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Grant Hensel

Trailblazer · DISC type DI
Founder, General Partner at Entrepreneurial Capital
📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Grant is a founder and investor focused on acquiring and scaling small businesses through Entrepreneurial Capital. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth and is the founder of Nonprofit Megaphone, a 5x Inc. 5000 honoree that helps nonprofits leverage the Google Ad Grant.

He is passionate about building businesses that create meaningful impact. He and his wife, a fellow Booth graduate, successfully completed a self-funded business acquisition together. Grant also co-authored a book by curating the favorite business books of 150 Fortune 500 CEOs.

To learn what makes business leaders successful, he wrote to Fortune 500 CEOs and compiled their top 50 book recommendations into a guide.

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Current Role
Founder, General Partner
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Personality Overview

How Grant shows up

Persuasive
Friendly But Fast
Achievement-Oriented

They prefer to ensure that they are in control of the situation. A combination of speed and relationship gets the best response from them. They will bat for you if they come to believe in you.

Priorities

Topics Grant cares about

Acquisition Entrepreneurship
He completed a self-funded acquisition with his wife and now invests in and coaches other entrepreneurs through the process, even launching sourcing bootcamps.
Nonprofit Growth
He founded Nonprofit Megaphone to help hundreds of nonprofits thrive using the Google Ad Grant and previously founded the acquired RoundUp App for donations.
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Career

Work history

Founder, General Partner
Entrepreneurial Capital
Founder - Nonprofit Megaphone
Nonprofit Megaphone
Member
3i Members
Founder - RoundUp App (Acquired)
RoundUp App
Marketing Director
CVM, Inc.
In the press

Media appearances

Backing Self-Funded Searchers: Inside Grant Hensel's Investment Strategy. Featured in Entrepreneurial Capital
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I Raised $11.7M To Back 13 Self-Funded Searchers | Grant Hensel Interview. Featured in Entrepreneurial Capital (Media Section)
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Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Wheaton College
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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