Weaving Worlds
Creators Fund is a venture studio that invests in artists and builds 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
As a venture studio, we take a hands-on approach to venturing, navigating the complexities of artistic creation and venture building. Our process consists of three key elements:
Explore:
Uncover Hidden Potentials
We utilize systems thinking and critical research to make sense of human behavior, cultural shifts, technological evolutions, and socio-environmental issues, to find potential for scalable ventures.
Experiment:
Accelerate to World/Market Fit
We test and validate the ideas and opportunities with experiments. This phase crafts the foundations of successful ventures: minimum lovable offerings, models, and worlds ready for expansion.
Expand:
Raise Capital and Build the World
We prepare ventures for market launch. This involves fine-tuning, securing additional investment, and enhancing marketing, design, and business development to help ventures reach their full potential.
SERVICES
Creators Fund works with artists, creative enterprises, and cultural institutions to transform their creative ideas into thriving ventures.
Worldbuilding-as-a-Service
Transform your ideas into expansive, immersive worlds as startups, integrating multi-revenue stream business models into your projects. Our approach ensures you seize creative and commercial opportunities, expand intellectual property, deepen artistic narratives, and get long-term benefits.
Venture Development
Elevate your creative projects with our creative venturing services. We provide advanced design, branding, integrated marketing & communications, legal, recruiting, and financial assistance. Our goal is to equip you with essential resources and expertise to propel your creative ventures forward.
AI Creative Catalyst
Enhance your artistic output and productivity with our AI catalyst services. We help you integrate generative AI into your creative pipeline, providing coding, pipeline development, and AI expertise that keep you at the forefront of creativity and efficiency.
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
FOUNDING 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. She pioneers cultural and economic models at the intersection of art, science, and emerging technologies, driving sustainable change and using creative critical thinking to solve global challenges.
Susanna Barla
FOUNDING PARTNER
Ville is a strategist with extensive experience across art, culture, and technology. For the past decade, he has led a strategy consultancy focused on systems change within the cultural and creative fields. Previously, Ville directed strategy, foresight, and innovation projects in the tech sector in New York and Helsinki, working with business, design, and brand teams across five continents. His expertise includes curating exhibitions, authoring books on strategic design, and engaging in Web3 world-building. Ville holds an MA in Psychology and Media Studies and was a PhD candidate at the Media Lab at Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design, and Architecture.
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Ville Tikka
CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY FACILITATOR
Apolinário is a machine learning engineer and creative technologist. With 15 years of software engineering expertise and as one of the pioneers in generative machine learning since 2021, he builds tools and interactive installations. Apolinário is currently the Head of Machine Learning for Art and Creativity at Hugging Face, where he stays at the cutting edge of AI research, bridging technology and art to support artists and creatives.
Apolinário Passos
DESIGN LEAD
Matti Kunttu is a founding member of the renowned Helsinki based graphic design studio Tsto. Tsto is known for it’s vibrant visual identities, publications, websites, motion graphics, and typography. Their clients mostly operate on the fields of art and design.
Matti Kunttu
DESIGN LEAD
Antti Uotila is a founding member of the renowned Helsinki based graphic design studio Tsto. Tsto is known for it’s vibrant visual identities, publications, websites, motion graphics, and typography. Their clients mostly operate on the fields of art and design.
Antti Uotila
ADVISORS (GENESIS)
CURATORIAL ADVISOR
Christiane Paul is Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation's 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art. Her books are A Companion to Digital Art (2016); Digital Art (2003, 2008, 2015, 2023); Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (2011); and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (2008). At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions Refigured (2023), Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018 (2018/19), Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011) and Profiling (2007), and is responsible for artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art. Other curatorial work includes Chain Reaction (feralfile.com, 2023), DiMoDA 4.0 Dis/Location (traveling show, 2021- ), The Question of Intelligence (Kellen Gallery, The New School, 2020), and What Lies Beneath (Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, 2015).
Christiane Paul
CULTURAL STRATEGY ADVISOR
Andrea Bandelli is chairman and managing director of Woven Foundation for Creative Climate Communication and an international consultant and advisor in the field of science communication and public engagement with science. In his career spanning over 25 years he has worked for several public and private organizations, including science museums, government organizations and universities across Europe, USA, South Africa and Brazil, leading some of the most innovative projects on science, art, democracy and public participation. He is a member of the board of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, of the scientific board of Universcience in Paris, and of the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum. He has been an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and has published 2 books and several academic and popular articles on public engagement with science and technology.
Andrea Bandelli
VENTURE ADVISOR
Alex is a seasoned entrepreneur and co-founder of Parable. Driven by the belief that time is our most precious resource, Parable decodes and visualizes collective time to focus on what matters most. Prior to Parable, Alex co-founded Future Positive Capital, a venture capital firm that invested $75M in companies using advanced technologies to tackle global challenges like climate change and health. He began his career incubating products at the intersection of science and design for companies that subsequently raised over $40M. Alex is a deep listener, a minimalist focused on solutions, and passionate about consciousness, human potential, and growth.
Alexandre Terrien
WORLDBUILDING ADVISOR
Dr. Daniel Felstead is an academic and content producer whose practice focuses on the relationship between fashion, technology, and culture. He is the course leader of MA Fashion Media & Communication at the London College of Fashion (UAL). Daniel has spoken and presented work internationally including Architectural Association, Berlin Critics Week, Fundació Foto Colectania, Global Art Forum, ICA, PAF, RCA, Shedhalle, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and V&A. His PhD explored the work of artist Tino Sehgal in relation to speculative modes of production, complex systems and the platform. Most recently Daniel has produced a series of critically acclaimed short film commissions that explore the myths, ideologies and realities of the metaverse, neurotech and AI.
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Daniel Felstead
NARRATIVE ADVISOR
Ruth is a narrative architect, a futurist and poet based in Austin Texas. She has over three decades of experience moving abstract concepts into grounded products by crafting language into stories that both simplify and add complexity to the messages introducing concepts. Her company Future Story Lab develops sustainable socio-economic products with the foundational mission of accessibility and inclusiveness and has a lifelong interest in the arts and their power to effect change in the world. She has written a world of poems, the first collection of which is entitled ‘Fears to Feathers’, published in 2023.
Ruth Glendinning
NARRATIVE ADVISOR
Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist, and writer whose multidisciplinary projects explore all aspects of society, adapting methods from the sciences and the humanities. He is a research associate at the University of Arizona’s College of Fine Arts, a fellow at the Berggruen Institute, a research fellow at the Highland Institute and the Long Now Foundation, principal philosopher at Earth Law Center, and an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute. He co-directs the Consortium for Climate-Adapted Architectural Heritage at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics. Keats has exhibited and lectured at dozens of institutions worldwide, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to Stanford University to the Triennale di Milano, and from SXSW to CERN to UNESCO. He is the author of six books on subjects ranging from science to art, and is the author of an online art column for Forbes.
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