Creandum
Stockholm, Sweden · Venture CapitalCreandum is a Nordic venture capital firm known for early bets in category-defining European tech companies. It led Better Stack's Series A financing in January 2024 and also has Bolt in its portfolio.
Better Stack is a Prague-founded observability platform built by engineers for engineers, led by Juraj Masar (CEO) and Veronika Kolejak (COO). The company is known for combining speed, lower cost, and strong product design in a unified stack that covers uptime monitoring, log management, incident response, and status pages.
Its technical positioning emphasizes standard SQL over proprietary query languages and high-performance analytics on ClickHouse-based infrastructure. Better Stack's January 2024 Series A and extension brought total funding to about $28.6M, with Creandum, KAYA Ventures, and Susa Ventures among key investors plus notable angels from Box, Flexport, Neo4j, Yelp, Codecademy, and UiPath. Publicly shared company metrics reported more than 200,000 developers and 4,000+ customers, and by 2026 Better Stack is widely viewed as one of the strongest Czech global DevTools contenders.
Prague, Czech Republic
Startup
Growth
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Creandum is a Nordic venture capital firm known for early bets in category-defining European tech companies. It led Better Stack's Series A financing in January 2024 and also has Bolt in its portfolio.
KAYA Ventures is a Prague-based early-stage VC backing CEE founders building global software companies. The firm invested in Better Stack from its early stages and has been an active supporter of Czech technical founders expanding into US and global markets.
Launched 2017. Corporate venture program connecting startups with the Jose de Mello Group in healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Support: pilot agreements, corporate guidance, and potential customer contracts. Scope: National.
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