14 VCs and 1 funds investing in Creative Tools
Principal
Craft Ventures
Check: No personal check-size range is published. His disclosed Craft investments include seed and Series A rounds, while his earlier Figma work included advising and investing in PLG SaaS from pre-seed through Series C; these are stage indicators, not personal check limits.
Sean backs technically ambitious design, developer, and bottom-up software that gives professionals greater control rather than reducing their work to generic automation. His Figma experience informs a patient PLG lens: build a deeply integrated product, let self-serve usage and customer data reveal the enterprise motion, and add sales at the right moment. Recent creative-AI work emphasizes open ecosystems, programmable workflows, proprietary formats or data, and durable orchestration layers that persist as underlying models change.
Partner
Craft Ventures
Check: No personal check-size range is published. Public Craft examples involving Lainy include led seed, Series A, and Series C investments; company financing totals should not be interpreted as her personal check authority.
Lainy backs software and marketplaces that modernize complex vertical workflows. Her cases favor founder-market fit, a painful operational wedge, simple products built on technically difficult systems, and distribution that compounds through workflow adoption or network effects. Across logistics, work management, healthcare, labor, and creative tools, she looks for products that turn fragmented manual activity into an integrated platform and make a professional capability accessible to more users.
Partner Emeritus
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Elek Straub.
Elek Straub works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Managing Partner
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for György Simó.
György Simó works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Managing Partner, CEO
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Csaba Kákosy.
Csaba Kákosy works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Partner
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Zsolt Weiszbart.
Zsolt Weiszbart works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Partner & CFO
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Judit Lucz.
Judit Lucz works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Principal
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Dóra Branyiczki.
Dóra Branyiczki works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Principal
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Peter Kromer.
Peter Kromer works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Principal
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for András Fehér.
András Fehér works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Associate
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Roland Rausz.
Roland Rausz works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Associate
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Barna Benyó.
Barna Benyó works on Day One Capital's strategy to lead and co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds for globally ambitious CEE founders building AI-native software, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, resilience and creative tools. The firm does not publish a narrower personal mandate on the cited roster.
Office Manager
Day One Capital
Check: €300K-€2M. No person-specific check range is inferred for Edit Gulácsi.
Edit Gulácsi serves Day One Capital as Office Manager. The official sources do not publish a separate personal investment thesis, so the profile retains the firm's stated strategy without attributing it personally.
Investor
BoxGroup
Check: BoxGroup publicly invests up to $1M and reserves capital for follow-ons. No reliable public source specifies a separate personal check-size range for Holley.
Holley invests at formation stage within BoxGroup's generalist, people-first mandate. Her recent public activity and graduate technical coursework show particular engagement with AI agents, personalization, multimodal systems, creativity, and products where technical capability is matched by taste. Because her investing record is still emerging publicly, these are current signals rather than a fixed or exclusive thesis.