Jakob Stein’s Post

When Richard and I took some trains throughout CEE to meet aI first founders last summer, there was one meeting that stood out by a mile. Today, we are incredibly excited that our Series A in EquiLibre Technologies is finally public! Martin, Rudolf and Matej are such a great proof that world-class technical excellence, paired with truly outsized ambition, can win in the most competitive markets we humans have ever created. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The Czech national team might already be out of the World Cup - but this team out of Prague is winning in the US - every. single. week. This post would feel incomplete without mentioning our friends at Credo Ventures who initiated our first meeting with Martin and nudged us just in time when the door to engage opened up a tiny bit - cheers to you Ondrej & Jakub. Once that happened Staffan immediately cleared every meeting on his calendar for two days and we went all in. A very proud moment of how everyone at Creandum always puts the pedal to the metal when the moment is right. Fun Fact: For the IC, Martin drove all the way from Prague to Berlin to give an in-person lecture in our office to our investment team on RL and HFT and then drove back to deploy a new model with his team that same night. EquiLibre Technologies x Creandum for the win & the TechCrunch article in the comments. PS: If you are building ai first companies in CEE especially beyond LLM applications -> Richard and I are on the road in 3 weeks again to find you!