{"id":374073,"date":"2026-03-31T03:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:46:15","slug":"creatine-brand-create-wellness-raises-20-million-in-fresh-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374073\/","title":{"rendered":"Creatine Brand Create Wellness Raises $20 Million In Fresh Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" top-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774928775_637_0x0.jpg\" alt=\"Creatine + Electrolyte mix bag on a countertop\" data-height=\"1120\" data-width=\"1680\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Create Wellness launched on Monday a Creatine + Electrolyte mix that will be available on Create\u2019s website, Amazon, and exclusively in-store at Target,<\/p>\n<p>Create Wellness<\/p>\n<p>Create Wellness, a <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbes-personal-shopper\/article\/best-creatine-supplements\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbes-personal-shopper\/article\/best-creatine-supplements\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"creatine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">creatine<\/a> gummy supplement brand, has raised $20 million in new funding amid a prolonged surge in American fitness and muscle-building supplementation. <\/p>\n<p>The round was led by Alliance Consumer Growth (ACG), along with family office Impact Capital, and included participation from existing company investor Unilever Ventures. Previously, Create Wellness raised $5 million in a 2024 Series A funding round led by Unilever Ventures. Create Wellness has raised a total of $27.3 million in outside funding.<\/p>\n<p>Create Wellness was co-founded in 2022 by the husband-and-wife duo Dan McCormick, co-CEO, and Sienna McCormick, co-CEO. Dan McCormick said he was a near-lifelong user of creatine powder and spotted an opportunity to make the product more user-friendly and attractive to a broader audience beyond male bodybuilders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200b\u200bWe didn&#8217;t see any brands treating creatine like a hero product. It was always an add-on product, and our view is that creatine deserves the same respect and honor that other compounds or supplements receive,\u201d said McCormick.<\/p>\n<p>Create Wellness plans to direct the new funding into expanding retail distribution, investing in consumer education, advancing product innovation and additional marketing. Create Wellness is sold through The Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, Wegmans and Sprouts market and Target. Create Wellness is doubling its product assortment at Target to include a newly launched Creatine + Electrolyte mix and an upcoming unflavored creatine monohydrate powder in single-serve sticks. <\/p>\n<p>Create Wellness\u2019s rapid expansion and ability to tap into outside funding emerges, in part, from current American fitness trends toward weightlifting and use of GLP-1s which have, in turn, spurred interest in <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbes-personal-shopper\/article\/best-protein-powder\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbes-personal-shopper\/article\/best-protein-powder\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"protein and other muscle-building remedies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">protein and other muscle-building remedies<\/a>. The U.S. protein market was valued at $114.4 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow at a steady annual rate of 1.9% until 2028, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintel.com\/insights\/food-and-drink\/from-steaks-to-shakes-understanding-the-us-protein-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.mintel.com\/insights\/food-and-drink\/from-steaks-to-shakes-understanding-the-us-protein-market\/\" aria-label=\"Mintel\">Mintel<\/a>. But women and older adults are seen as a key driver behind the creatine sales boost, with retailers like GNC where women now account for 30% of all creatine purchases at the retailer, up from 18% in 2020, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-02\/women-and-older-adults-are-driving-sales-of-creatine-higher?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-02\/women-and-older-adults-are-driving-sales-of-creatine-higher?embedded-checkout=true\" aria-label=\"Bloomberg\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/02\/well\/move\/weight-lifting-america-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/02\/well\/move\/weight-lifting-america-history.html\" aria-label=\"one in three Americans\">one in three Americans<\/a> says they regularly strength train, up from one in five in the early 2000s. The <a href=\"https:\/\/acsm.org\/top-fitness-trends-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/acsm.org\/top-fitness-trends-2026\/\" aria-label=\"American College of Sports Medicine\">American College of Sports Medicine<\/a> identified exercise for mental health and \u201cactive aging\u201d exercise for older adults as contributing to this shift and among two of the biggest fitness trends for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWellness has moved beyond the physical, with a growing lens on longevity and quality of healthspan \u2014 and as such, mental and emotional well-being has grown in importance,\u201d said Josh Goldin of Alliance Consumer Growth (ACG), via email.<\/p>\n<p>Goldin credited Create Wellness\u2019s approachable lifestyle branding with accelerating trial and adoption of creatine beyond the traditional gym-bro crowd. Mori said customers are split almost even between men and women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreate Wellness was an arbitrage opportunity in terms of the perception of creatine and the [monohydrate gummy] form factor. It\u2019s a unique opportunity for us to capitalize on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bIn addition to the funding announcement, Create Wellness also launched a new multi-functional supplement: Creatine + Electrolytes. It is the brand\u2019s first expansion outside of pure creatine. The product will be available on the brand\u2019s website, Amazon, and exclusively in-store at Target.<\/p>\n<p>But McCormick said that creatine will always be the core and hero ingredient for the brand, and that goal is not to build a supplement platform. Instead, the new product is based on McCormick\u2019s knowledge that fitness-goers were already using both creatine and electrolytes and would find the convenience of a combo product appealing or an easy add-on for electrolyte-only users. Previously, Create Wellness launched a flavored creatine powder, but the team found that it did not fit into customers\u2019 existing habits, and later discontinued the product.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to be a learning journey as we try to expand and make this our first true secondary product launch,\u201d said Mori. \u201cBut we\u2019re fully focused on one goal, creatine, and it\u2019s allowed us to move much quicker in this space than others; we are on our way to becoming synonymous with creatine.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Create Wellness launched on Monday a Creatine + Electrolyte mix that will be available on Create\u2019s website, Amazon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4368,103,61,60,446,2682,27206],"class_list":{"0":"post-374073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-glp-1","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-nutrition","13":"tag-protein","14":"tag-supplement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}