Creative Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Creative Ventures is a deep tech venture firm investing in early-stage companies solving humanity’s most critical crises. Led by a team of world-class experts, our deep tech acumen is informed by rigorous research, unmatched market understanding, and the dedication to lead our companies to success.Today’s problems can’t be solved by yesterday’ssolutions. Let’s get Creative.
- Total investments:
- 71
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Creative Ventures invests in
Stages Creative Ventures invests in
Countries Creative Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$5M
- Series A
- $7.4M–$25M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $5M–$6.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (20%)
- Health Care 12 (17%)
- Biotechnology 8 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (11%)
- Medical 6 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 31 (44%)
- Series A 12 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (10%)
- Series B 4 (6%)
- Funding Round 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 32 (45%)
- Canada 4 (6%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
- France 1 (1%)
- Argentina 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thanathon Sihawong
Analyst
|
Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alex Luce
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Champ Suthipongchai
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Daniel Lin
Operating Partner; Operating Partner
|
Operating Partner; Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
James Wang
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Picnic
|
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the firstautomated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 29, 2024 | |
Relectrify
|
Relectrify develops and supplies advanced battery control solutions, which increase the lifetime and reduce the cost of battery storage systems. The company's cell-level battery management and inverter technology is used in battery storage globally including for homes, industry and the grid, and is suitable for both second-life and newbatteries. | $17M / Series B / May 29, 2024 | |
Tierra Biosciences
|
Tierra Biosciences is an operator of a synthetic biology company intended to accelerate the pace of discovery to enable the next generation of bioengineered products. The company's protein platform leverages cell-free protein production and artificial intelligence and couples high-throughput protein manufacturing with the simplicity ofe-commerce. | $11.4M / Series A / Mar 12, 2024 | |
AM Batteries
|
AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. | $44M / Series B / Nov 09, 2023 | |
Cytonus Therapeutics
|
Cytonus Therapeutics is a biotech company that develops a therapeutic platform designed to treat immune-related disorders. The Cargocyte platform at Cytonus has diverse applications as it can be engineered to target specific tissues and can deliver strategic therapeutic payloads. | $11.7M / Series A / Nov 03, 2023 | |
Factagora
|
AI experts with factual data. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 30, 2023 | |
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Tierra Biosciences
|
Tierra Biosciences is an operator of a synthetic biology company intended to accelerate the pace of discovery to enable the next generation of bioengineered products. The company's protein platform leverages cell-free protein production and artificial intelligence and couples high-throughput protein manufacturing with the simplicity ofe-commerce. | $17.6M / Series A / Sep 22, 2023 | |
VenoStent
|
VenoStent is a clinical-stage tissue engineering company that’s developed tunable, bioabsorbable smart polymer wraps in order to fundamentally transform the 5 million vascular surgeries performed each year. | $16M / Series A / Jul 31, 2023 | |
NxLite
|
3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers. | $4M / Seed / Mar 28, 2023 | |
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Picnic
|
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the firstautomated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes. | Mar 23, 2023 | |
| See all 71 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Creative Ventures invest in?
Creative Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Creative Ventures's check size?
Creative Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5M at Seed, $7.4M–$25M at Series A and $5M–$6.7M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Creative Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Creative Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Creative Ventures?
The team at Creative Ventures includes Thanathon Sihawong (Analyst), Alex Luce (General Partner) and Champ Suthipongchai (General Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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