Fund profile

Creative Ventures

Oakland, United States

Leading

About

Creative Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on market-driven deep technology investments. They invest in early-stage B2B companies that are commercializing novel scientific and engineering innovations. Key investment sectors include climate change adaptation and mitigation, healthcare, and addressing labor shortages in industrial and service sectors. The firm prides itself on a market-first approach, ensuring that the technologies they invest in are primed to meet existing market demand rather than speculative future needs. This strategy helps mitigate risks associated with deep tech investments​ (Creative Ventures)​​ (Creative Ventures)​. Creative Ventures has been a lead or co-lead investor in 80% of their investments from the current fund, often being the first institutional investor on a company's cap table​. Notable portfolio companies include Path Robotics, Sepion Technologies, and OncoPrecision, which focus on autonomous welding robots, advanced materials for energy storage, and oncology drug efficacy, respectively​. The team, led by General Partners Alex Luce and Kulika Weizman, brings extensive expertise in areas such as material science, synthetic biology, and biotechnology.

Details

Highlights

$1.8M

Historical average check

$44M

Historical max check

October 2024

Last investment date

60

Investments

Energy & Utilities

Consumer Goods & Electronics

Software & Apps

Pharma

Biotech

Healthtech & Wellness

Hardware. Robotics & IoT

Food & Beverage

Natural Resources

Other

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