Creative Ventures is a method-driven deep tech venture capital firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, rising healthcare cost, and climate crisis. We focus on early-stage deep tech companies in industrial, healthcare, agrifood, and energy. Moreover, with our offices in Asia, we work with Asian family offices as an extended arm for US venture investment and help our portfolio as a technology transfer platform from the US to Asia through venture investing.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2016
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B
News 3
| Date | Title | Description |
| - | Creative Conversations: Opportunities in Medical Diagnostics | Why is the health care system so poorly set up to handle chronic disease? What interesting technolog... |
| - | Creative Conversations: Opportunities in Logistics & War... | Joining Kunal, James Wang (General Partner) discusses the internship and together they dig into the ... |
| - | Creative Conversation: Systematic Investment in Venture Capi... | What is systematic investment in venture capital? Why does Creative Ventures keep talking about it? ... |
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| Date | Name | Title | Description | ||
| 28.09.2022 | Sarah Chen | Senior Ope... | Sarah has a background in public equity with expertise in financial analysis and investment research... | - | - |
| - | Alex Luce | General Pa... | Alex has extensive experience launching and investing in bold entrepreneurial ventures enabled by re... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... |
| - | Linda Poul... | Technical ... | Linda is a serial entrepreneur with deep expertise in robotics, product management, operations, and ... | linkedin.c... | - |
| - | James Wang | General Pa... | James was on the core investment team at Bridgewater Associates, founded a health-tech startup, and ... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... |
| - | Daniel Lin | Operating ... | Daniel is the founder of a tech-landing pad in Asia, FutureWard. With his experience as an internati... | linkedin.c... | - |
| - | Brian Fran... | Technical ... | Brian is the Founder and General Partner of FTW Ventures. He is experienced in both Technology &... | - | - |
| - | Champ Suth... | General Pa... | Champ was chief strategy officer at SHARP Electronics where he headed the digital transformation and... | linkedin.c... | - |
| - | Michael Ma... | Advisor | Managing Director of Montreux Growth Partners. Mr. Mayer began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers... | linkedin.c... | - |
| - | Orn Orpong | Operations... | Orn is an experienced office manager who has supported companies around the world. Here at Creative,... | linkedin.c... | - |
| - | Ted Thirap... | Venture Pa... | After working at a startup in the first dotcom boom, Ted became a C-level executive at one of the fa... | linkedin.c... | - |
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Portfolio 35
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 13.06.2023 | Peanut Rob... | peanutrobo... | - | United Sta... |
| 07.04.2023 | Kolibri | kolibrilab... | - | Metropolit... |
| 03.02.2023 | 3E Nano In... | 3enano.com | $4M | Canada, On... |
| 03.02.2023 | Relectrify | relectrify... | - | Australia,... |
| 30.01.2023 | veeve | veeve.io | - | United Sta... |
| 30.01.2023 | Synvivia | synvivia.c... | - | United Sta... |
| 30.01.2023 | OncoPrecis... | oncoprecis... | $6.85M | Argentina,... |
| 12.07.2022 | Terra CO2 ... | terraco2.c... | $46M | United Sta... |
| 12.07.2022 | FORT Robot... | fortroboti... | $38M | United Sta... |
| 09.11.2021 | Rhaeos | rhaeos.com | $12.7M | United Sta... |
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Mentions in press and media 23
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 13.10.2023 | UH to deliver on tech to DOD, 2 Houston startups raise fundi... | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the p... | houston.in... |
| 10.10.2023 | Houston Innovation Awards names longtime Rice leader as 2023... | In less than a month, all of Houston's innovation community's movers and shakers will gather to cele... | houston.in... |
| 06.10.2023 | Texas burger spot takes bite out of innovative, eco-friendly... | Hearty Austin-based chain Hopdoddy Burger Bar has unveiled a new lineup of regenerative burgers that... | houston.in... |
| 29.09.2023 | Houston-area schools make best universities list, tech nonpr... | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the p... | houston.in... |
| 26.09.2023 | Growing Houston tech nonprofit expands access to textbooks f... | If everyone that attended a college or university were polled, they’d all likely agree that one of t... | houston.in... |
| 21.09.2023 | Houston program buoys promising cancer research with live-sa... | How do you bring promising cancer research to the masses? TMC Innovation's Accelerator for Cancer Th... | houston.in... |
| 22.08.2023 | Massive $32M gift from former patient, new UH deal pump big ... | Leadership at The Texas Heart Institute has two major things to celebrate. First, it just received a... | houston.in... |
| 18.08.2023 | Top hospitals, accelerator's new leader, and more trending H... | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the p... | houston.in... |
| 04.08.2023 | 3 reasons to maintain a follow-on allocation | Champ Suthipongchai Contributor Share on Twitter Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general p... | techcrunch... |
| 31.07.2023 | Houston health tech startup secures $16M series A, prepares ... | Fueled by fresh funding in the bank, a medical device startup has announced upcoming trials. VenoSt... | houston.in... |
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