The exit · Grant funding

Grantify Private equity

Hayat Amin, Chief Strategy Officer. Covered by BDO.

Grantify became one of the largest grant platforms in the world. 66% of all successful Innovate UK grants ran through it.

As Chief Strategy Officer, Hayat grew sales 200% year over year for three years straight on a pricing and customer intelligence engine, and put the KPI and OKR architecture in place. Operational performance rose 32% globally.

He led the company into private equity, building the financial model, budget and business case behind the deal.

That case defended a 35% valuation uplift on the way out, and the platform went on to be the 46th fastest growing company of 2024.

The lesson

The valuation uplift was not negotiated, it was built: model, budget and business case the other side could test and could not break.

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