Mission

Approach

People

Ventures built on grit. Backed by methodology. Executed by entrepreneurs.

INTRODUCING CREATIVE DOCK

In 12 years, we have grown from a disruptive startup into the largest independent player in the corporate venture building category with a track record of 120+ ventures.

Everything we do has one single purpose – to create valuable ventures for our clients. We provide large companies with end-to-end venture building, from idea to execution and scaling. Our territories are constantly growing and so is Creative Dock itself.

Fintech
Insurtech
Retail
FMCG
Mobility
Construction
Manufacturing
Telco
Real-estate

creative dock group in time

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Decarbonization Foresight report

2024

Rohrbeck Heger has prepared another significant analysis, providing insights into the success of decarbonisation efforts, possibly until 2030.

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Nafirmy.cz exit

2024

A venture focused on loans for small and medium-sized businesses has been successfully sold to the crowdfunded startup ROIER.

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Venture building for adidas

2024

Commencement of collaboration with the German fashion and sports giant adidas to create a venture business.

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2023 Annual Sustainability Report

2023

The report encompasses our Swiss, German, and Czech entities

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Customer satisfaction 8.5

2023

The NPS value in our regular customer satisfaction surveys reached a high score of 8.5 (out of 10).

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Silver medal in ESG audit

2023

Creative Dock BER received the second-highest rating in the EcoVadis survey. It ranked in the top 15% of companies.

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Creative Dock AI transformation

2023

We began intensively implementing AI into internal processes and strategies as early as spring.

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Creative Dock Group

2023

Four newly acquired brands (Founders Lane, Idea Sense, SparkWorks, and Rohrbeck Heger) have started operating under the Creative Dock brand

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IdeaSense is the fourth company to join

2022

The Czech company expands our industry expertise and brings in the unique predictive tool, Ideapoly®.

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Creative Dock acquires FoundersLane

2022

The Berlin-based venture builder strenghtens our knowledge of and influence in the MENA and DACH regions.

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Rohrbeck Heger joins Creative Dock

2022

The German company enriches our service portfolio with strong, data-driven strategic foresight.

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Creative Dock acquires SparkWorks

2021

Switzerland’s leading innovation company joins CD to drive innovation across Europe.

Buildings

Entering the MENA region

2021

Our first Middle-Eastern office is founded in Riyadh, KSA, to support our business in the region.

EXPO 58, Creative Dock building

Big move to Expo 58

2021

With the company's increasing size, the Prague office is moved to Expo 58, an iconic building from the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels.

New peer-to-business lending platform

2020

Responding to over 9000 enterprises' discussions within Firmy sobe, CD launches Nafirmy, a platform providing solutions to all their funding problems.

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Helping SMEs and entrepreneurs

2020

COVID sparked the creation of Firmy sobe, a knowledge sharing platform for small to medium sized business owners.

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Switzerland branch office founded

2019

Creative Dock opens a branch office in Zurich, Switzerland.

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New RaaS platforms

2019

We start providing all-in-one risk management services to our clients by building RaaS platforms.

Launch of Refinanso

2018

An online mortgage refinancing platform which streamlines processes is set in motion for our client, MONETA Money Bank.

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Mutumutu founded

2018

The award-winning insurance built for Société Générale disrupts the industry through customer-centric approach and rewards for active lifestyle.

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Best e-health content

2017

Awarded for the best e-health content created for AXA Insurance.

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The first big exit

2017

Zonky, the peer-to-peer loan financing platform, is fully handed over to our client, Home Credit, after reaching a 6% marketshare of all consumer loans.

First big mass media campaign

2016

The successful campaign for the Zonky venture generates thousands of leads.

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Content team is formed

2016

For better content strategy and enhanced marketing performance. Studio by Creative Dock eventually sprouts from this team.

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Creative Dock moves to a new office

2016

Moving from the original office flat to an actual office space near the city centre. Another memorable milestone reached in the company's growth.

Munich, Germany

Expanding to first new country

2015

Creative Dock expands its territory to Germany with a branch office in Munich.

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First venture portfolio built

2015

The idea of a "Venture Factory" business model is conceived, whereby several ventures are dedicated to one client.

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First project outside Europe

2014

Our client HomeCredit seeks out the Chinese market and offers microloans in China.

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First insurance client gained

2014

Building lead generation for AXA, an insurance company with a competitive edge.

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Launch of E.ON Solar

2014

We gain the first client outside of financial services, E.ON, an energy company that encourages the use of green electricity.

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First ventures scaled

2014

Mallpay reaches over 100,000 paying customers, while Zonky rapidly expands.

Risk management capabilities enhanced

2013

Online scoring models and fraud check systems were established for screening, verification, and channel selection for the best methods of scoring.

New teams formed

2013

Big Data, IT, and Advertising agency teams created to take on more challenging and unique projects.

Second big client landed

2013

Home Credit, the world's largest consumer credit company, follows behind RBI as our second big client.

First client gained

2012

We build the first venture for Raiffeisen Bank International.

First Creative Dock office established

2012

We set up our first office in Badeniho near the Prague Castle. Small beginnings for great things.

our Methodology

our Methodology

From idea to scale

We employ our unique venture building approach to identify and explore opportunity areas, design ventures, bring them to market, and further scale and operate them.

Our proprietary methodology has been developed during years of gaining experience in venture building. Thanks to strategic foresight tools, we are in touch with both early-stage and long-term trends, and have an open-minded approach within the Explore and Venture design phases. This allows us to build truly transformational ventures disrupting the market and scale them to create new revenue for our clients.

Explore

Venture design

Bring to market

Rollout, scaling & operation

Our people

Creative precision.

Precise creativity.

Creative Dock is made up of 500+ colleagues with diverse international backgrounds and a common passion: building ventures with real-world impact. Meet some of our key personalities.

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Looking to add value to your existing assets? Our job is to build ventures that get you there.

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