Creative Thinking Ventures specializes in start-ups in pre-seed and stand-up stage, and in business development. Focus is mainly on Italian startups. Mission Investment in the very early stages of Startups. Pre-seed or seed only. Create value by developing customer focused creativity. Vision We are proud of having developed a creative and proprietary approach to investment. In which we evaluate the creativity in the different aspects of a company, start-up or venture. How this originality and uniqueness translates in extraordinary customer satisfaction and loyalty. How this enhances customer preference and long term competitiveness. What do we do: We started off in 2009 as a long term investment operation, specializing in small, nano and micro caps. Strictly in listed companies, mainly NASDAQ. We have, since 2013, opened to investment in earlier stages. We mainly operate in the sharing economy, ecommerce and marketplaces, retail on-line and off-line, but we are open to other ideas which may disrupt a market. * in 2014, pre-seed in a start-up operating a foreign language marketplace on internet. * in 2015, in two startups operating businesses in the sharing economy. * in 2016, in a startup developing a #disruptive tool for ecommerce. We have a separate division which specializes in support activities. Advisory and Consultancy We support startups, and we have some specific tools. We have developed a competence in consumer oriented startups. * Sharing Economy C2C We also assure the link between new economy and old economy, with a particular focus on consumer and trade customers as well as training. * Retail sector B2C * Industrial sector B2B International business development, business building, internationalization of companies and export. With a track record: we total more than 30 years of experience.