About US

Benevolent Capital was founded in 2005 by Brett and Grant Johnson as a family office. Brett Johnson has varying levels of operational and ownership control over several professional soccer clubs and commercial real estate developments in both the United States and United Kingdom. Grant Johnson primarily oversees Benevolent’s Venture Capital and Private Equity portfolio.

From its initial launch, the Benevolent platform has expanded to include an experienced group of partners, executives and investors. The Benevolent portfolio continues to expand with investments in early-stage companies, many that have increased in their respective valuations since the investment, along with real estate development and professional soccer franchises.

Benevolent Capital redefines the art of partnership between investing and investors. As General Partners, we invest in every portfolio company, and we never take a management fee from our LPs.  Additionally,  until or unless your investment earns 100% preferred return (2x on invested capital), we don’t take a promote - meaning we succeed only when you succeed.

Before creating the family office, most of the current team of professionals at Benevolent were chief operating executives at both private and public companies having over $500 Million in annual revenues. Our wide range of experience, from managing successful companies and handling acquisitions and a wide range of debt and equity investments, enables us to truly partner with the entrepreneurs and management teams of our portfolio companies and provide guidance towards their growth and maximizing investor returns.

Benevolent has a proven track record of successful investments that have led to returns actually realized. Most notably, our $200,000 investment in seed capital for Enzymatics, a biotech firm later ultimately acquired by Invitae (now owned by LabCorp Holdings Inc.) yielded over $30,000,000 in total returns.