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Creative Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Creative Ventures is a deep‑tech venture firm that backs early‑stage companies applying real‑world AI, robotics, energy‑storage, synthetic biology, and advanced materials to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They focu...
Portfolio
33+
Employees
40+
Founded
2016
AUM
≈ $125.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Artificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyClean TechnologyEnergy
Geographic scope
Global
Fund details
Funds
Creative Ventures Fund I
Vintage 2014 • $11.0M
Creative Ventures Fund II
Vintage 2017 • $50.0M
Creative Ventures Fund LP
Vintage 2020 • $15.0M
Creative Ventures Fund II LP
Vintage 2021 • $49.7M
Sources
Creative Ventures
Creative Ventures is a deep‑tech venture firm that backs early‑stage companies applying real‑world AI, robotics, energy‑storage, synthetic biology, and advanced materials to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. They focus on founders developing technologies with tangible impact across climate, industry, health, and computing, seeking breakthroughs that can be commercialized at scale.
Portfolio
33+
Employees
40+
Founded
2016
AUM
≈ $125.0M
Funds
Creative Ventures Fund I · Vintage 2014 • $11.0M
Creative Ventures Fund II · Vintage 2017 • $50.0M
Creative Ventures Fund LP · Vintage 2020 • $15.0M
Creative Ventures Fund II LP · Vintage 2021 • $49.7M
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Artificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyClean TechnologyEnergyIndustrial Automation
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
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AirWorks develops AI-powered software that automates the generation of precise linework from aerial data, enabling rapid production of high-quality maps for civil engineering and surveying projects. This technology significantly reduces project turnaround times to an average of four days, allowing firms to take on more work and improve their bidding success.
Funding: $25.5M
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PSG Equity
PSG Equity
Funding: $25.5M
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ALICE is an AI‑powered construction optioneering platform that automates generative scheduling and rapid "what‑if" scenario simulation. By uploading existing schedules and design models, users can explore millions of construction sequences, evaluate cost, time and resource impacts, and select optimal plans within minutes, helping owners, developers and contractors reduce risk, improve efficiency, and increase profitability.
Funding: $13.0M
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+ 1 Other investorSwire Properties
+ 1 Other investorSwire Properties
Funding: $13.0M
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This startup manufactures lithium-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode technology, which eliminates the need for solvent recovery and drying processes. By producing dry electrodes, the company reduces energy consumption in battery manufacturing while enabling faster charging and lower-cost batteries.
50+
3K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $73.8M
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Mass. Manufacturing Innovation Initiative
Mass. Manufacturing Innovation Initiative
Funding: $73.8M
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OpenSeek is an AI‑driven recruitment platform that automatically parses resumes, extracts structured skill data, and semantically matches candidates to job descriptions, delivering ranked shortlists with confidence scores. It also generates personalized outreach emails, schedules interviews, and provides real‑time pipeline analytics, while integrating with major ATS and HRIS systems via APIs and meeting GDPR/CCPA security standards.
Funding: $5.0M
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Funding: $5.0M
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Provides an AI-powered platform for electronic engineering teams to automatically generate and optimize circuit schematics and component selections based on user-defined architectural diagrams and requirements. This reduces design time from weeks or months to seconds, minimizes errors, and ensures cost, size, and performance optimization by evaluating trillions of design combinations.
Funding: $17.4M
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Intel Ignite
Intel Ignite
Funding: $17.4M
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C. Light Technologies has developed the Retitrack™, a compact retinal eye-tracking platform that measures fixational eye movements and saccades to provide objective metrics for assessing oculomotor function. This technology addresses the limitations of traditional bedside tools by enabling healthcare practitioners to accurately monitor neurodegenerative diseases through detailed analysis of eye movement patterns.
Dishcraft develops robotic systems that automate dishwashing and sanitation processes in foodservice operations. This technology addresses labor shortages and reduces water and energy consumption, enhancing sustainability in the industry.
Funding: $20.0M
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Grit Ventures
Grit Ventures
Funding: $20.0M
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Exo develops handheld ultrasound devices integrated with artificial intelligence for imaging and therapeutic applications in medical settings. These devices enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficiency, addressing the need for portable and user-friendly imaging solutions in healthcare.
Funding: $349.1M
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Funding: $349.1M
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FORT Robotics offers a SIL 3‑certified distributed control platform that provides wireless safety commands, secure real‑time communications, and functional‑safety compliance for autonomous machines. Its hardware modules and cloud‑based management service let robot manufacturers, system integrators, and end‑users quickly add certified safety guardrails, enabling reliable operation of robots in high‑risk environments such as warehouses, construction sites, and defense operations.
Funding: $18.9M
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+ 9 Other investorsTiger Global Management
+ 9 Other investorsTiger Global Management
Funding: $18.9M
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The startup specializes in drill-free, patient-specific dental implants using three-dimensional scanning and design technology. This approach provides a safe and efficient solution for individuals experiencing tooth loss, ensuring a faster and more accessible treatment process.
Funding: $9.1M
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Funding: $9.1M
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IMVARIA develops AI-driven digital biomarkers that analyze imaging and lab data to provide non-invasive diagnostic support for interstitial lung disease, particularly idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Their FDA-authorized tool, Fibresolve, enables clinicians to classify disease subtypes and expedite diagnosis, reducing the need for invasive biopsy procedures.
Funding: $3.0M
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Creative Ventures
Creative Ventures
Funding: $3.0M
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IOTAS provides smart apartment technology that integrates IoT devices, allowing residents to control lighting, locks, and temperature through mobile apps and voice assistants. This system enhances property management efficiency by automating routine tasks and enabling real-time alerts for maintenance issues, ultimately reducing operational costs and improving resident satisfaction.
Founded 2014
This startup develops a novel cell-culture platform designed to optimize biologics manufacturing, initially focusing on gene therapies. Their technology aims to improve the efficiency and scalability of producing complex biological therapeutics.
Funding: $2.8M
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Funding: $2.8M
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Mobio Interactive offers a remote patient monitoring platform that utilizes facial photoplethysmography and deep neural networks to objectively assess therapy effectiveness in mental health treatment. This technology enables personalized interventions that have been clinically validated to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress across diverse patient populations.
Funding: $4.4M
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OPPO Inspiration Challenge
OPPO Inspiration Challenge
Funding: $4.4M
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The startup manufactures a low-cost, thermally and optically smart diamond-like carbon coating that can be applied to polymers and transparent media. This technology enables window and windshield manufacturers to create energy control products that effectively reduce heat and light transmission, thereby lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Funding: $5.9M
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Funding: $5.9M
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OncoPrecision Corporation utilizes single-cell high-throughput biology and artificial intelligence/machine learning to enhance the efficacy of cancer therapies. The company focuses on increasing treatment success rates by providing precise insights into tumor heterogeneity and patient-specific responses.
Funding: $4.2M
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Funding: $4.2M
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Oncoustics utilizes AI to analyze raw ultrasound signals, transforming low-cost Point of Care Ultrasound devices into effective diagnostic tools for liver disease detection and monitoring. This technology enables clinicians to perform rapid, non-invasive assessments in approximately five minutes, improving patient access to timely care while reducing the need for costly referrals and invasive procedures.
Activation Capital
Peanut develops AI-enabled cleaning robots that autonomously navigate and monitor commercial spaces, utilizing transformer and LLM-based robotics models for enhanced efficiency. With over 13,000 hours of operational data, these robots provide a cost-effective solution to the labor-intensive cleaning challenges faced by hotels and corporate buildings.
Funding: $9.6M
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Funding: $9.6M
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The startup has developed an automated pizza assembly station that precisely applies sauce, cheese, meat, and vegetables to dough, minimizing human contact with food ingredients to enhance safety and cleanliness. This system streamlines kitchen operations, significantly reducing preparation time and labor costs for pizza restaurants, enabling them to serve customers more efficiently.
PlanetWatchers provides automated acreage reporting and claims validation services for the North American crop insurance industry, utilizing advanced satellite imagery and SAR analysis to enhance data accuracy. By delivering precise crop damage maps and timely policy data, the company significantly reduces the time and costs associated with field assessments and claims processing.
Funding: $19.4M
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Creative VenturesSeraphim Space
Creative VenturesSeraphim Space
Funding: $19.4M
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Relectrify develops CellSwitch™, a cell-level battery control technology that integrates battery management and bi-directional inverter functions, enhancing energy storage system performance. This solution extends battery life by 20-30% and increases revenue potential by over 20%, addressing the high costs and inefficiencies associated with traditional battery storage systems.
Funding: $19.4M
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At One Ventures
At One Ventures
Funding: $19.4M
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Revr provides a cloud‑based platform that uses advanced machine‑learning and high‑performance computing to generate and evaluate protein sequences at scale. Users specify functional targets and receive candidate designs optimized for stability, activity, and manufacturability, with integrated simulation tools and an API/web interface for seamless R&D workflow integration.
Funding: $11.4M
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+ 5 Other investorsMaterial Impact
+ 5 Other investorsMaterial Impact
Funding: $11.4M
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Rhaeos develops FlowSense®, a non-invasive, wireless wearable sensor that assesses shunt flow in hydrocephalus patients within minutes. This technology addresses the challenge of detecting shunt malfunctions, which affects over one million Americans and contributes to significant healthcare costs and high readmission rates.
Funding: $12.7M
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National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
Funding: $12.7M
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Sense Photonics develops 3D vision systems utilizing advanced LiDAR technology to enhance object detection and spatial awareness in industrial and automotive applications. Their systems improve operational efficiency and safety by providing precise real-time data for navigation and automation tasks.
Founded 2016