Rich Grant

Rich Grant is a Managing Director at Cerity Partners Ventures, formerly Touchdown Ventures, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He co-founded Touchdown Ventures in 2014, scaling the corporate venture capital firm to a team of over 30 professionals managing between 50 and 80 portfolio companies before its September 2024 merger with Cerity Partners. Prior to this, Grant spent seven years in venture capital and strategic development at Comcast, where he helped launch Comcast Ventures. His earlier career includes corporate development at Sony Pictures and investment banking at Lehman Brothers, which is complemented by an MBA from The Wharton School and a BA from UC Santa Barbara. Grant currently focuses on partnering with large corporations like T-Mobile and Kellogg's to structure and execute their corporate venture capital programs across the technology, media, and consumer sectors.