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Creative Market (YC W10) — Marketplace for graphic design assets

Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.

Creative Market is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2010 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Marketplace for graphic design assets. The founders listed are Darius "Bubs" Monsef (Founder/CEO), Aaron Epstein (Founder), Chris Williams (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).

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Creative Market

New accelerator entry · 2012-01-17 · the record

Winter 2010
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2010
Announced2012-01-17
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsMarketplace, Design
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://creativemarket.com

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Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.

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