Creative Fabrica

Creative Fabrica is the digital marketplace for creatives, founded in 2016 in Amsterdam by Anastasia Rybicka and Jan Mockenhaupt. The original insight was simple: creators — craft enthusiasts, freelance designers, digital artists — needed a place to buy fonts, vector graphics, SVGs, mockups, and creative resources at accessible prices with a vast library. Starting from fonts and resources for artisanal print (HTV, Cricut), Creative Fabrica built a community of millions of users worldwide. The strategic breakthrough came with generative AI: Creative Fabrica developed CF Spark, a text-to-image engine integrated into the platform that enables creators to generate customised images from text prompts. In 2023, it raised $61 million in a round led by Alven (Paris), with participation from LionTree and Triple Point, to accelerate AI expansion and launch new creative verticals. More recently, it introduced a text-to-3D model generator within Studio AI. In May 2026, Creative Fabrica announced a strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to scale its AI infrastructure globally, leveraging the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Creative Fabrica's story is that of a niche marketplace that found its acceleration in generative AI — building a competitive asset on data and community at a moment when the boundary between platform and creative toolset is becoming increasingly blurred.