Grain Ventures is a disciplined, late stage investment group built to provide select investors with access to high quality private market opportunities through a curated, alignment driven approach.
A clear, guided path to participating in late-stage private investments – designed to be simple, structured, and intentional.
A clear, guided path to participating in late-stage private investments – designed to be simple, structured, and intentional.
To redefine access to late-stage private markets by prioritizing discipline, alignment, and long-term thinking over scale and speed.
Curate a few high-conviction private investment opportunities, giving aligned investors access through a trusted network.
We focus on being selective, disciplined, and aligned with every choice we make as a partner to our investors.
Meet the person behind the relationships, decisions, and access.
Neil brings over a decade of experience in corporate development, M&A and strategic investing across some of the world’s most complex and innovation-driven industries. He began his career at Danaher Corporation, where he was deeply involved in evaluating, executing and integrating acquisitions across a broad portfolio of operating companies spanning life sciences, diagnostics, semiconductors, food and beverage, aerospace, oil and gas and industrial technology. Working within the Danaher Business System (DBS) instilled a disciplined, first-principles approach to diligence, value creation and long-term capital allocation.
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Through this work, Neil developed a sharp lens for identifying how technology, automation, data and platform economics reshape industries over time—not in theory, but in practice. His exposure to hundreds of acquisition targets and operating environments sharpened his ability to separate durable innovation from transient hype, and to assess businesses based on unit economics, scalability and strategic relevance.
Grain Ventures was formed to extend this institutional underwriting mindset to a curated group of investors who typically lack access to late-stage private opportunities. Neil’s approach is rooted in deep diligence, market structure analysis and pattern recognition developed through years of evaluating acquisitions at scale, combined with an operator’s understanding of how innovation actually gets adopted inside large enterprises. Neil holds a long-standing belief that the most compelling private investments sit at the convergence of proven business models, structural tailwinds, and enabling technology—and that disciplined underwriting matters most when markets are crowded and narratives are loud.
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