Creator Fund is a venture capital firm investing in startups on the frontier of what's possible. We back founders building deep technology businesses out of university innovation. We focus on PhD and academic founders and have teams on-the-ground across 28 university campuses. Our portfolio includes founders creating mutation-proof vaccines, electronic skin for robots, and allowing the human mind to control machines. We invest pre-seed and seed and work closely with our companies to scale and raise follow on rounds. CF has been backed by many leading funds in Europe and the US.

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"The biggest mistake that university investors can make is to focus on the technology and then bring in an external management team. We back massively motivated PhD founder teams.” Forbes explains the Creator Fund model in this excellent piece exploring what we have built over the past 3 years: 

https://lnkd.in/eMK58NWT

We are proud to join Helical's first round 🚀 . Helical brings together engineers and PhDs from Imperial College London to build foundational AI models for the pharmaceutical industry. They bridge advances in Biotech and Large Language Models to train next generation models on DNA and RNA data to power drug discovery. Congratulations to Rick Schneider and Maxime Allard - and excited to do our first Luxembourg-based deal 🇱🇺 . 

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Over the last year and a half, we have scaled our PhD teams to universities across Europe. Recruiting students in the labs pioneering the most exciting research. And have invested in companies based in 🇳🇴  🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇫🇷 🇮🇱 . PhDs across Europe are uniquely positioned to build this continent's next generation of great deep technology business. Proud to have backed Lazy Dynamics, Fairgen, QuantumDiamonds, Myria Biosciences AG, Turing Biosystems, Enlightra, and Miphic (Techstars '24). 


Ilaria Incaviglia Leon Gibson Céline Caraffa Alexandra Ntemourtsidou Dávid Rozenberszki Meike Bleeksma Katariina Kordemets Dmitrii Usynin Yann Bouquet Erkin Najafli Massimiliano Casata Michał Bortkiewicz Callum Hill

Malted AI announces their £6 million seed round led by Hoxton Ventures. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🚀  The Edinburgh-based team are tackling the ballooning costs of large language models by building smaller task-specific models. We first backed Iain Mackie, Carlos G., and Federico Rossetto at pre-seed when they were finishing their PhDs at University of Glasgow. And we are very proud to invest again at the seed round.

As the world focuses on ever bigger general models like ChatGPT, Malted AI believes most businesses actually need small task-specific models that can perform at near 100% accuracy. Malted is based on "distillation" (the focus of the team's AI PhDs) where the output of large models trains smaller models to do one task exceptionally well, at a fraction of the cost. Huge congrats to the team! 

https://lnkd.in/ee2ZheE5

We first met Samuel Cohen when he was finishing his PhD at UCL and were blown away by how he was solving advanced mathematics challenges to pioneer in the synthetic data field. We invested in Fairgen pre-seed round impressed also by the commercial vision being set by co-founders Michael Cohen and Benny Schnaider. 

Fast forward two years, and Fairgen has one of the most sophisticated solutions for modelling consumer populations and understanding what sub-groups think, believe, and want to buy. Important for brands, corporations, and political causes. Huge congratulations to the team as they announce their seed round! Alexandra Ntemourtsidou

https://lnkd.in/epnvEHkA

Great piece in today's The Times from Brent Hoberman about how the 🇬🇧  is becoming a global leader in AI & Deep Tech. Brent also talks about Creator Fund and the role of 🇬🇧 universities for fostering this innovation: 

https://lnkd.in/eQxD_Qcn 

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Creator Fund is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in scientific founders who have mastered their fields and are now turning to invention.

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