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Creative Ventures

Creative Ventures is a deep tech venture firm investing in early-stage companies solving humanity’s most critical crises.

San Francisco, CA, USA

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Description

Creative Ventures is a deep-tech venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm focuses on early-stage companies addressing critical global macroeconomic trends, specifically labor shortages, climate change, and rising healthcare costs.
  • Seed & Series A: Creative Ventures is a high-conviction, early-stage investor. They prefer to act as a lead or co-lead investor.
  • Deep Tech focus: They invest in companies where the core value is driven by breakthrough technology rather than just business model innovation.
Creative Ventures operates as a traditional institutional VC firm rather than a batch-based accelerator. 
  • Method: Founders typically engage through warm introductions or by submitting technical materials via their website portal.
  • Selection Criteria: They employ a "thematic" investment approach, specifically looking for technical solutions that solve "massive, unavoidable" global problems. 

Eligibility

  • Sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, Synthetic Biology, HealthTech (Diagnostics & Medical Devices), AgriTech, and Climate Infrastructure.
  • Geography: Primarily United States based, though they have strong ties and an active presence in Southeast Asia for market expansion.
  • Traction: They invest in "pre-revenue" companies if the technical milestones are significant and the intellectual property is strong. 

Process

  1. Technical Vetting: Unlike generalist firms, they perform deep technical due diligence to ensure the underlying science or engineering is sound and defensible.
  2. Macro-Alignment: The team evaluates how the startup aligns with their three core pillars (Healthcare, Labor, and Climate).
  3. Collaborative Diligence: They work closely with founders to map out the regulatory and commercial path to scale.
  4. Board Participation: They typically take a board seat or observer role to provide active governance and strategic support. 

What an Applicant can Obtain

  1. Specialized Capital: Access to funding from a firm that understands the long development cycles of deep-tech and hardware.
  2. Global Market Entry: Direct assistance for U.S. companies looking to scale their manufacturing or sales into Asian markets.
  3. Technical Mentorship: Guidance from a team with backgrounds in engineering, medicine, and complex system design.
  4. Network Access: Introductions to specialized corporate partners and later-stage deep-tech investors.