About Creative Blue
The Strategic Partner Behind High-Growth Brands
Creative Blue partners with VCs, founders, and established brands to create transformative solutions that grow and amplify their market presence. Our fractional marketing services blend brand strategy, tactical planning, and creative execution to turn high potential into real momentum.
For companies and brands rewriting the future, we don’t just capture attention. We spark belief, build momentum, and help the world catch up to your ambition.
Our mission
Strategy, story and execution under one roof
Conversational Expertise
Our work begins with total immersion in your world. We can’t isolate the spark that makes you different until we can speak your language, and we learn it from the inside out. We interview stakeholders, read everything from white papers to marketing copy, and research the competitive landscape. And because stories are defined by their relevance, we do it all on a deadline.
It takes time, effort, and engagement to merge our abilities with your experience, but the result, a custom-built creative partnership ready for any challenge, is always worth the investment.
The Core Story Difference
At Creative Blue, we dig deep to uncover your Core Story, the spark that sets you apart and drives everything you do. We help you shape it, sharpen it, and weave it through every strategy and execution, making sure your story doesn’t just stand out. It becomes your competitive advantage.
Team Experience
From day one, you’re backed by senior leaders who’ve been operators, advisors, and builders at every stage of the journey. We bring real-world experience, not theory, to shape strategy, drive execution, and accelerate your growth with precision and impact.
We drive smart strategy, hands-on execution, and the capital-efficient moves that maximize valuation, fuel growth, and position you for what’s next.
The team
Senior leaders, on the work
No layers between you and the people doing it. Every engagement is run by the three of them.
Chris OttFounder & Chief Executive OfficerTurning complex vision into market momentum. A trusted advisor to enterprise leaders and venture-backed founders at high-stakes inflection points.View profile →
Tina MirfarsiChief Operating OfficerTwo decades directing cross-functional operations, enterprise communications, and brand growth, guiding executive leadership and public companies through critical inflection points.View profile →
Josh ReinholdGrowth StrategistFifteen years across corporate and executive communications, film production, and large-scale live events, for companies scaling voice, reputation and reach.View profile →Selected work
The story holds, and the round closes
Five engagements, from a debut venture fund to an enterprise platform with decades of technology behind it. Every one started by settling the core story, then built the material that carried it.
Venture capital, Fund II
Ironspring Ventures
$100MFund II closed, June 2024
Fund II closed on a story built from scratch
Ironspring had no pitch structure and no internal messaging framework to build from, so the story had to be uncovered from the ground up. We found the through line in their operational edge across construction, manufacturing, logistics and energy, then rebuilt the raise materials around it: a live deck, a leave-behind, and a teaser for warm intros. The work carried straight into a new website.
I can’t brag on Creative Blue any further. They really did an amazing job for us and our Fund II efforts, and this team is certainly now well-versed in the digital industrial ethos.Ty Findley, General Partner, Ironspring VenturesRead the case study →
Healthcare AI, Series B
$60MSeries B closed
Akido Labs
A crowded AI healthcare market and a vision that had to read as executable, not hyped. Core story first, then the investor deck.
Read the case study →Venture capital, Fund I
$40MFund I closed
Stellation Capital
A solo GP formalizing a reputation he had already built. Narrative and pitch for Fund I, then the brand and website as the firm scaled. Partners since 2021.
Read the case study →Product digitization, Enterprise
7use cases, one core story
Digimarc
Technology that lost its value when simplified and lost the room when explained in full. The core story and messaging playbook now run across their site and customer materials.
Read the case study →Enterprise software, Sales kickoff
Globalteams engaged
Smartsheet
An in-person sales kickoff that had to go fully virtual. We built it as a talk show: executive conversation, strategic content, music and comedy between segments.
Read the case study →Let’s work together
Aligned with your mission, and ready to help scale your business.
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