3rd Creek Foundation
VC Fund
Incline Village, United States
3rd Creek Foundation is a small foundation focused on global poverty alleviation through grant-making and impact investing.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 86%
- Fund size:
- $2M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries 3rd Creek Foundation invests in
Stages 3rd Creek Foundation invests in
Countries 3rd Creek Foundation invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Debt Financing
- $10k–$35k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Training 3 (21%)
- Manufacturing 3 (21%)
- Farming 2 (14%)
- Agriculture 2 (14%)
- Health Care 2 (14%)
Stage
- Grant 6 (43%)
- Debt Financing 5 (36%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 7 (50%)
- India 1 (7%)
- Rwanda 1 (7%)
- Uganda 1 (7%)
- Nigeria 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainable agriculture, No Till, Rice, Social, Maize, Soybeans, and consulting | $25K / Debt Financing / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
| Best of Waste recycles organic waste to create carbonized fuel briquettes for cooking. Their products include bow briquettes, biomass, doormats, fireless cookbaskets, flowerpots, bow energy-saving cook stoves, and bow briquettes. | $12K / Debt Financing / Dec 22, 2020 | ||
| Water Access Rwanda offers water access services for locating groundwater, drilling boreholes, installing solar pumps, installing water filters, and other projects. All living beings are water-dependent, and productive sectors require water, there is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to providing water. | $490K / Dec 08, 2020 | ||
| SI4DEV provides training on practical skills to achieve democracy, quality healthcare, and economic prosperity for grassroots communities.. | Grant / Jul 01, 2020 | ||
| Whole Forest sells flooring, wall tiles, commercial tables, countertops, home tables, and cutting boards, among other things. They make carbon-neutral hardwood floors. They provide a five-year guarantee. | $15K / Debt Financing / Apr 23, 2020 | ||
| GreenWood Global creates wood raw materials for artisan production and other traditional uses. They promote woodworking technology and support the use of lesser-known and lower-value tree species, waste wood, and nontimber forest products. | $10K / Debt Financing / Dec 12, 2019 | ||
| The Charcoal Project provides support and advocacy for the broad adoption of sustainable fuel alternatives, clean burning technologies, and policies that help individuals who depend on biomass as their primary fuel in the community reduce their energy poverty. | Grant / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Kleiner Device Labs is the developer of surgical instruments and implants designed to improve the process and outcomes of minimally invasive spinal surgery. The company's innovative devices streamline MIS procedures, enabling surgeons to carry out safe, easy, and efficacious surgeries. Kleiner Device Labs has a deep portfolio ofIP/patents and a robust product pipeline, including instruments and implants which improve bone graft delivery to the inter-vertebral space, integrate cage placement and graft delivery to reduce procedure steps and simplify spinal fusion surgery overall. The company's first commercially available product, a Bi-Directional Graft Funnel (KG™ 1), works with any viscosity of biologic graft material, provides a more efficient and safer delivery vehicle for bone graft extenders, facilitates grafting in front of or alongside all types of inter-body cages and can eliminate or reduce surgeon dependency on BMP.The (KG™ 2) Solid State Fusion Cage simplifies and standardizes bone graft delivery by utilizing our patented "flow-through" technology, integrating cage implantation and bone graft delivery to effectively reduce steps, OR time, and the potential for operative complications in MIS Fusion Surgery. The (KG™ 2) was submitted for 510(k) clearance to the FDA in 2021, with anticipated approval in Q3 of 2021. The (KG™ 2) does not have 510(k) clearance at this time.The Endplate Preparation System (DragonTail™) offers a unique, single pass instrument that allows a 120 degree arc of endplate preparation and multiple tip options that allows increased access to the contra-lateral disk space. Development is nearing the FDA submission phase sometime in Q4 of 2021. The (DragonTail™) does not have 510(k) clearance at this time.Additional IP surrounding instruments and implants are part of the company's patent portfolio, and further down the product development pipeline. | $770K / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| Nấm Tươi Cười specializes in the production and processing of mushrooms. | $35K / Debt Financing / Aug 01, 2017 | ||
| Street Business School provides entrepreneurship training, equips women living in poverty with the knowledge they need to build sustainable businesses, and empowers them to believe in themselves and seize opportunities. It is to end generational poverty by empowering women as entrepreneurs. | Grant / Jan 01, 2017 | ||
| See all 14 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does 3rd Creek Foundation invest in?
3rd Creek Foundation invests primarily in Training, Manufacturing and Farming startups, most often at Grant and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does 3rd Creek Foundation invest in?
3rd Creek Foundation typically joins rounds of $10k–$35k at Debt Financing. These are whole funding-round sizes, not 3rd Creek Foundation's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds 3rd Creek Foundation took part in.
When did 3rd Creek Foundation last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for 3rd Creek Foundation closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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