I Raised $11.7M To Back 13 Self-Funded Searchers | Grant Hensel Interview
Grant Hensel has started 10 companies (7 failed, 2 sold, 1 scaled), bought a business his wife now operates, and then got obsessed with backing self-funded searchers. He’s the founder of Entrepreneurial Capital, raising ~$11M to invest in “cockroach” SMBs at 3–5x earnings alongside gritty owner-operators.
If you’re buying or backing boring, profitable businesses, this is a playbook episode.
You'll learn:
00:00 Grant’s path: 10 starts, 2 exits, 1 scaled; now backing self-funded searchers
00:32 Grant’s background & living the “buy vs. build” debate
02:26 Buying a business for his wife to run (4…
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