Founder · Investor · Venture Builder
You see things and you say “Why?” I dream of things that never were, and I ask “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw
I build companies that solve real problems and win for everyone they touch. A new kind of venture capital.
01 The person
I am Andrew Grant. I work across London, Berlin and New York, and I have spent two decades turning big ideas into companies. My focus never changes: transformational technology at global scale, always in finance, music and health, always measured by the good it does as much as the return it makes.
I believe ideas can transfer lives, that entrepreneurs will save the world, and that the point of building wealth is to share it. Every company I create has to earn its place on both counts.
02 For investors
It does not have to be this way. So I am building a different kind of venture capitalist.
A VC that solves big problems and delivers a real win for everyone in the room, not a rug-pull dressed up as a return. I take the biggest risk, so no one else has to — skin in the game for every single person involved, starting with me.
I believe you must look after everyone, from your biggest investor to your lowest-paid employee. Give them a shared goal, a clear picture of what success looks like, and the purpose and passion to make it happen. Then you are all building the same tomorrow.
Entrepreneurs will save the world. Sadly, a small but loud gang of greedy tech bros gave the whole sector a bad name: venture, capital, entrepreneurship and raw ambition are now seen as the enemy, not the cure. We are here to change that and write an exciting new chapter for everyone who builds a better future.
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03 The engine · for builders
Part venture fund, part engineering firm, part digital agency, part consulting practice, and all accelerator. We take big, unsolved global problems, put our own capital and reputation on the line, design the solution with the people the problem affects, and build the company that delivers the tech to solve it. Launched in 2013 to bring the discipline of the production line to the creation of a company.
We start with a problem worth solving at global scale, in finance, music or health, and nothing else. The problem writes the brief.
We make the product in-house: well-designed, well-built, first to market, and tested on real users before a penny of outside money is raised.
We raise at Series A, hand the keys to a founder-operator who earns equity and the top job, and take it worldwide, profitable inside three years.
Our team are all at the top of their game. Domain experts join to build, earn equity, and grow into the top job.
04 For founders
You do not need the tools, the tech, the contacts or the cash. You need one thing: an idea worth building. We bring the rest, and we put our own skin in the game beside you. Here is what we look for.
A problem you have lived and understand, not one you guessed at from a spreadsheet.
One solution that fits a market measured in billions. The same answer, everywhere.
It transforms a sector, an industry or a market. It does not just decorate what exists.
A genuine win for the people it touches, not only the people who fund it.
If you are sitting on a business that could change a sector, pitch it. No idea is too raw, only too small.
My Investment Portfolio
The top-of-wallet payment layer for live music.
OnBeat turns a festival wristband into a year-round relationship. Cashless, frictionless payments that let independent festivals do more with less: new revenue without new infrastructure, deeper connections with fans long after the gates close, and a direct line to the sponsors and investors who want in. On the road to a Series A raise, with DJ Awards USA in Miami as the proving ground.
Breaking the record industry open.
The CD, the MP3, the iPhone, streaming: they changed how we hear music, not who gets paid. Four majors still own the game, the artists who make the music say they cannot earn from it, and the charts have gone quiet. FonoTec is built to change the industry itself, giving any artist a direct route to a market of eight billion people, and making sure the people who make the music are the people who make the money.
Dance music’s night of nights, since 1998.
I acquired the DJ Awards in 2024 and brought a legend back to life. For our 25th anniversary we move to a new home at Amnesia Ibiza on 7 October 2026: a global gala dinner, the awards show, and an afterparty where winners from 25 years play back to back. In 2027 the Awards leave the island for the first time in their history, landing at Art Basel Miami in the Faena Theatre.
Your passport to the inner circle.
A curated Founder Circle for a three-day, all-inclusive residency at the five-star Nobu Ibiza Bay: front-row at the 25th Anniversary DJ Awards gala at Amnesia, the Met Gala of dance music, with premier tables at Pacha and Hï. Frictionless wearable tech, private chauffeurs, every detail handled. Land in Ibiza and turn your phone to Do Not Disturb.
Part X Factor, part Dragons’ Den, all conviction.
Made for TV, exclusive to YouTube. We put a sofa on the street and ask strangers for the business hidden inside them: the nurse who can fix the waiting list, the bus driver sitting on a traffic goldmine. Private equity has been strip-mining the future. Street Capital is the answer, proof that everyone has a business in them, and a brighter future worth building.
05 Connect
Whichever door is yours, every message reaches me directly.
A business that could change a sector, with no home yet. Bring it to the factory.
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