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Don't start what you wouldn't want to do for ten years.
Building to sell makes you choose differently than building to keep.
We build profitable businesses that do real good.
A startup studio. We start some, partner on others.
Our story.
We're Zubin and Evan. For ten years we built LeagueSide, a marketplace connecting national brands with community youth sports organizations. We grew it to eight figures of profitable revenue and helped millions of families keep their kids in sports.
It showed us you don't have to choose between a healthy business and a meaningful one. We sold the company but kept the conviction. WinGrin Ventures is where we partner with operators to build more businesses like that.
We learned a lot in those ten years. Here's what stuck.
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Your business should fit the life you want to live.
If your company demands a life you don't want, you've built the wrong company.
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Profitable beats hype.
Most businesses worth building don't make headlines. They make money, slowly, while doing real work.
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Don't build alone.
Vision is easy. Trust under pressure is rare.
Two ways we work.
Partner with existing operators.
You've got a business with real customers but not enough scale to go full-time. We come in as operating partners and earn equity only when we hit revenue milestones together. You get the full stack of skills we used to scale our last company to eight figures.
Internal incubation.
We start companies that are profitable from day one and aligned with our beliefs. Then we find an operator who wants to run it. They get meaningful equity. We stay actively involved.
Both paths come back to the same goal: profitable businesses that do real good.
What we're working on right now.
A concierge service for finding the right executive or career coach.
Great coaches exist. Finding the right one for you is brutal. We've built a vetted network and a thirty-minute call that hand-matches candidates to the right fit. The goal: become the best, happiest version of yourself at work.
Online peer groups built around shared interests.
The world is more disconnected than ever. We need more places to belong. We're working with experts to build online peer groups around their communities.
If any of this resonates, build with us.
If you're an operator looking for a partner, a founder ready for a co-pilot, or a builder who wants to run something we're starting, we want to hear from you.