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Credo Ventures
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Credo Ventures is the fund of choice for CEE founders around the world building generational companies. Having believed in the region's talent since 2009, they write the first check — before product, before revenue, often before a deck. The firm backs exceptional people rather than following a rigid sector thesis, leading Pre-Seed rounds with $1M–$5M checks for founders from Central and Eastern Europe and the CEE global diaspora. Credo works hands-on with no-BS technical founders who have bold vision, international ambition, and the competence to execute. The firm is sector-agnostic but gravitates toward AI, SaaS, fintech, healthtech, and developer tools. Across five funds and 17 years, it has backed 100+ companies — including two CEE decacorns, UiPath and ElevenLabs — and targets around 30 companies per fund at a pace of 7–8 new investments per year.
Notable quotes
“Deals like that are incredibly rare. Over the 15 years we've been doing Credo, we've had only two that stand out like this: UiPath and ElevenLabs.”
“At Credo Ventures we seek to work with smart and ambitious founders from the CEE region. We saw the hunger and spark in Mati's and Piotr's eyes at our very first meeting. A few months later they're becoming an OpenAI-grade speech technology research hub overcoming the biggest challenges in artificial audio.”
“I cannot think of easy fixes or shortcuts. I don't believe in shortcuts much. I think fast growth comes when the right team cracks a solution to a big problem and they create a good product. That's when fast growth can come.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs | Pre-seed | $2m | 2023-01-23 |
| UiPath | Pre-seed | — | — |
| Productboard | Seed | — | — |
| Pricefx | Seed | — | — |
| Resistant AI | Seed | $3m | 2020-05-01 |
| Docplanner | Seed | — | — |
| Wabi | Pre-seed | — | — |
| Replika AI | Seed | — | — |
| Mews | Seed | — | — |
| Kontakt.io | Seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Index Ventures | 2 |
| Concept Ventures | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| GV | 1 |
| Notion Capital | 1 |
| Market One Capital | 1 |
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