About
Contrabande partners with invested founders to help build strategically significant companies. Our proudest achievements are the growth stories we help create with our partners.
Having created over $1 Billion in equity value over the past decade means we have a proven value creation strategy that works.
Depending on your unique needs and the specifics of your business, adding value can mean different things. Building great businesses always has challenges and we are here to support that evolution; bringing complementary skills to your growth story.
While we invest across a wide variety of industries, geographies, and company sizes, one criteria remains the same: we look for experienced founders with a proven track record of success who have their personal capital invested in the company. We partner when we determine that we share core values and have a common vision for growth.
What We Do
Success in deploying creative + capital depends on ideas that work. To inform, sell, surprise and entertain, we deliver them on brief, on budget and on time. We join the dots by defining the way a brand looks, feels, behaves and connects with people across any touchpoint on the customer journey.
How We Do It
We think big and connect the unexpected. We approach work without assumptions. Powered by a palette of intersectional insights, extreme curiosity, and a culture of collaboration, we unlock the possibilities that exist at the heart of every organization. Guided by exceptional project management and 25 years of agency + investment experience, we make the journey as rewarding as the result.
Who We Serve
We don’t limit our investments to any single industry, and we don’t discriminate based on company size. We’ve worked with hundreds of different clients from bleeding edge start-ups to established institutions, consumer products to placemaking initiatives, non-profits to unicorns. We are servants to our craft, not to margins.
MANIFESTO
Love your craft
We’re here because we love what we do. It’s our passion, hobby, career, and vocation.
Be honest
Don’t be afraid to say what you think. Strong teams are built on different perspectives.
Be bold
There is no top-down. We lead from the bottom and the edges. Everyone drives.
Be better
We’re on a tireless pursuit to become better and expect those around us to do the same.
Ideas over egos
We celebrate ideas over egos, where the best idea wins, regardless of who or where it comes from.