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Adrian Grenier

Founder of Earth Speed Media

Austin, Texas

Overview 

Adrian Grenier is the Co-Founder of DuContra Ventures and Earth Speed Media, with a focus on impact investing and venture capital. He has successfully invested in companies like Seeds and Blueland, demonstrating a strong commitment to sustainable business practices and storytelling within the industry.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer

    2022 - Current

Earth Speed Media is a media production company.

  • Co-founder & GP

    2019

    DuContra blends impact investing with transformative experiences and personal development. "DuContra,” coming from Portuguese, means “rebel," "in opposition or contrast to." We push against established systems and question everything. If we want to change the world, we must be willing to change ourselves. The well-being of our founders, investors, and team is a priority. Our mental, physical, and spiritual health is key to ensuring that we will have maximum impact in what we create and how we invest.

DuContra Ventures assemble investors, businesspeople, and thinking leaders to produce a return that goes beyond financial gain.

  • Advisor

    2021

    tbh is an honest hazelnut cocoa spread brand on a mission to make snacking more delicious, better for you and better for our planet. Our founder, Noah Schnapp, wanted to replace his favorite chocolatey spread from childhood with something he could feel better about. tbh brings the fun with rich chocolate flavor, the realness with lots of hazelnuts and the good with no palm oil ever. Your toast deserves better ... it’s time to spread the good stuff.

TBH sells hazelnut cocoa spread, snack society hoodies, and snack society sweatpants.

  • Investor & Advisor

    2020

  • Investor

    2020

Vise is an AI-driven investment management platform for financial advisors.

Raised $128,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, GE32 Capital, Ethos VC, Ribbit Capital, Human Capital, TQ Ventures and northstar.vc.

  • Advisor & Investor

    2019

    At Blueland, cleaning up our planet starts with cleaning our homes. Starting with cleaning products - items traditionally sold in disposable plastic bottles, we can eliminate over 100 billion single-use plastic bottles in the US alone because our cleaners live in 100% reusable bottles. Next? At Blueland, we’re innovation-driven and on a mission to reimagine all categories of household packaged goods with innovative form factors and environmentally responsible packaging.

Blueland is a eco-friendly refillable cleaning supply retailer.

Raised $23,000,000.00 from Prelude Growth Partners, Able Partners, Global Founders Capital, Comcast Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Nick Green, Justin Timberlake, Brian Lee, Jennifer Fleiss and Nicolas Jammet.

  • Board Member

    2021

Seeds empowers financial advisors to more deeply understand investors and to automatically deliver custom portfolios that align.

Raised $6,664,998.00 from Ron Pragides, Ritholtz Wealth Management, Bá Minuzzi, DuContra Ventures, Paul Walker, Social Leverage, Adrian Grenier and Alexander Bechelli.

  • Founding Family Member

    2019

    UMANA, Inc is a multi-family office based in San Francisco, CA, that focuses on serving HNWI (High Net Worth Individuals) with a net worth of $10M to $300M. UMANA serves some of the world's most powerful, influential, and misunderstood individuals. From Silicon Valley Tech Founders to Influencers, Conscious Athletes & Celebrities, with the mission of creating and redefining wealth. UMANA is home to a caring and pioneering team that deliver the united capabilities of wealth management, trusted advisor, house of funds, and venture studio. We are redefining the meaning of wealth, forming the most influential, caring, and awakened family in the world. A family by conscious choice.

  • Limited Partner

    2016

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building revolutionary technologies.

  • UN Goodwill Ambassador at United Nations Development Program National Goodwill Ambassador

    2018

    Adrian Grenier has spent many years advocating for environmental and social causes. In recognition of Grenier's work, which includes founding the Lonely Whale foundation to protect the ocean environment, Mr. Grenier was named a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2018.

Free access to all of the trade data available in the UN Comtrade database. The UN Comtrade database contains more than 3.1 billion trade

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