# Fredrik Cassel

> Fredrik Cassel is a Series A investor at Creandum (Stockholm) backing Software and Mobile Apps. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum)
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/fredrik-cassel/6/aaa/19a
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/_fredrik

Fredrik Cassel is a Series A investor at Creandum in Stockholm focused on Software and Mobile Apps. Fredrik Cassel has led the work with several industry-defining companies. He led the first round of funding in among others Spotify, KRY, Xeneta, Soundtrack Your Brand, Cint and Videoplaza. He oversees Creandum's work with several other landmark consumer-facing services such as depop, Kahoot! and Virta Health.Before Fredrik joined Creandum,in the internet middle ages, he ran the largest online search service in the Nordics at Scandinavia Online. Earlier he was part of the team launching 20 Minuten – a free daily newspaper – in Cologne, Germany.Fredrik has lived and worked in Germany, France, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. He is a Kauffman Fellow and has got a degree in engineering physics studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and at the EPFL in Lausanne.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 16% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 9% |
| Apps | 2 | 6% |
| SaaS | 2 | 6% |
| Mobile | 2 | 6% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 25% |
| Seed | 7 | 22% |
| Series B | 7 | 22% |
| Series C | 3 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sweden | 5 | 16% |
| United States | 3 | 9% |
| Norway | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lovable | Lovable builds software that builds software. Lovable vision is to unlock human creativity by enabling anyone to create software. | $200M | Series A | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Superscale AI | Superscale AI is a marketing services company that helps the users to create content in social media platform. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Lovable | Lovable builds software that builds software. Lovable vision is to unlock human creativity by enabling anyone to create software. | $15M | Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Lindus | Lindus Health's mission is to accelerate research for the next generation of health companies. | $55M | Series B | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Lindus | Lindus Health's mission is to accelerate research for the next generation of health companies. | $18M | Series A | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| Kive | Kive is a company that enables creatives to collect visual assets in a library that self-organizes through machine learning. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. | $7M | Seed | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Craft | Craft Docs offers a document creation platform that allows users to easily create and share documents. Craft Docs allows users to create customized long emails, PDFs, Google Docs, or Word documents for all screen sizes. Also, it allows users to export and share documents with one tap via email, Slack, or a browser link.The company was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. | $12.2M | Series B | Sep 05, 2022 |  |
| Leap | Leap is a social learning community that connects writers, storytellers, and creatives via conversations and classes. | $3.1M | Seed | Jul 15, 2021 |  |
| Xeneta | Xeneta provides container freight pricing transparency with one platform in real-time and on demand. Benchmark the ocean container freight rates with intelligent pricing data. Xeneta's turnkey software platform holds 45+MN spot and long-term contracted rates for 160+K trade lanes. Stay on top of the shipping price market movements and makesure rates are competitive.Xeneta was launched in 2012 and is based in Oslo, Norway. | $28.5M | Series C | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| Vivino | Vivino empowers people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino’s unique wine shopping experience uses community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations, make wine discovery, and purchase fun, accessible, andeffortless for wine drinkers of every level of expertise. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $155M | Series D | Feb 03, 2021 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Northzone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northzone-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [GP Bullhound](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gp-bullhound) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Visionaries Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/visionaries-club) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alden](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alden) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Creandum

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

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.

5 contacts available at Creandum.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Maria Frances | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-raga |
| Daniel Blomquist | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-blomquist |
| Fredrik Cassel | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fredrik-cassel |
| Gemma Bloemen | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gemma-bloemen |
| Johan Brenner | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johan-brenner |

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## FAQ

### What does Fredrik Cassel invest in?

Fredrik Cassel invests primarily in Software, Mobile Apps and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Fredrik Cassel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Fredrik Cassel closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 32 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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