Weaving Worlds
Creators Fund is a venture studio that invests in artists and bulids expanded worlds through arts technologies.
ABOUT
We partner with artists, investors, and creative communities to develop new ventures that blend together transmedia stories, immersive environments, cross-platform content, generative creation, decentralized ownership, and more.
Our aim is to foster new forms of artistic expression and commercial success—delivering transformational experiences, lasting cultural impact, and essential systems change, weaving new futures worth living.
APPROACH
Our Three-Step Venture Process:
Explore – We identify market opportunities through cultural, technological, and behavioral research, focusing on ideas with scaling potential.
Experiment – We validate concepts through rapid prototyping and market testing, building minimum viable products with clear paths to revenue.
Expand– We launch ventures with full operational support, secure investment capital, and implement go-to-market strategies for maximum growth.
SERVICES
Creators Fund works with artists, creative enterprises, and cultural institutions to transform their creative ideas into thriving ventures.
For Artists & Institutions:
Worldbuilding-as-a-Service
We transform creative concepts into commercial ventures with multiple revenue streams. This includes technical development, IP strategy, and cross-platform distribution frameworks.
Venture Building Support
We provide hands-on operational support across design, branding and brand partnerships, marketing, legal, talent acquisition, PR and financial management—everything needed to scale your creative project into a sustainable business.
CASE STUDIES
Genesis 3.0 - The Building Blocks of Life
How can we leverage arts and culture to drive and accelerate economic transformation? Can worldbuilding principles create compelling climate narratives that can tackle global challenges and inspire positive societal change? Is Genesis 3.0 the breakthrough in narrative design and worldbuilding we've been seeking?
TEAM
Co-Founder, General Partner
Susanna began her career in high fashion and has since evolved into a seasoned serial entrepreneur, investor, and strategic advisor. Over the past decade, she has collaborated with influential agents of change, building a network focused on systemic transformation. Believing in the power of art and culture to create a new global narrative, Susanna leverages technological innovations to tackle critical environmental and social issues. By transforming traditional art world dynamics through elastic IP models and worldbuilding methodologies, Susanna is architecting a new creative economy where artists retain greater ownership of their work while accessing multiple revenue streams across physical and digital realms.
Susanna Barla
Advisor
Alexandre is a venture strategist specializing in transformative investment models at the intersection of technology and impact. As co-founder of Future Positive Capital, he deployed $75M into companies using advanced technologies to address global challenges like climate change and health. His experience incubating products at the nexus of science and design for ventures that raised over $40M provides Creators Fund with crucial financial expertise. At Parable, his work decoding collective time allocation patterns informs the fund's approach to value creation in artistic ventures. Alexandre's focus on consciousness and human potential aligns perfectly with Genesis 3.0's mission to develop sustainable creative economies.
Alexandre Terrien
Advisor
Andrea brings 25 years of expertise connecting science, art and public engagement as chairman of Woven Foundation for Creative Climate Communication. His leadership of innovative projects across museums, government organizations and universities in Europe, USA, South Africa and Brazil provides Creators Fund with invaluable institutional partnership insights. As board member of Deutsches Museum and scientific advisor for Universcience Paris, he offers strategic guidance on cultural institution engagement. His membership in the World Economic Forum's Expert Network and experience as an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium in San Francisco supports the fund's mission to transform artistic production into sustainable investment opportunities.
Andrea Bandelli
Design Lead
Antti co-founded Tsto in 2010, developing signature approaches to visual communication that bridge artistic vision with technical innovation. His expertise in crafting visual identities, publications, websites, motion graphics, and typography provides Creators Fund with essential design intelligence for worldbuilding initiatives. With meticulous attention to detail and unwavering commitment to innovation, Antti translates complex artistic concepts into cohesive visual systems that function across physical and digital realms. His collaborative approach with professionals across disciplines embodies the cross-pollination central to Genesis’ ecosystem development and elastic IP strategy.
Antti Uotila
Advisor
Christiane brings unparalleled digital art expertise as Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum and Professor at The New School. Her award-winning publications on digital art and new media, including seminal works published by Thames and Hudson and Blackwell-Wiley, provide theoretical foundation for Creators Fund's investment approach. Her curatorial experience with landmark exhibitions like "Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art" and oversight of Whitney's artport directly informs the fund's strategy for institutional partnerships. Christiane's deep understanding of how digital art functions within traditional institutions makes her invaluable for building bridges between emerging technologies and established cultural frameworks.
Christiane Paul
Advisor
Daniel applies his expertise as experiential designer and educator to develop frameworks connecting art, technology and commerce. As Course Leader at London College of Fashion (UAL), he deploys fashion communication to address pressing global challenges, directly informing Genesis 3.0's fashion and merchandise initiatives. His production of digital and exhibition experiences for organizations including British Museum, Serpentine Galleries, Google and Samsung provides practical insights for the fund's physical-digital integration strategy. Daniel's academic research on uncertainty, contingency and complexity in artistic production provides theoretical grounding for Creators Fund's elastic IP model and multi-revenue approach to cultural investment.
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Daniel Felstead
Advisor
Jonathon is an experimental philosopher and artist acclaimed as a "poet of ideas" by The New Yorker and a "multimedia philosopher-prophet" by The Atlantic. His conceptually-driven transdisciplinary projects explore societal transformation through methods adapted from both sciences and humanities. Working across institutional boundaries as a research associate at University of Arizona's College of Fine Arts, fellow at the Berggruen Institute, and artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute, he brings unique perspective to Creators Fund's worldbuilding initiatives. Jonathon has exhibited at prestigious institutions from LACMA to CERN, and his work co-directing the Consortium for Climate-Adapted Architectural Heritage at Fraunhofer Institute directly informs Genesis 3.0's approach to nature-inspired cultural innovation. His six published books and Forbes art column demonstrate his ability to translate complex concepts into accessible narratives.
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Jonathon Keats
Design Lead
Matti co-founded Tsto in 2010, establishing a distinctive visual language that merges technological precision with artistic expression. His eye for intricate detail and visual storytelling enables Creators Fund to effectively communicate complex concepts across multiple platforms and media formats. His proficiency in crafting dynamic websites, motion graphics, and expressive typography directly supports the fund's worldbuilding initiatives that span physical and digital realms. Matti's ability to push creative boundaries while fostering genuine collaboration is essential for translating artistic visions into marketable intellectual property with multiple revenue streams across the Genesis ecosystem.
Matti Kunttu
Advisor
Ruth brings three decades of experience as a narrative architect and futurist, specializing in translating abstract concepts into compelling storytelling frameworks. Through her company Future Story Lab, she develops sustainable socio-economic products with accessibility and inclusiveness at their core, providing Creators Fund with a crucial perspective on inclusive value creation. Her lifelong engagement with art as a change agent and understanding of language as "our most powerful technology" directly informs the fund's approach to worldbuilding and IP development. Ruth's poetry collection 'Fears to Feathers' (2023) exemplifies her ability to transform complex ideas into emotionally resonant experiences that drive cultural impact.