Deaku secures £480k in pre-seed funding led by Fuel Ventures to expand its creator workspace platform.
Fuel Ventures led the pre-seed round, which included participation from several prominent creators and strategists.
Deaku develops an intelligent workspace designed to power the creator economy by integrating strategy, analytics, collaboration, and artificial intelligence into a single platform. The system aims to replace fragmented software stacks for professional creators and production teams.
Deaku has secured £480k in a pre-seed funding round led by Fuel Ventures. The capital will be deployed to accelerate product development, strengthen support capabilities, and expand go-to-market initiatives, including partnerships with prominent creators. Additional participants in the round included high-profile creators such as Rob Landes, Charles Berthoud, Rob Van Impe, and Mario Joos.
Founded by childhood friends Oscar Ferguson and Harrison Chapman, Deaku provides an infrastructure layer for the creator economy, consolidating strategy, analytics, collaboration, and artificial intelligence into one workspace. The founders established the company after experiencing the inefficiencies of disconnected tool stacks while scaling their own digital operations.
Fuel Ventures led the financing, citing the founders' direct insight into industry bottlenecks and their vision for building operational foundations for modern creator-led businesses. The creator economy currently spans millions of professional creators worldwide and is valued at $250bn.
From the founder
"The Creator Economy has grown at extraordinary speed, but the infrastructure hasn't kept up. Creators are forced to patch together multiple tools that don't speak to each other. Deaku changes that. We're building the connected workspace that creators and teams actually need – one system that understands their strategy, their data and their workflow."
Oscar Ferguson
Co-founder at Deaku
Investor perspective
"What stood out to us was Oscar and Harrison's combination of first-hand insight into the challenges the industry is facing and product vision. They're not just building another creator tool – they're laying the operational foundations for how modern creator-led businesses run. Deaku is positioned to become a foundational platform in this rapidly growing sector, and we're excited to support its growth."
Mark Pearson
Managing Partner, Fuel Ventures
Use of funds
- 01Continue product development
- 02Accelerate go-to-market