Creative Ventures

Creative Ventures is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Oakland, California. The firm focuses on early-stage investments that address critical global-scale challenges through innovative solutions. It primarily targets sectors such as business products, industrial applications, agri-food, healthcare, automation, automotive, construction, logistics, manufacturing, climate, and energy. By identifying and funding companies with deployable solutions, Creative Ventures aims to set a new standard for method-driven venture capital, investing both in the United States and internationally.

Kulika Chomvong

Principal

Daniel Lin

Operating Partner

Alex Luce Ph.D

General Partner

Supawat Stamp Suksantiswad

Senior Associate

Champ Suthipongchai

Co-Founder & General Partner

Ted Thirapatana

Venture Partner

Alastair Trueger

General Partner

James Wang

General Partner

Kulika Weizman Ph.D

General Partner

36 past transactions

Terra CO2 Technologies

Series A in 2022
Terra CO2 Technologies is an industrial technology company that reduces material and logistics costs while reducing the environmental footprint in the cement and mining sectors. It develops innovative environmental technologies to tackle challenging environmental problems. It was founded in 2012 and employs a diverse group of engineers, scientists, and specialists to bring projects from the ideation stage to market.

FORT Robotics

Series B in 2022
FORT Robotics, Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of wireless control systems designed for dangerous machinery. The company provides a range of safety devices, including industrial wireless remote control systems and wireless emergency stop mechanisms that enhance productivity while preventing accidents. Its vehicle safety controllers serve multiple functions, acting as safety receivers, wireless emergency stop systems, and CAN bus bridges. FORT Robotics' solutions are utilized in various sectors, including construction, agriculture, manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, and mobile robotics, facilitating the safe operation of autonomous systems, industrial machinery, and heavy equipment. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company leverages over a decade of expertise in safety technology to address the needs of these industries.

Rhaeos

Seed Round in 2021
Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeos represents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.

OncoPrecision

Seed Round in 2021
We're developing personalized assays to determine the most suitable medication for cancer therapy at the patient level. Through our proprietary Drug Activity Ranking, oncologists will be able to make data-driven decisions regarding cancer therapy selection based on patient-derived samples. Our goal is to democratize access to precision oncology to improve patients' lives.

AM Batteries

Seed Round in 2021
AM Batteries manufactures Li-ion batteries using solvent-free electrode manufacturing technology. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

PlanetWatchers

Seed Round in 2021
PlanetWatchers, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides a geospatial analytics platform designed for monitoring natural assets across various sectors, including forestry and oil and gas. Founded in 2016, the company utilizes a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to deliver its solutions to enterprises, governments, and non-governmental organizations. By integrating advanced machine learning algorithms, elastic cloud infrastructure, and multi-source satellite sensors, PlanetWatchers offers a comprehensive monitoring and alerting system. This technology enables users to manage large-scale assets effectively, providing critical information that supports decision-making and operational efficiency at both global and regional levels.

Picnic

Series A in 2021
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions. Vivid Robotics, Inc. Picnic(hellopicnic.com), 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 first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

FORT Robotics

Venture Round in 2021
FORT Robotics, Inc. specializes in the development and manufacturing of wireless control systems designed for dangerous machinery. The company provides a range of safety devices, including industrial wireless remote control systems and wireless emergency stop mechanisms that enhance productivity while preventing accidents. Its vehicle safety controllers serve multiple functions, acting as safety receivers, wireless emergency stop systems, and CAN bus bridges. FORT Robotics' solutions are utilized in various sectors, including construction, agriculture, manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, and mobile robotics, facilitating the safe operation of autonomous systems, industrial machinery, and heavy equipment. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company leverages over a decade of expertise in safety technology to address the needs of these industries.

VenoStent

Seed Round in 2021
VenoStent, Inc. is a biomaterials and bioengineering company based in Nashville, Tennessee, with an additional office in Houston, Texas. Established in 2017, the company specializes in developing bioresorbable smart polymers aimed at enhancing vascular surgery outcomes. Its primary product, SelfWrap, is a perivascular wrap designed to minimize complications at the junctions of veins and arteries, particularly for dialysis patients. SelfWrap functions as an external stent that promotes outward vein growth and provides mechanical support, thereby reducing the risk of vein collapse. By focusing on innovative solutions in vascular care, VenoStent aims to improve patient outcomes and transform surgical practices.

VEERUM

Series A in 2021
VEERUM Inc. is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company based in Calgary, Canada, that specializes in digital technology for asset ownership. Founded in 2014, the company has developed an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to predict and resolve project issues, thereby optimizing asset management throughout the lifecycle of design, fabrication, and construction. VEERUM's Asset Visualization Platform allows stakeholders to access real-time data and insights through a secure cloud-based solution, presenting aggregated asset information within a 3D model for enhanced transparency and audit history. By leveraging sensor technology to create digital replicas of physical projects, VEERUM aids clients in accelerating their transition to digital asset ownership, ultimately supporting the development and maintenance of critical infrastructure.

C. Light Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
C. Light Technologies, Inc. operates as a neurotech and AI company that develops an eye tracking technology for neurological health. It offers machine learning algorithms and instrument that monitors multiple sclerosis (MS) by measuring neurological activity through imaging the retina. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Picnic

Venture Round in 2020
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions. Vivid Robotics, Inc. Picnic(hellopicnic.com), 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 first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

Picnic

Venture Round in 2020
Picnic B.V. is an online grocery store based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which was founded in 2015. The company operates a platform that allows users to order groceries at competitive prices, with a focus on providing cost-effective services. Customers can place orders through the application for next-day delivery, with the company coordinating with local bakers, greengrocers, and other suppliers to fulfill these orders. Picnic distinguishes itself by utilizing electric vehicles for delivery, ensuring a sustainable approach to grocery shopping. The founders of the company are Frederik Nieuwenhuys, Joris Beckers, and Michiel Muller.

AirWorks

Seed Round in 2020
AirWorks Solutions, LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in aerial mapping and surveying software tailored for the construction industry. The company emerged from MIT in 2018 and has developed a patented algorithm and web application that transforms aerial datasets into engineering base plans compatible with CAD systems. This innovative software streamlines the surveying process, allowing land developers and engineers to evaluate more job sites efficiently and significantly reducing the time required for data processing. By automating the conversion of aerial data, AirWorks enables clients to avoid the need for local processing resources and extensive training, ultimately accelerating project timelines and enhancing productivity in construction planning and acquisition.

Mobio Interactive

Seed Round in 2020
Mobio Interactive Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in developing digital tools aimed at enhancing mental health and performance for both consumers and clinical populations. Founded in 2014, Mobio has created applications such as Am Mindfulness, Wildflowers Mindfulness, and Actify Mindfulness, which provide medical-grade mindfulness training. These applications uniquely offer remote and objective assessments of mindfulness meditation efficacy by measuring various physiological indicators, including heart rate and blood oxygen saturation, before and after usage. Am Mindfulness, a key product, is a clinically validated digital therapeutic that allows users to engage with the platform securely and privately through mobile devices, independent of wearables. It has demonstrated effectiveness in clinical trials, outperforming placebo in multiple studies. Additionally, Mobio is involved in extensive clinical research in psycho-oncology, targeting one of the most stress-affected patient groups. The company also has offices in Zurich, Switzerland, and Shanghai, China.

Identical

Seed Round in 2020
Identical is a developer of personalized dental implants used to make tooth replacement more accessible and affordable for everyone. Its implants are drill-free and non-invasive and use the latest 3D technology that enables dentists to deliver personalized dental implants in a faster and safer way. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.

imvaria

Seed Round in 2020
imvaria was founded in 2019 by a team of physician-engineers from Stanford and Google, seeking to empower clinicians and improve patient outcomes through the development and application of modern computer science techniques to complex and serious clinical problems. The company's Digital Biomarker Platform enables non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic patient stratification via data science and machine learning.

Picnic

Venture Round in 2019
Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions. Vivid Robotics, Inc. Picnic(hellopicnic.com), 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 first automated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes.

Riven

Seed Round in 2019
Riven is an industrial engineering company that provides mass-deployable quality control solutions for advanced manufacturing. It makes product measurement simple with a fully digital toolset including mass-deployable, 3D scanning, automatic measurement, and instant sharing of data across the supply chain. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

MODit 3D Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
MODit provides smart, automated quality control for manufacturing. MODit's mass-deployable 3D scanning systems and cloud platform increase yields and streamline quality communication across the supply chain.

FTW Venture

Venture Round in 2019
FTW Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in California that invests in innovative hardware, software, and biotechnology solutions aimed at enhancing the global food system. The firm focuses on food technology and biotechnology companies across the United States, with a mission to improve the quality, accessibility, and enjoyment of food through responsible science and technology. Founded by Brian Frank, a serial entrepreneur turned investor, FTW Ventures seeks to support breakthrough ideas that can transform the way food is produced and consumed.

Southie Autonomy

Seed Round in 2018
Southie Autonomy develops a robot software that enables any industrial robot to be re-purposed and re-deployed by any person even without robotics expertise or even computer skills. It aims to help businesses recoup ROI faster by lowering time, cost, and skill barriers, in applications like kitting, palletizing, and simple assembly. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bleximo

Seed Round in 2018
Bleximo Corp. specializes in the development of quantum accelerators and quantum processors, which enhance conventional computing capabilities by addressing complex problems that traditional digital computers struggle to solve. Founded in 2017 and based in Walnut Creek, California, the company focuses on delivering solutions for simulating molecular structures and chemical reactions. By leveraging quantum physics, Bleximo aims to optimize drug discovery and design within the pharmaceutical industry, providing more accurate and efficient data analysis and numerical modeling. This innovative approach enables businesses to tackle high-value challenges economically, giving them a competitive edge in their respective fields.

Sepion Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Sepion is an advanced membrane company offering a platform suite of highly-tunable nanoscale membranes for multiple industrial markets.

Vericool

Seed Round in 2018
Vericool is a provider of cold chain packaging services intended to manufacture compostable coolers for sustainable shipment, storage and delivery. The company's services offer a line of packaging products that include customized, compostable, recyclable, sustainable and eco-friendly shipment boxes that have inbuilt temperature sensors for long-time storage, enabling logistics and warehouse operators to improve cold chain shipping of non-durable goods without depending on external freezers.

Caper

Seed Round in 2018
Caper is a company that develops an AI-powered shopping cart aimed at enhancing the grocery shopping experience. By integrating technologies such as image recognition and sensor fusion, Caper's smart cart allows shoppers to conveniently add items to their cart and self-checkout without the need for cashiers. This plug-and-play system captures images of items and scans barcodes, facilitating an automated checkout process. Caper's innovative approach seeks to transform physical retail by enabling existing grocery stores to adopt a kiosk-less shopping experience, thereby streamlining operations and improving customer satisfaction.

Quartz Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Quartz identifies, tracks, and predicts everything that moves on a construction site, making construction measurably safer and gives managers never-before-collected insights into how work is accomplished on their sites. Their cameras and sensors collect information, and their computer vision and advanced analytics help the site track any process or procedures in real time.

VEERUM

Seed Round in 2018
VEERUM Inc. is an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company based in Calgary, Canada, that specializes in digital technology for asset ownership. Founded in 2014, the company has developed an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to predict and resolve project issues, thereby optimizing asset management throughout the lifecycle of design, fabrication, and construction. VEERUM's Asset Visualization Platform allows stakeholders to access real-time data and insights through a secure cloud-based solution, presenting aggregated asset information within a 3D model for enhanced transparency and audit history. By leveraging sensor technology to create digital replicas of physical projects, VEERUM aids clients in accelerating their transition to digital asset ownership, ultimately supporting the development and maintenance of critical infrastructure.

ALICE Technologies

Convertible Note in 2018
ALICE empowers construction engineering and management professionals with modern AI and Optimization techniques. Its software automatically produces detailed schedules and resource allocations, which accurately estimate the cost and time frame for a project. Users understand the construction process through an interactive visualization, and can quickly tweak or modify a schedule to reflect the shifting realities of the construction cycle. It is born out of research at Stanford by a collaborative effort between experienced construction managers, software engineers, and computational methods specialists. ALICE enhances construction planning and scheduling abilities to help keep crews flowing on any size project. It works directly with 3D BIM and using a simple rule-based system, it explores millions of different schedule sequences and gives teams the power to answer “What If?” scenarios and completely reschedule in just minutes. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Sense Photonics

Seed Round in 2017
Sense Photonics, Inc. develops advanced light detection and ranging (LiDAR) solutions for various applications, including autonomous vehicles, drones, and industrial automation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, the company specializes in producing LiDAR sensors that utilize lasers to generate 3D maps of environments in diverse conditions, such as day or night and across different weather scenarios. With a focus on reliable, modular, and configurable 3D sensing, Sense Photonics has established a strong technological foundation, backed by over 200 patents. Their solid-state sensors, which contain no moving parts, are designed to meet the stringent performance, reliability, and cost requirements essential for automotive and industrial sectors.

Visolis

Convertible Note in 2017
Visolis, a bioengineering company, develops carbon-negative and sustainable chemicals. Its systems approach integrates innovations in synthetic biology, chemical catalysis, and process scale-up to enable new bio-based manufacturing platforms. Visolis' bio-based process helps in achieving true carbon negative chemical synthesis. It began operation in 2012, with its headquarters in Berkeley in California.

AgriData

Seed Round in 2017
AgriData, Inc. specializes in digital yield forecasting solutions tailored for orchards and vineyards. The company employs machine learning and computer vision to assess crucial factors such as fruit quantity, density, and size, which aids farmers in optimizing their operations. Additionally, AgriData's technology evaluates various attributes, including maturity, defects, diseases, and pests, providing comprehensive insights for effective farm management. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, AgriData is dedicated to enhancing agricultural productivity through advanced data-driven approaches.

Dishcraft Robotics

Seed Round in 2016
Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. develops and manufactures robots for commercial kitchens. The company through its system cleans each dish individually using a rotating scrubber head and inspects each dish in a fraction of a second for remaining food residue using computer vision. Its solution Dishcraft Daily provides clean-dish dishwashing services. It serves corporate kitchens and restaurants. Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. was formerly known as Bistro Technologies, Inc. and changed its name to Dishcraft Robotics, Inc. in March 2016. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Carlos, California.

Sales Bootcamp

Seed Round in 2015
Sales Bootcamp is a training organization focused on developing and placing sales development representatives and interns. Founded in 2015, it offers an immersive, three-month program that equips students with practical sales experience and essential skills, including knowledge of CRM tools and sales methodologies. The organization aims to address the challenge many tech companies face in finding qualified entry-level candidates by bridging the gap between training and employment. By providing part-time workshops and a supportive ecosystem, Sales Bootcamp fosters professional growth for individuals from diverse backgrounds, ensuring that all students have access to quality training and job opportunities. The company is dedicated to increasing diversity in the tech industry and allocates a portion of its enrollment for women and underrepresented minorities, creating a more inclusive workforce.

Lioness

Angel Round in 2015
Lioness is a company focused on enhancing women's sexual health by developing a vibrator that helps users understand and take control of their bodies. The device is paired with an app designed to visualize bodily responses and facilitate inquiries within a supportive community. By employing advanced biometric sensing and statistical methods, Lioness enables users to characterize their sexual experiences, including arousal patterns and optimal times for sexual activity. The product is designed with a strong emphasis on female-centric principles, utilizing materials similar to those found in medical devices and ergonomics that align with how women naturally hold vibrators. Lioness aims to destigmatize discussions surrounding female sexuality and foster a more open dialogue about women's health.

IOTAS

Seed Round in 2015
IOTAS, INC. provides home automation services for apartment residents in Portland, Oregon. It installs and sets up smart outlets, hubs, smart switches, smart plugs, open/close sensors, and motion sensors in apartments. The company also provides home automation platform that integrates pre-installed hardware with software to interact with homes; and enables residents to manually control and automate lights and devices based on a schedule or various triggers. IOTAS, INC. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
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