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Grant founded Keybridge in 2011 to house his angel investments. The name comes from the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which he could see from his Georgetown condo. Keybridge has since expanded to include fund of funds and numerous late-stage SPVs, attracting high net worth investors and family offices from across the globe.
Grant Allen is currently a Fund Partner with I Squared Capital, a $60 billion AUM infrastructure fund focused on the middle market and headquartered in Miami, Florida. At I Squared, Grant leads the InfraTech® strategy and invests in the Physical AI companies that power, connect and move the modern world.
The InfraTech® platform rests on a simple thesis: AI is leaving the screen and rewiring the built world, blurring the line between technology and infrastructure. InfraTech backs startups operating along that line, where software meets steel, applying AI and advanced technologies to the physical economy.
Grant has spent two decades at the intersection of venture capital and industrial operations, building his career inside two of the world's largest infrastructure and automation companies. As founding General Partner of SE Ventures, a $1.1 billion Silicon Valley fund created in partnership with Schneider Electric, and previously as global head of venture capital for ABB, where he advised the Group CTO and sat on ABB's Technology Leadership Committee, he focused on what corporate venture does best and traditional venture rarely can: opening distribution channels and converting a strategic operating footprint into commercial acceleration for founders. That model is now the foundation of I Squared's InfraTech growth strategy, where more than 110 operating companies serve as a live proving ground, test bed and customer channel for portfolio companies.
At SE Ventures, Grant helped grow the team from four people working out of a WeWork to 17 FTEs in Menlo Park plus a global team covering Western Europe, Israel and India. Investments include Higharc, Plotlogic, Scandit, Station A, Fabric8Labs, Kojo and AutoGrid (acquired by Schneider Electric). At ABB Ventures, he grew the fund's budget, team and mandate, doubled the fund-of-funds platform, and helped make ABB the most active corporate venture investor in robotics and applied AI behind Google. Investments there include Bonsai AI (acquired by Microsoft), Industrial Defender (acquired by Lockheed Martin), Enbala Power Systems (acquired by Generac), Validus (acquired by ABB), Persimmon Technologies (acquired by Sumitomo), Trilliant, Natron Energy, Soft Robotics, Everactive, MineSense and Vicarious, along with two companies that were still private unicorns at the time, Northvolt and CMR Surgical.
Most recently, Grant was a Venture Partner at London-based Giant Ventures, where he led investments in Pano AI, a computer vision platform for wildfire detection, and Cosmic Robotics, a Physical AI platform for renewable energy installation.
Grant began his venture career at Core Capital Partners, a $400 million enterprise software fund, where he wrote the first investment memo for the firm's Series A investment in NYSE-listed Olo, the best-performing investment in Core's history with a market cap that exceeded $5 billion at its peak. He is a founding member of NextGen Venture Partners (acquired by Brown Advisory) and remains an active angel investor, with personal investments in more than 50 startups including Coinbase, OpenAI, Dexterity, Formic, Second Front and EquityZen.
Grant appeared muliple times on Global Corporate Venturing's Power List 100 and has spoken in more than a dozen countries. He holds degrees from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and completed executive education at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.
An east coast native who has lived in Australia, Switzerland and Greece, today Grant resides in Miami, Florida with his wife, Katherine Kennedy Allen, and three children.