Creator Fund
Pre-seed VC backing scientific and PhD founders from European university labs before they have a deck.
VC
Pre-seed / Seed
📍 London, UK
Founded 2019
AUM
Not Disclosed
Strategic / Balance-Sheet
PRIVATE
Creator Fund is a London pre-seed venture firm founded in 2019 by Jamie Macfarlane that finds and backs Europe's scientific founders before they have a pitch deck. It invests up to EUR 1 million as a first cheque, typically into teams where a founder is a PhD, student, professor or recent graduate, focusing on AI, deep tech and biotech. It sources through a student investor team across 30 universities in 10 countries. Its first pan-European institutional fund closed at EUR 48.6 million ($56 million), led by KfW Capital with EIFO second and 71 LPs from 21 countries; the firm has backed 62 companies since 2019.
Firm Profile
Active Fund
Creator Fund (first pan-European fund) ($56M) · 2026
Notable Partners
Jamie MacfarlaneAlexandra Ntemourtsidou
Investment Focus
Sectors
AI · Deep Tech · BioTech · Robotics · Advanced Materials · Computing Infrastructure
VCEuropeanSeedDeep TechUniversity Spinouts
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