Grant Allen Email & Phone Number

California, United States

London, GB

Founded in partnership with McKinsey, Giant is THE firm for purpose-driven founders. I'm focused on ~$10m Series B investments across US & Europe as well as selective sourcing for Giant's seed strategy (Pre-seed and seed; 10-15% target ownership for $300k-$2.5M; US and Europe) across 3 verticals: climate/sustainability + inclusive capital + healthcare.

Venture capital platform covering three broad areas: (1) early-stage investments in enterprise information technologies/analytics, broad B2B and deeptech where we can provide value-add; (2) expansion and growth equity investments via direct equity, direct secondaries and SPVs; and (3) fund investments. >$5M deployed across 45+ investments including.

Washington, DC, US

OMF is the #1 destination online for eye cancer patient support and research funding. Since 2003, OMF has provided direct patient and caregiver education and critical research funding for the most common form of eye cancer in adults, uveal melanoma. This rare and deadly cancer (dx'ed in my father, who was himself an eye surgeon, ironically) is diagnosed in.

San Francisco, California, US

Network drive seed-stage venture firm committed to building the next generation of great companies. Acquired by Brown Advisory.

London, England, GB

Set strategy and drove pipeline development for independent $500M Series B/C deep tech fund under umbrella of Octopus Energy / Octopus Renewable Generation.

Menlo Park, CA, US

SE Ventures is a $1.1 billion venture fund backed by Schneider Electric. We had carry and ran it through Fund I as a hybrid CVC, close enough to Schneider to get tremendous commercial alignment & acceleration but air-gapped enough to run fast and get into phenomenal. Fund II required BU sponsors for every deal.I sourced and/or led 60% of all the closed.

Menlo Park, CA, US

New York, New York, US

Zurich, ZH, CH

I led ABB's global venture investing activities and startup innovation efforts out of ABB's Silicon Valley offices in San Jose, CA, reporting to the global CTO of ABB. Managed $50M/year investment budget and oversaw active portfolio of 21 direct investments, over 35 active partnership engagements, and 7 active venture funds (via ~$70M in LP commitments)..

Zurich, ZH, CH

$400M venture fund in Washington, DC focused on enterprise software with greatest successes around security, analytics and communications technologies. Top quartile performer across two funds. Notable exits incl. Sourcefire (IPO; later acquired by Cisco in 2013 for approx. $2.7B), Inlet Technologies (acquired by Cisco for $95M), IXI (acquired by Equifax).

Redmond, Washington, US

Drove product strategy & partner marketing rollout planning for Business Marketing Organization (BMO)

Backed by Goldman Sachs, First Round Capital, Flybridge, Hearst Ventures and others.Acquired for $63M by Marchex.

Various strategy consulting projects mostly in financial services and telecom (wireline cost cutting, wireless services GTM strategy) e.g. helped major telco optimize their circuit configurations and saved them over $300M/year. Lots of numbers and lots of travel.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Expert testimony support and liability estimate / data modeling across wide array of complex mass tort cases. Big data / STATA coding / econometric analysis. Lots of numbers.

Mba, Venture Capital & Private Equity (Individualized Major; Full-Time Program)

Senior Leadership Development Program (Sldp) Xix (On Site In Lausanne, Switzerland), Executive Education

Bachelors Of Science, Engineering, Civil And Environmental Engineering

Engineering Coursework (Sydney, Aus)

Education record