For VCs and family offices
Meet founders while they’re still building.
Creatives Takeover is where early founders test and build their ideas. Sponsor a cohort in your thesis area, or create an investor account and get matched with teams whose progress you can read.
Early teams are hard to read
At pre-seed, most of what you see is the pitch. What a team has actually tested is much harder to find.
Polish isn’t progress
Early decks look alike. Whether a team has spoken to buyers or tested demand rarely shows on a slide.
Good teams are found late
By the time a strong team is visible to everyone, its round is already crowded.
Every first call starts from zero
The first meeting goes on rebuilding what the team has already done, instead of what comes next.
Sponsor a cohort, or find teams on your own
Sponsored cohort
Fund a cohort under your brand, by thesis area, region or university. Founders use the platform free, and you follow the teams that choose to share their progress with you.
Investor account
Set the sectors and stages you invest in and get matched with founders who opted in to be visible to investors.
Progress you can read
A team’s customer definition, demand test, validation decision and first customers are recorded as they happen, dated and in the founder’s own words.
What you can see
One team’s progress, dated
An example with a fictional team. You only see founders who chose to share their progress with investors.
Shared with investors by the founder
Team Halcyon · Route planning for small fleets
3 Mar · Identity
Target customer defined: operations leads at 20–100 person logistics firms.
21 Mar · Prototyping
Demand page published. 214 visits, 31 sign-ups.
12 Apr · Validation
Decision: build. Based on 9 buyer interviews and 1 documented objection.
8 May · Launch
Working on a repeatable acquisition channel.
How a sponsored cohort works
Your focus, our workspace
Choose the focus
A thesis area, a region or a university you want to be close to. We agree the size and length together.
The cohort opens under your brand
Founders join free of charge and work through the same stages and tools as every team on the platform.
Follow the teams that execute
See the progress of the founders who opted in, and reach out when the timing is right for both sides.
Founders decide what you see.
Visibility is opt-in, founder by founder. No one is shared with you without their consent, and sponsoring a cohort doesn’t commit you, or the founders, to an investment.
Questions
Do I need to sponsor a cohort to use the platform?
No. You can create an investor account on your own and get matched with founders who opted in. Sponsoring is for funds and family offices that want a cohort in their focus area.
What does a sponsored cohort cost?
It depends on the size and length of the cohort. Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll send a proposal.
Which founders will I see?
Only founders who chose to be visible to investors, matched on the sectors and stages you set.
Does sponsoring mean investing in the teams?
No. Sponsoring pays for the founders’ cohort. Whether you invest later is between you and each team.
Talk to us about a sponsored cohort
Tell us about your fund and the founders you want to be close to. We’ll reply with how a cohort could work.