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Creative Ventures
Venture capital · San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States · North America
Creative Ventures is a deep tech venture firm that invests in early-stage companies. It backs founders building technologies with real-world impact across climate, industry, health, and computing, and has been investing since 2016 in AI-enablers such as energy storage and semiconductors, as well as AI and biodata.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdeep techartificial intelligencebiodataclimatesemiconductorsenergy storage
Your fit with Creative Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsCreative Ventures lists 28 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (28%), Industrial & Manufacturing (25%) and AI & Machine Learning (15%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside StartX, GRIDS Capital and Blackhorn Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Creative Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Creative Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 28. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 100% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 65th | 28 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 44th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 28% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 25% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 5% | 4% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| StartX | 6 |
| GRIDS Capital | 3 |
| Blackhorn Ventures | 2 |
| Brick & Mortar Ventures | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| FundersClub | 2 |
| IndieBio | 2 |
| SOSV | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2796%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Creative Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Creative Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Aug 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Creative Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Creative Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
28 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirWorks provides AI-enabled field intelligence solutions for engineering project workflows | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| ALICE Technologies develops and provides AI construction project planning and scheduling software | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AM Batteries manufactures lithium-ion battery electrodes using a dry coating process | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Caper develops and provides smart shopping cart technology with AI to retailers | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an artificial intelligence platform for electronics design and verification | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| C. Light Technologies is a healthtech company focused on creating cutting-edge eye-tracking solutions for clinical use | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Exo develops and provides ultrasound and artificial intelligence technology for medical imaging and diagnostics | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| FORT Robotics provides safety solutions and services for the robotics industry, including hardware, software, and consulting services to ensure safe and efficient operation of robots in various environments. | Robotics & HardwareCybersecurity | Aug 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| The company develops and provides 3D-printed dental implants | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Imvaria pioneers AI inference across clinical testing and imaging to generate novel physiologic signatures | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| IOTAS offers global testing solutions to the wireless community, specializing in field testing | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Mobio Interactive develops a platform that uses smartphone camera-derived physiological signals to measure mental health | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| NxLite creates innovative coatings for windows and transparent barriers, working to dramatically reduce energy consumption. | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| OncoPrecision is an oncology therapeutics company developing precision medicines for patients with cancer. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Oncoustics creates and deploys advanced AI solutions for low-cost, non-invasive surveillance, diagnostics, and treatment monitoring of diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Peanut Robotics develops and deploys general purpose robots for tasks such as cleaning, using AI enabled models | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Picnic automates pizza assembly lines to speed up production, increase consistency, and reduce waste in kitchens | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| PlanetWatchers automates policy data capture and claims validation for crop insurers | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Relectrify designs and manufactures battery energy storage systems | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Rhaeos assesses hydrocephalus shunt flow with a non-invasive device called FlowSense | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- creativeventures.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 28
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