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Creative Ventures

Founders Alastair Trueger Champ Suthipongchai James Wang

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Total investments 56
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 38
Rounds per year 7.00
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Robotics
  • Industrial Automation
  • Biotechnology
Summary

Creative Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Creative Ventures, startups are often financed by Bold Capital Partners, Applied Ventures, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund). The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Cantos, Wanxiang Healthcare Investments, Vulcan Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The R-Group, LLC, Rogue Venture Partners, Portland Seed Fund.

The fund was created by Alastair Trueger, Champ Suthipongchai, James Wang. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Vericool, Veerum, Alice Technologies. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Consumer, Internet of Things.

The high activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tierra Biosciences, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$11M12 Mar 2024 San Leandro, California, United States

Cytonus Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$11M03 Nov 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Tierra Biosciences, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$17M22 Sep 2023 San Leandro, California, United States

VenoStent

Advanced Materials
Health Care
Medical Device
$16M31 Jul 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

3E Nano

GreenTech
Renewable Energy
Solar
$4M28 Mar 2023 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Rhaeos

Biotechnology
Education
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
Sensor
Wearables
$10M16 Feb 2023 Evanston, Illinois, United States

Relectrify

Energy
Energy Storage
Solar
$9M25 Jan 2023 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

AM Batteries

Electronics
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
$25M25 Oct 2022 Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

PlanetWatchers

Analytics
Computer Vision
Geospatial
Machine Learning
Natural Resources
$11M28 Sep 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
News
Food automation startup Picnic raises more cash as it partners with a top Seattle chef and other groups

– Picnic, a Seattle-based food automation startup, raised $16.3m in new financing.
– The round was led by Thursday Ventures and joined by existing investors Flying Fish Partners, Vulcan Capital, and Creative Ventures.
– The company is also entering a strategic culinary and chef partnership with Seattle’s Ethan Stowell Restaurants which will allow Picnic to showcase its capabilities at local activities like pop-up shops and other events.
– The company employs 25 people and plans to expand significantly over the next year, hiring in sales, marketing and engineering.

VenoStent Raises $2.3M Seed Funding

– VenoStent, an advanced materials company, today announced $2.3 million in seed funding.
– The company leverages its unique polymer engineering technology to develop bioresorbable slip-on polymer wraps, called SelfWrap.
– The product is aimed to eliminate vascular surgery failures, at first targeting vascular access surgery required to initiate hemodialysis treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients.
Creative Ventures led the round with participation from IAG Capital Partners, C3 Ventures, Olima Ventures, Texas Halo Fund, Cowtown Angels, and SP Investment Fund, among other prominent investors.
– This brings the total funding to date to more than $6 million.

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Total investments 56
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 7.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.32
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Tierra Biosciences, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$11M12 Mar 2024 San Leandro, California, United States

Cytonus Therapeutics

Biotechnology
$11M03 Nov 2023 San Diego, California, United States

Tierra Biosciences, Inc.

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Life Science
$17M22 Sep 2023 San Leandro, California, United States

VenoStent

Advanced Materials
Health Care
Medical Device
$16M31 Jul 2023 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

3E Nano

GreenTech
Renewable Energy
Solar
$4M28 Mar 2023 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Rhaeos

Biotechnology
Education
Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical
Medical Device
Neuroscience
Sensor
Wearables
$10M16 Feb 2023 Evanston, Illinois, United States

Relectrify

Energy
Energy Storage
Solar
$9M25 Jan 2023 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

AM Batteries

Electronics
Manufacturing
Renewable Energy
$25M25 Oct 2022 Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

PlanetWatchers

Analytics
Computer Vision
Geospatial
Machine Learning
Natural Resources
$11M28 Sep 2022 London, England, United Kingdom
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