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
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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 13.06.2023 | Peanut Rob... | peanutrobotics.com | - | United Sta... |
| 07.04.2023 | Kolibri | kolibrilab.com | - | Metropolit... |
| 03.02.2023 | 3E Nano In... | 3enano.com | $4M | Canada, On... |
| 03.02.2023 | Relectrify | relectrify.com | - | Australia,... |
| 30.01.2023 | veeve | veeve.io | - | United Sta... |
| 30.01.2023 | Synvivia | synvivia.com | - | Australia,... |
| 30.01.2023 | OncoPrecis... | oncoprecision.bio | $6.85M | Argentina,... |
| 12.07.2022 | Terra CO2 ... | terraco2.com | $252.5M | United Sta... |
| 12.07.2022 | FORT Robot... | fortrobotics.com | $56.9M | United Sta... |
| 09.11.2021 | Rhaeos | rhaeos.com | $12.7M | United Sta... |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.12.2019 | Creative Conversations: Opportunities in Logistics & Warehousing | Joining Kunal, James Wang (General Partner) discusses the internship and together they dig into the vast, complicated space of dark warehouses, pick-and-place robots, delivery robots—and the how demands from e-commerce and urbanization are ... |
| 19.12.2019 | Creative Conversations: Opportunities in Medical Diagnostics | Why is the health care system so poorly set up to handle chronic disease? What interesting technologies are on the horizon—specifically in medical diagnostics—that might be able to change this and be promising venture investments? James Wan... |
| 09.12.2019 | Creative Conversation: Systematic Investment in Venture Capital | What is systematic investment in venture capital? Why does Creative Ventures keep talking about it? And what does it actually add to a venture investor? James Wang, General Partner at Creative Ventures, talks through these questions and mor... |
Mentions in press and media 30
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.08.2025 | FORT Robotics Fuels Future of AI Safety with $18.9 Million Capital Injection | FORT Robotics just closed an additional $18.9 million in Series B funding, lifting its total capital to $60.5 million. This significant investment, led by Tiger Global, propels the company's mission: delivering robust safety and security so... |
| 08.08.2025 | FORT Robotics: $18.9 Million Series B Raised For Building Intelligent Machines | FORT Robotics, a company specializing in safety and security solutions for intelligent machines, announced the close of an additional $18.9 million in its Series B funding round. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from ne... |
| 07.08.2025 | FORT Robotics Raises Additional $18.9M in Series B Funding | FORT Robotics, a Philadelphia, PA-based provider of a safety and security solutions for intelligent machines, raised additional $18.9M in Series B funding. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Prime Movers Lab, Mark Cu... |
| 13.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences Revolutionizes Protein Synthesis with AI Technology | Tierra Biosciences, a California-based startup, has secured an $11.4 million Series A funding round to expand its innovative platform for custom protein synthesis. Using AI-guided cell-free technology, Tierra is disrupting traditional prote... |
| 12.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences raises $11.4m series A to expand designer protein-to-order platform | Tierra Biosciences—a California-based startup developing AI-guided cell-free technology to enable high-throughput custom protein synthesis—has closed an $11.4m Series A round led by Material Impact. The round, which adds to the firm’s $6 mi... |
| 13.12.2023 | Choosing the right deep tech fund manager: 4 essential questions for investors and founders | Champ Suthipongchai Contributor Share on X Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures, a method-driven deep tech VC firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, rising h... |
| 13.10.2023 | UH to deliver on tech to DOD, 2 Houston startups raise funding, and more trending news from the week | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included a major military contract for UH, two startups with fundi... |
| 10.10.2023 | Houston Innovation Awards names longtime Rice leader as 2023 Trailblazer | In less than a month, all of Houston's innovation community's movers and shakers will gather to celebrate the Houston Innovation Awards, and the night's first honoree has officially been named. Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alli... |
| 06.10.2023 | Texas burger spot takes bite out of innovative, eco-friendly initiative | Hearty Austin-based chain Hopdoddy Burger Bar has unveiled a new lineup of regenerative burgers that are supposed to be better for the planet and the consumer. The term "regenerative burger" could cause a few head-scratches: Some ... |
| 29.09.2023 | Houston-area schools make best universities list, tech nonprofit expands, and more trending news | Editor's note:Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included Houston schools scoring big on a recent ranking, a tech nonpr... |
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