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Creative Fabrica
Digital assets marketplace with AI creation tools.
About Creative Fabrica
Creative Fabrica operates as a digital marketplace for crafters, designers, and hobbyists, offering a subscription-based model for a vast library of creative assets. Founded in Amsterdam in 2016 by Roelant Dieben, Anca Stefan, and Roemie Hillenaar, the company emerged from the founders' own experience of running a design studio and facing budgetary constraints when purchasing design templates. Hillenaar currently serves as the CEO.
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The company's business model is centered on its 'All Access' subscription, which provides users with unlimited downloads from a library of over 7.5 million assets, including fonts, graphics, embroidery patterns, and 3D printing files. This subscription model accounts for the majority of the company's revenue and is designed to serve high-volume users. In addition to subscriptions, Creative Fabrica allows for one-off purchases, with the platform taking a commission on each sale. The platform primarily serves non-professional crafters and those who have turned their hobby into a side business, with a significant user base of Millennials and Gen Z. Approximately 65% of its revenue originates from the United States.
A key component of Creative Fabrica's offering is its suite of generative AI tools, branded as CF Spark. Launched in late 2022, CF Spark allows users to generate images, patterns, coloring pages, and sketches from text prompts. This toolset is integrated into the marketplace, allowing creators not only to generate unique designs but also to list them for sale on the platform, supported by clear commercial licensing. The AI tools are tailored for the platform's core audience of crafters and print-on-demand (POD) sellers.
Creative Fabrica has seen significant growth, backed by substantial venture capital funding. The company secured a Seed round in 2019, a $7 million Series A in 2021, and a $61 million Series B round in January 2023, bringing its total funding to over $68 million. This capital is being used to expand its AI toolset, grow its team, and explore potential acquisitions.
At a glance
- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Employees
- 352
- Open positions
- 11
- Dealroom signal
- 62.2/100
- Industry
- Media
- Sub-industry
- Content production
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces, Libraries, Core AI, Generative AI, genAI Applications, Woman Founder
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Business model
- Marketplace & ecommerce
- Client focus
- b2b, b2c
- Investment activity
- 1 company, latest Oct 2023
- Capital deployed
- $1.1M
- Preferred round
- SEED
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEBTDebt | Jan 2023 | $12M | — | Undisclosed | ↗ |
| SERIES BOther financing | Jan 2023 | $49M | $195M | Peak · LionTree Partners · Felix Capital · TriplePoint Capital | ↗ |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Creative Fabrica is 6.3M monthly website visits, down 37% over the last three months. Creative Fabrica's team declined 8.1% over the past year.
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Seed1 investor entered at this stage
Series A5 investors entered at this stage
Felix Capital
FJ Labs
AlvenLionTree Partners
TriplePoint Capital
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