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
First Creative Dock office established
We set up our first office in Badeniho near the Prague Castle. Small beginnings for great things.
First client gained
We build the first venture for Raiffeisen Bank International.
Second big client landed
Home Credit, the world's largest consumer credit company, follows behind RBI as our second big client.
New teams formed
Big Data, IT, and Advertising agency teams created to take on more challenging and unique projects.
Risk management capabilities enhanced
Online scoring models and fraud check systems were established for screening, verification, and channel selection for the best methods of scoring.
First ventures scaled
Mallpay reaches over 100,000 paying customers, while Zonky rapidly expands.
Launch of E.ON Solar
We gain the first client outside of financial services, E.ON, an energy company that encourages the use of green electricity.
First insurance client gained
Building lead generation for AXA, an insurance company with a competitive edge.
First project outside Europe
Our client HomeCredit seeks out the Chinese market and offers microloans in China.
First venture portfolio built
The idea of a "Venture Factory" business model is conceived, whereby several ventures are dedicated to one client.
Expanding to first new country
Creative Dock expands its territory to Germany with a branch office in Munich.
Creative Dock moves to a new office
Moving from the original office flat to an actual office space near the city centre. Another memorable milestone reached in the company's growth.
Content team is formed
For better content strategy and enhanced marketing performance. Studio by Creative Dock eventually sprouts from this team.
First big mass media campaign
The successful campaign for the Zonky venture generates thousands of leads.
The first big exit
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.
Best e-health content
Awarded for the best e-health content created for AXA Insurance.
Mutumutu founded
The award-winning insurance built for Société Générale disrupts the industry through customer-centric approach and rewards for active lifestyle.
Launch of Refinanso
An online mortgage refinancing platform which streamlines processes is set in motion for our client, MONETA Money Bank.
New RaaS platforms
We start providing all-in-one risk management services to our clients by building RaaS platforms.
Switzerland branch office founded
Creative Dock opens a branch office in Zurich, Switzerland.
Helping SMEs and entrepreneurs
COVID sparked the creation of Firmy sobe, a knowledge sharing platform for small to medium sized business owners.
New peer-to-business lending platform
Responding to over 9000 enterprises' discussions within Firmy sobe, CD launches Nafirmy, a platform providing solutions to all their funding problems.
Big move to Expo 58
With the company's increasing size, the Prague office is moved to Expo 58, an iconic building from the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels.
Entering the MENA region
Our first Middle-Eastern office is founded in Riyadh, KSA, to support our business in the region.
Creative Dock acquires SparkWorks
Switzerland’s leading innovation company joins CD to drive innovation across Europe.
Rohrbeck Heger joins Creative Dock
The German company enriches our service portfolio with strong, data-driven strategic foresight.
Creative Dock acquires FoundersLane
The Berlin-based venture builder strenghtens our knowledge of and influence in the MENA and DACH regions.
IdeaSense is the fourth company to join
The Czech company expands our industry expertise and brings in the unique predictive tool, Ideapoly®.
Creative Dock Group
Four newly acquired brands (Founders Lane, Idea Sense, SparkWorks, and Rohrbeck Heger) have started operating under the Creative Dock brand
Creative Dock AI transformation
We began intensively implementing AI into internal processes and strategies as early as spring.
Silver medal in ESG audit
Creative Dock BER received the second-highest rating in the EcoVadis survey. It ranked in the top 15% of companies.
Customer satisfaction 8.5
The NPS value in our regular customer satisfaction surveys reached a high score of 8.5 (out of 10).
Venture building for adidas
Commencement of collaboration with the German fashion and sports giant adidas to create a venture business.
Nafirmy.cz exit
A venture focused on loans for small and medium-sized businesses has been successfully sold to the crowdfunded startup ROIER.
Decarbonization Foresight report
Rohrbeck Heger has prepared another significant analysis, providing insights into the success of decarbonisation efforts, possibly until 2030.
creative dock in numbers
Always looking for talent
Always looking for talent
Our international team operates in Berlin, Prague, Riyadh and Zurich. But our ventures reach across Europe, MENA, and the world.
Execution is key
Execution is key
Strong personalities with entrepreneurial nature can change the world. And we have the know-how and the methodology to back them up.
Creation by doing
Creation by doing
We believe that there is no such thing as impossible. Creative Dock itself is a product of this mindset – and so are our individual ventures.
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.
the people of cd
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