Encouraging
We love cheering our searcher partners on, in good times and bad.
Love of Business
We love helping searchers build businesses; it's a calling, not a job.
The American Dream
It's not dead. We love seeing searchers bet on themselves and win.

Our ideal investment: a trustworthy searcher buying an enduring business

Typical investment parameters:

500k+ Earnings

3-5x Multiple

USA & Canada

Grant Hensel

Managing Partner

Location: Chicago, IL 
Email: grant@entrepreneurialcapital.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/granthensel

Grant and his wife Julia of seven years live in Chicago, IL. They met while students at Wheaton College.

Serial Entrepreneur

Founder & Chairman of Nonprofit Megaphone, a digital marketing agency that has grown to now serving ~800 clients.

Founder of 9 other businesses: 2 were acquired, 2 fizzled out, 5 became smoking craters.

Self-Funded Search Experience

Acquired Lexigate, an SEO agency with 20 team members serving personal injury attorneys.

Became a living statistic that ETA success rates are much higher than startup success rates.

Investor in Self-Funded Searchers

10+ personal investments.

MBA with Honors, University of Chicago Booth School of Business