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, and 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.

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.

Brett Johnson

Founder & CEO

In 2005, Brett M. Johnson founded Benevolent Capital, a private equity fund with investments in real estate, manufacturing and consumer brands, including Phoenix Rising FC, Octagon Partners, ArcherDX, TerraCycle, and NYC Office Suites.

Brett Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Presidential/Key Executive program at Pepperdine University. In 2014, Brett Johnson graduated from the Harvard Business School’s President’s Leadership Program. Brett Johnson is a member of the Board of Trustees for Choate Rosemary Hall and is a Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship and a member of the Board of Visitors for the Graziadio School of Business at Pepperdine University and an active member of the Young Presidents Organization.

Our Team

Grant D. Johnson

Founder and President

Michael Ward

General Counsel

Nooreya Sozahdah

Director of Operations

Todd Woodstra

SR Strategic Advisor