About
Contrabande partners with founders to build companies that change the game. We invest where conviction meets strategy - helping bold ideas become enduring growth stories.
We’ve spent the past decade helping founders turn strong businesses into exceptional ones. Our approach is hands-on, focused, and built on experience - not theory.
Value means different things to different founders. For some, it’s scaling fast. For others, it’s sharpening strategy, building teams, or finding the right capital partners. Whatever the challenge, we bring the perspective, discipline, and support to help it happen.
We invest across industries and stages, but we always look for the same thing - founders with skin in the game, a track record of execution, and a shared vision for growth. When we partner, we commit fully. That’s how lasting companies are built.
What We Do
We partner with founders who play to win. Contrabande builds companies that matter - strategically significant, market-shaping, and built to last. We don’t chase trends. We back conviction, character, and ideas with the power to move industries forward.
How We Do It
We roll up our sleeves. Strategy, capital, and execution all matter but alignment matters more. We bring the hard-won experience, deep operational insight, and clarity of thought that help founders move faster and smarter. When we commit, we commit fully, no half measures, no passive capital.
Who We Serve
Founders with skin in the game. Builders who’ve proven they can execute and are ready to level up. We partner with teams who share our bias for action, clarity of vision, and appetite for impact. Geography and sector don’t define us - ambition does.
MANIFESTO
Obsess over the work.
This isn’t a job - it’s the craft. The late nights, the hard calls, the quiet breakthroughs. We’re here because we love building things that matter.
Say it straight.
Truth beats harmony. The best teams argue well, decide fast, and move forward together.
Never stay still.
Progress is oxygen. We test, learn, and push again and again - because momentum builds mastery.
Kill the ego. Keep the idea.
We chase outcomes, not credit. The best idea wins, always.
Build like it matters.
Because it does. Every company we touch should make a dent - strategically, commercially, culturally.