91M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Creades AB participates in.

### How do I contact Creades AB?

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### Who are the partners at Creades AB?

The team at Creades AB includes Erik Törnberg (Investment Director), John Hedberg (CEO) and Christina Hilmersson (CFO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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