UK-Based Creator Fund Closes €48.6 Million Fund to Back Europe’s Scientific Founders Before Pitch Deck Stage

This Fund Is Investing In Researchers Before They Even Start A Company

London-based Creator Fund has closed a $56 million fund with a deliberately specific mandate: European PhD founders, reached inside university labs before they have a pitch deck, a co-founder or even a company name. The fund will back researchers across 30 universities in ten European countries, writing first cheques of between £100,000 and £700,000 into scientific founders working in AI, biotech, robotics, advanced materials and physics. The ti…

Creator Fund closes £42m fund to back Europe's scientists

UK-based Creator Fund, the pre-seed VC that finds and backs Europe’s scientific founders before they have a pitch deck, has closed its first European fund at $56m (£42m).  Creator Fund’s Scientific Founder programme is the engine behind its European deal flow. Each year, 40 venture fellows are selected and embedded across 30 universities in 10 countries. They are trained to identify scientific researchers with the potential to build, and to supp…

UK-based Creator Fund closes €48.6 million fund to back Europe’s scientific founders before pitch deck stage

Creator Fund, a Kensington-based pre-Seed VC that finds and backs Europe’s scientific founders before they have a pitch deck, has closed its first European fund at €48.8 million ($56 million).  The firm also announced that KfW Capital (a subsidiary of KfW, Germany’s state-owned promotional bank, which operates on behalf of the federal government and the states) has joined the final close as the fund’s largest investor. Investment Fund of Denmark…

The man who brought Silicon Valley's student VC model to Europe just raised $56M, backed by the German and Danish governments

Creator Fund has closed a $56 million fund, the largest student-backed VC fund in the world, to back European PhD founders before they have a pitch deck, a product, or even a company name. KfW Capital, the investment arm of Germany’s state-owned promotional bank, joins as the fund’s largest investor, alongside the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark and 69 other LPs from 21 countries. Two Creator Fund portfolio companies have surpassed $100 mi…

UK-based Creator Fund closes a $56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

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