Peter Specht

1/ A good #deck is an important factor in maximising your fundraising success. To help you do so, we’ve build a Series A Deck Template @creandum Summarising my thoughts from reviewing many decks in this thread 🧵👇

The team at @creandum have had one of the greatest weeks in European Venture history: > Trade Republic got valued at €12.5bn - the team backed them at Series A back in 2019 > Lovable got valued at $6.6bn - the team backed them at their pre-Series A in January 2025 > Fuse Energy got valued at $5bn - the team invested in their Series A back in 2022 3 insane companies across Germany, Sweden and the UK. The markup their funds must have seen this week is wild. When we look back at this period and analyse fund performance I wouldn't be at all surprised if Creandum comes out on top. Amazing stuff from the team @specht_p, @_fredrik, @fritjofsson, @simonschmincke, @filiphmark

Thrilled to announce that @Abacum_ai has raised a $60m Series B led by @scalevp with strong participation from @Cathayinnov.

@ColeRotman @ilyasu @peterjhebert This is an amazing list @ColeRotman, thanks for pulling and crowdsourcing the data. Some companies to add from Europe: - revolut >45bn (A led by Balderton) - Trade Republic, >5bn (A led by Creandum) - Celonis, >10bn (A led by Accel, 83North)

Love Lovable 2.0. #creandumfamily

@dennismuellr @tryamie Pumped. AI meeting notes and automations have been a game changer. Let's go Amie 2.0

today we're vibe shifting amie.so 2.0 i've spent >17% of my life working on @tryamie. and after a tough year of almost starting over: i feel proud again of what we've build. today every lil bit of support means the world to us. as a lil `thank you` we've reset all trials :)

@Atla_AI beating the benchmarks

You can tell from the smile I’m happy to be working with @antonosika, @FabianHedin and the team at @lovable. Very proud we get to talk about Creandum’s investment in public Thanks @HummingbirdVC, @byFounders & many angels for welcoming us creandum.com/stories/backin…

@masylum @fika_bar 👏👏

I'm launching a new product soon: Handinger! While working on @fika_bar I built a cheap way to fetch metadata, screenshots and markdown content from websites. I've just extracted it from fika and productized it. Try it out and bring me feedback! handinger.com

Excited to back @nicckopp @RilletHQ - the next gen AI powered automated accounting / ERP. @creandum and @firstround leading a $13.5m funding. In best company w @Gloria_Bae, @scottbelsky, @cjc, @chadbyers, @kevinhartz. Our thesis here creandum.com/stories/backin…

1. Big news from @RilletHQ !  We are excited to announce our $13.5M funding led by @firstround and @creandum , with participation from @SusaVentures , @BoxGroup , Go Global Ventures, Puzzle Ventures and an incredible group of builders, operators and angels.  2. Our investors We raised $13.5M to build the next generation accounting platform from some of the world's best investors who backed Uber, Square, Notion, Spotify, Klarna, Robinhood, Ramp, Plaid, Palantir, SpaceX, Airbnb and more. We are lucky to have incredible supporters like @btrenchard, @specht_p , @chadbyers , @kevinhartz , @scottbelsky , @cjc , @dvlamoen , @spillda , Michael Yip, Edwine Alphonse.  3.  What is Rillet Rillet is the next-gen accounting platform purpose built to automate end-to-end accounting workflows. We pull in metadata from your CRM, billing, AP, payroll and automatically create invoices, bills, journal entries, deferred revenue schedules, prepaid schedules, billing forecasts and many more. 93% of journal entries booked in Rillet to date have been done without a human having ever been involved 🤯.  4. Our customers We are lucky to have 70+ customers and hundreds of supporters who share our vision of revamping the ERP from the ground up. We are currently helping those in SaaS, usage and AI finance teams across multiple geographies, currencies and entities 🌍. And we are working hard to bring this magical experience to more industries and countries. 5. Who are we We’re a team of accountants and engineers. We grew frustrated with manual data reconciliation and the arduous implementations and migrations from QBO to Sage, Netsuite and back. We are capable of building reusable rockets 🚀 to space, surely we can build a better accounting and financial system! 6. What is Rillet’s vision We want to make zero day close a reality. In practical terms, this means continuous close, having your information from CRM, billing, AP, payroll etc all sync’d live instantaneously with your accounting system, and having your numbers, metrics, performance real-time for decision making. No more reporting 10 days after quarter end, report day ZERO.  7. We are hiring We are in growth mode, check out rillet.com/careers/ if you share our passion for accounting. If you don’t see a role suitable to your talent and can convince me how you can help move the company forward, drop me a note. 8. Community and events Join us at community@rillet.com and we look forward to seeing you at our future events.   One step closer to zero day close. Read more in comments below.

@sarahdrinkwater @robindchnt @getkwest Thanks. Sooo many stakeholders wish for change in the space - all about the how. @RilletHQ

@robindchnt @getkwest @specht_p Liked this too. And every time I’ve seen “cracking x is hard but team did x upfront” it feels like a very good sign (vs mvp product & early revenue that churns) Related: been thinking about intranets & how much I would like to see a smooth product that is central sources of truth

thought a lot about new ERPs when building @getkwest since we've got asked to integrate with ERPs really like @specht_p take on different approaches to build a next-gen ERP and investment in Rillet: creandum.com/stories/backin…

Exciting news! We’ve just closed our 7th fund, raising €500m to find and back Europe’s winners at Seed and Series A 💚 Here’s a little video we made to introduce the new fund...

Most VCs ranking their board member positions on Linkedin not chronologically but by success of company. If you wanna know how a company is doing, you know where to look ;)

This is how you do a proper launch video

your calendar is your personal philosophy… hear our vision for today and tomorrow:

@dennismuellr The new wesbite is sick.

today we're launching amie.so — anyone can start using it now.

@dennismuellr You have put so much craft and love into this @dennismuellr and @tryamie. Worth all the hard work and time. It’s been a true pleasure to be part of this since 3.9 of the 4 years :) Glad everyone can now became a user.

Congrats @montadotcom. €80m Series B. LFG. #creandumfamily tech.eu/2024/01/23/cop…