A Towergate Capital company
Founders stop building alone.
GridHQ connects the people, capital, intelligence and infrastructure needed to move a company forward. It does not hand you a longer list. It assembles the one move that is actually available to you, and it takes that move away the moment it stops being real.
Patent pending · UK application GB2619192.4 What was filed
The problem
Capital is one line on the list. Execution is the rest.
A cheque solves one of the six things a company needs and leaves the other five to chance. The world got very good at moving money and never got good at moving everything else, so building a company is still done by asking around.
The connections between companies are frequently worth more than the companies on their own. Almost nobody can see them, because nobody is holding all six things in one place.
- TalentThe person who could unblock you this week is eight weeks free and you will never hear about it.
- CapitalMoney arrives late, and by then it arrives on worse terms.
- CustomersSomebody two companies away already sells to the buyer you are chasing.
- KnowledgeThe answer exists inside another company in the same ecosystem, and it is unreachable.
- InfrastructureYou rebuild identity, verification and comms that the group already runs.
- ExecutionMomentum is lost between the decision and the first step, not during the work.
The opportunity engine
Opportunity is not a database entry.
GridHQ assembles an arrangement from parties who each qualify for a named part in it, then keeps checking that they still do. Six steps, and the last two are the ones that matter.
The parties
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A requirement, not a profile
A company states what it actually needs: a named role and an amount, with a date attached to both.
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Who qualifies for a part in it
GridHQ looks across the ecosystem for parties who qualify for a part they would have to play.
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Whether it works as one arrangement
Four qualifying parties are not four introductions. They either work together or they do not.
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One move, and the first step
You are shown the opportunity, who is in it and what to do first. Not a feed to scroll.
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A condition changes
One party is no longer qualified for the part they would have played. Nothing about them was announced.
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Withdrawn, then reassembled
The arrangement is taken away before anyone acts on it, and GridHQ looks for the party who could take that part instead.
An arrangement is only shown while every party in it still qualifies. That check is not run once.
Finding a match is the easy half. Knowing that it is still real, and taking it away without exposing anybody, is the half we filed on. How GridHQ works, in full
Who GridHQ is for
Both sides of the same network.
A company is only matchable if the capital, the operators and the routes to market are in the same system. GridHQ is built to be joined from either end.
Founders
Building a company that should exist.
Capital, operators, engineers, customers and the infrastructure you would otherwise build twice.
For foundersInvestors
Looking for signal before the deck arrives.
Companies matched to a real mandate, with the reason they match stated, and withdrawn when they stop matching.
For investorsOperators
Between things, or building on the side.
A named part in a specific arrangement rather than a job board, and the companies that need exactly what you have done before.
Apply as an operatorPartners
A route to market, or a corporate mandate.
Access to companies at the point where a distribution agreement is worth more to them than another cheque.
Apply as a partnerThe platform
One system, not five products.
The parts are only useful because they are the same system. Matching is worth little without memory, and intelligence is noise without the work it is reading.
Work
Where the building actually happens.
Companies, projects, documents and milestones in one place, so the platform is reading real work rather than a profile somebody filled in once.
- Companies
- Projects
- Tasks
- Documents
- Builds
- Milestones
Intelligence
A briefing, not an empty inbox.
What changed, what shipped, what is blocked and what should happen next, for your company and for the ecosystem around it.
- What changed
- What shipped
- What is blocked
- What happens next
Matching
The people a company needs next.
Founders, operators, engineers, advisors, investors and routes to market, matched to a named part in a specific arrangement.
- Founders
- Operators
- Engineers
- Advisors
- Investors
- Routes to market
Memory
The company stops forgetting why.
Decisions, meetings, documents and the context around them, so the reason a choice was made does not leave with the person who made it.
- Decisions
- Meetings
- Documents
- Context
- Institutional knowledge
Capital
Funding, before it becomes urgent.
Requirements, investor interest, mandates and grant deadlines, held against what the company is actually building.
- Funding requirements
- Investor interest
- Mandates
- Grant deadlines
- Introductions
The ecosystem
Built on infrastructure the group already runs.
GridHQ does not invent its own idea of who somebody is. Identity, verification and correspondence are live products with their own filings, and a company built in the Grid inherits all three on day one rather than building them twice.
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Capital
Towergate Capital
The parent company. It provides the capital, the mandate and the network. GridHQ is where its companies are built.
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Identity
Confrmo
Establishes that a person or a company is who they claim to be, and keeps checking that it is still true.
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Verification
VCode
Visual verification infrastructure. A mark on a document or an object that anyone can check with a phone.
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Communications
Couri
Correspondence that carries proof of who sent it, so an introduction cannot be impersonated after the fact.
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Workforce
NeedA
Verified healthcare staffing, built inside the ecosystem on identity it did not have to build itself.
5 companies, each with a site that resolves and a role that is load bearing. What each one does
The journey
Discover to compound, in nine stages.
GridHQ knows which stage a company is in, and what the next one needs before it needs it. Select a stage.
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You find GridHQ, or somebody already inside it points you at us.
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You tell us what you are building and what is in the way. It takes a few minutes.
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We work out whether this is a company, whether now is the time, and what it needs first.
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Your company enters the Grid, with its requirements stated rather than implied.
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Engineering, hiring and the infrastructure you do not have to build twice.
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GridHQ assembles the arrangements that are available to you, and withdraws the ones that stop being real.
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Capital, operators and introductions arrive attached to a first step rather than a maybe.
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Repeatable revenue, the second market, and the third.
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What your company learned becomes something the next company in the Grid can use.
Discover
You find GridHQ, or somebody already inside it points you at us.
Technology
Keeping an opportunity honest is the hard part.
Matching is a solved problem and a crowded one. What is not solved is what happens after the match, when one of the people in it quietly stops being the person the arrangement assumed. That is what Towergate Capital filed on.
Network system for managing multi-party arrangements
An opportunity that depends on several people stops being an opportunity the moment one of them is no longer who they were. GridHQ withdraws it before anyone acts on it, and does so without telling the others whose circumstances changed.
- Application
- GB2619192.4
- Office
- United Kingdom
- Filed
- Inventor
- Louis-James Davis
- Applicant
- Towergate Capital Ltd
- Platform
- GridHQ
A UK patent application is not a granted patent. It secures a filing date while the invention is examined, and it may be amended, refused or withdrawn. GridHQ is patent pending. It is not patented, and this site will not say that it is until the register says so.
Built by Towergate Capital.
Towergate Capital is an investment and venture platform in Manchester. It provides the capital, the mandate and the network, and it owns the patent application behind GridHQ. GridHQ is the execution layer: where its companies are actually built.
What could move your company forward?
Tell us what you are building and what is stopping it. It takes a few minutes, it is read by a person, and if GridHQ can move something for you, you will hear the specific reason why rather than a form response.
Join the Grid.