Jonathan Lenson

Weve seeded impactful founders since 1999 at places like Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Wise and Zoopla. Londons just getting started.

Weve seeded impactful founders since 1999 at places like Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Wise and Zoopla. Londons just getting started.

Bruin is a privately-held investment and operating company specializing in working with capital partners and management teams to build best-in-class, global-leading sports, entertainment, media and technology companies. Bruin was uniquely crafted to be a catalyst for global expansion and rapid transformation. What sets it apart is its decades of experience and global relationships across these sectors; combined with an exemplary track record for creating billions in shareholder value and a resource set available to management teams to accelerate their trajectory. The team has run media conglomerates, sports at the highest level, and has an unparalleled ability to recognize value where others may not. All of this is supplemented by a long-term capital and resource partnership with the world’s largest private equities and a group of prestigious family offices to support every combination of growth strategy including M&A, JV, global expansion, etc. With that, Bruin does not think or operate as a traditional investor that relies on short-term, financial engineering to manufacture growth. Instead, its mission is to be a value-adding partner that produces measurable, definable value on top of investment. Ultimately, Bruin offers a new paradigm on conventional notions of an investment partner. It was built for this era with uncompromising values, a fast-acting DNA and a commitment to partners to deliver measurable contributions to their growth and success – beyond capital.

Milltown Partners is a global advisory firm working with influential organisations and individuals on the communications and public policy challenges that define their reputations. Our clients are leaders in their field: groundbreaking technology companies and their founders; global businesses and their CEOs; prominent individuals and renowned institutions. Technology and innovation are at the heart of our business and problem-solving approach, and we root our strategies in data insights and research on the audiences that matter, messages that work, and communications channels that deliver. We work as one team to ensure our clients can draw on our collective experience. The advice of our teams in London, San Francisco and New York is informed by everyone from our accomplished analysts to the founding partners, including leaders who have joined us from respected advisory firms as well as senior positions at Google, WhatsApp, The Royal Household, Uber, the British Government, Airbnb, the Financial Times, Manchester United or the BBC. By combining our breadth of experience, deep sector-specific knowledge and a research-driven approach, we help our clients analyse and solve their most important communications challenges. We are an Employee Ownership Trust. The people that work here own the company and share in its success. Were fully independent and will remain so. That means we can continue to do what weve always done: take the long view, build a business aligned to our values, invest in our people and their development, and innovate to improve the quality of our advice.

Built on the backs of highly specialized sports and media entrepreneurs and investors, we look to utilize our industry networks and deep domain knowledge to bring unparalleled value to our companies. We build long-term partnerships with management, by providing ongoing strategic support across all aspects of operations.

At PwC, we help clients drive their companies to the leading edge. We’re a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 370,000 people in 149 countries. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting we help build, accelerate and sustain momentum. Find out more at www.pwc.com. PwC: Audit and assurance, consulting and tax services PwC refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Content on this page has been prepared for general information only and is not intended to be relied upon as accounting, tax or professional advice. Please reach out to your advisors for specific advice.