Co-Founder · Managing Partner
Maya Okonkwo
Formerly COO, Lumio Health (acquired 2010).
Leads healthcare and care-economy investments; first check on Mosaic Health (2021).
The bench behind the wire transfer.
Twenty-three investment professionals. Forty operating partners. One thesis: that capital alone doesn’t build category-defining companies — operators do. This is the team you’ll actually work with.
19
Median business days from intro call to term sheet — tracked across 11,400+ founder conversations in 2024.
Investment Partners · Fund III
Six partners. Decisions by consensus, accountability by name.
Every term sheet leaving Creative Capitalism carries a partner’s signature and that partner’s cell number. Below: the six investors who lead deals for Fund III, the businesses they came from, and the corner of the thesis they own.
Co-Founder · Managing Partner
Daniel Reyes
Formerly VP Operations, Getaway Logistics.
Leads climate and supply-chain infrastructure; first check on Helio Logistics (2019).
Partner · Fund III
Priya Anand
Formerly Director of Product, Square (2014–2019).
Leads vertical fintech, embedded payments, and the firm’s AI-infrastructure thesis.
Partner · Fund III
Marcus Webb
Formerly Co-Founder & CEO, Fieldwise (acquired 2018).
Leads marketplace and labor-economy investments across North America and Europe.
Partner · Fund III
Ade Olusola
Formerly Head of Strategy, Andela (2017–2022).
Leads developer tools, frontier-tech, and Africa-headquartered growth rounds.
Partner · Fund III
Hana Lindqvist
Formerly GM EMEA, Spotify (2013–2020).
Leads consumer, brand, and European operations out of the London office.
Operating Partners · 40-Person Network
Forty operators, on retainer. No hourly billing, no warm-intro fees, no “let me check with my EA.”
Every portfolio company is paired with an operating partner whose day job matches the problem the company is solving that quarter. Below: the eight practice areas covered by the network, with head-counts and representative members — the rest of the directory is reviewed on diligence calls.
07
Practice Area
Go-to-Market Operators
7 operators covering PLG, enterprise sales motions, channel partnerships, and post-PMF pricing. Members include two former CROs of public SaaS companies and one ex-Slack head of enterprise.
05
Practice Area
Regulatory & Policy
5 operators covering FDA, financial-services licensing, health-data privacy, and AI governance. Includes a former SEC commissioner and two ex-CMS senior advisors.
06
Practice Area
Finance & Capital Formation
6 operators covering CFO transitions, treasury management, debt facilities, and follow-on capital. Members include three public-company CFOs and a former Blackstone principal.
04
Practice Area
Founder & Executive Talent
4 operators, plus the firm’s in-house Talent Partners team, have placed 240+ executives across the portfolio. Search is bundled at no incremental cost to founders.
04
Practice Area
Engineering & Technical Operators
4 operators covering infra scaling, security audits, ML platform decisions, and technical due diligence. Includes two former unicorn CTOs and an ex-Stripe staff engineer.
06
Practice Area
Brand, Design & Communications
6 operators covering narrative, identity, executive comms, and crisis response. Members include a former editorial director of a major publisher and three founding CMOs.
04
Practice Area
International Expansion
4 operators covering entity setup, localization, hiring across jurisdictions, and tax structuring in EMEA, APAC, and Latin America.
04
Practice Area
Impact Measurement & Reporting
4 operators supporting portfolio companies on B Corp certifications, GAAP-for-Sustainability frameworks, and LP-facing impact reporting.
Total Network 40 operating partners. 2 former unicorn founders. 3 public-company CFOs. 1 former SEC commissioner. All available on diligence calls and to active portfolio companies.
Operating Philosophy
“We’re not trying to be the most patient capital on your cap table, or the most aggressive — we’re trying to be the most useful. The test isn’t whether we sent the wire. It’s whether, two years in, you’d pick up the phone when we call about the next round.”
By the Numbers · 2024 Performance
The operating network, measured.
240+
Executive placements
C-suite, VP, and board-level placements across the portfolio since 2016 — staffed by the in-house Talent Partners team and bundled at no incremental cost to founders.
19days
Intro → term sheet
Median time from first founder conversation to issued term sheet in 2024. Three times faster than the Series A industry median (59 business days per PitchBook).
$28M
Follow-on reserve
Per-fund reserve pool earmarked for follow-on participation. Average check size of $6.4M with material pro-rata through Series D — we don’t disappear at the cap-table reshuffle.
11,400/yr
Intros reviewed
Founder intro calls reviewed in 2024 alone; 3.1% conversion to investment. The funnel is wide open, the bar is high — and the answer is fast either way.
Pitch Your Company
Bring us the company you’re building. We’ll bring a partner, a talent team, and a 19-day answer.
Fund III is $210M and actively deploying. We invest $2M–$15M in mission-driven, high-growth companies at Series A through C. Founders get a real partner on the call — not a screener, not an SDR.