Staffan Helgesson

Staffan Helgesson is a General Partner at Creandum, a European technology venture capital firm he founded in 2003, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He began his investment career by launching his first venture firm in 1999, which operated as the first global fund dedicated exclusively to the emerging mobile internet sector. Recognizing early timing challenges in the Nordic market despite the regional dominance of telecommunications companies like Nokia and Ericsson, he subsequently established Creandum as a broader generalist technology investor. Under his leadership, the firm has expanded into a multi-fund operation backing European software-as-a-service startups and aiming to cultivate enterprises on the scale of Google or Facebook. Today, he remains actively involved in fund management and portfolio company operations. Helgesson currently directs the firm's climate investment practice, maintaining a specific focus on electrification technologies and long-term ecosystem development.