Edward Barroll Brown

Ed founded Grafton Capital in 2014 and has built the business to deploy over £100m of invested capital to date, focused on growth stage investments in tech-enabled businesses. He led the recent growth buyout of Third Financial, where he is a board director, and he also serves on the boards of Alva Reputation and SportPursuit.

Ed’s interest in technology investing began during the 90’s tech bubble as an amateur stock investor, whilst at university, before starting his professional career in the London office of the US law firm Jones Day. More recently, until 2014 Ed was a partner at the entrepreneurial asset management firm CIT Group, with circa £1.5bn in assets under management. Ed has gained broad commercial and investment experience across several sectors, business models and investment styles, including real estate, leisure and early stage investing in the CleanTech and FinTech sectors, before launching Grafton Capital to focus on growth stage tech-enabled businesses.

Ed has also experienced entrepreneurial success, having conceived and founded a successful PropTech start-up, HomeViews, to address an opportunity he identified in the real estate market. HomeViews has independent management and Ed remains a non-executive director.

Ed lives in Berkshire with his wife and three young daughters.