Creekstone Ventures
Creekstone
Creekstone Ventures is a young AI-native fund founded roughly a year ago, built around a deliberately small and agile partnership model. Its partner Yihao Li frames the firm as operating with "weakness thinking" — positioning itself as a thinking companion to founders rather than a dominant, prescriptive investor, a stance shaped by his view that AI represents a stochastic new paradigm without maps or path dependency. The fund has made early bets including OdyssLife, an AI necklace startup where Creekstone joined as an angel investor and continued to follow on in a subsequent ~200 million yuan round alongside Linear Capital. Its approach has drawn appreciation from portfolio founders: Mizzen AI's Keqiang Sun, asked where he'd allocate $3 million, named Creekstone first, citing their product and market counsel as well as a shared founder-to-founder empathy. elsewhere's own reporting situates Creekstone within a wave of new funds distinguished by unconventional fundraising, youth-focused sourcing, and reimagined partnership structures.
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