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January 10, 2023

How Creative Fabrica raised $61m from ‘live, laugh, love’ posters and generative AI

Take a look at the pitch deck the Dutch startup used to bag its new round


Zosia Wanat

3 min read

Creative Fabrica founders Roemie Hillenaar (left) and Anca Stefan

Amsterdam-based Creative Fabrica, a marketplace for digital files like print-on-demand posters, fonts and graphics, has raised $61m, profiting from the recent generative AI boom. The round is a mixture of debt and equity; the company declined to say what the percentage of each was. 

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Zosia Wanat

Zosia Wanat was a senior reporter at Sifted. She covered the CEE region and policy. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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