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Creative Market is an online marketplace for community-generated design assets. The company sells graphics, WordPress themes, stock photography, and other digital goods for use by web creatives. Creative Market has over one million users and more than 250,000 purchasable items.〔https://creativemarket.com/about〕 It was founded in 2012 by Aaron Epstein, Chris Williams, and Darius A. Monsef IV in San Francisco, California.〔http://www.fastcompany.com/1842780/5-tips-working-remotely-guy-who-works-reaaaally-remotely〕 Creative Market has undergone three investment rounds, raising funds from notable Silicon Valley investors including 500 Startups, Y Combinator, CrunchFund, SV Angel, and Alexis Ohanian.〔http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/07/creative-market-second-round/〕 In February, 2014, the company was acquired by American multinational software corporation Autodesk for an undisclosed amount.〔http://www.zdnet.com/article/autodesk-adds-indie-design-startup-creative-market-to-toolset/〕 ==History== Creative Market first began in 2011 as a venture between Aaron Epstein, Chris Williams, and Darius A. Monsef IV.〔 Epstein, Williams, and Monsef were the co-founders of COLOURlovers, a Y Combinator-backed social network service that provides color inspiration for both personal and professional creative projects.〔 The co-founders recognized that COLOURlovers was in need of a marketplace to help its community members exchange the digital goods they were creating, and hence created Creative Market.〔 In May, 2011, the company raised $1,000,000 from 500 Startups and other investors. In June, 2012, it raised an additional $1,300,000 from a consortium of investors, including 500 Startups, CrunchFund, SV Angel, Longworth Venture Partners, Ludilow Ventures, and Alexis Ohanian.〔https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/creativemarket〕 In early 2013, the team hired Zack Onisko to lead its growth efforts, who previously served as BranchOut's Director of Growth.〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPdQhiIZ0Xs〕〔https://scripted.com/interviews-2/creative-market-content-marketing-strategy/〕 In April 2014, the team launched a Photoshop extension that allowed designers to preview and purchase Creative Market's digital assets directly within Photoshop itself. This made it easier for designers to find and integrate third-party digital assets within the workflow of their existing graphic design environments.〔http://petapixel.com/2013/04/12/creative-market-launches-a-marketplace-extension-for-photoshop/〕〔http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/creative-market-previews-its-api-for-a-digital-asset-marketplace-with-photoshop-extension/〕〔http://www.wired.com/2013/04/creative-market-photoshop-plugin/〕 In February of 2014, Creative Market was acquired by Autodesk. The amount of the acquisition was not publicly announced.〔 The entirety of the Creative Market team stayed with the company through the acquisition.〔http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/19/autodesk-buys-creative-market-jumping-into-maker-marketplace/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creative Market」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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