A smiling man with glasses and a shaved head wearing a black shirt with the "VENN PROJECTS" logo stands against a plain white wall.

VENN was founded by Matt Granger after 12 years in product design engineering. Matt has worked globally with product-led businesses and manufacturers including EAV Cargo, KTM, Vax, JLR, Imperial Innovations, Britannia Pharmaceuticals, and Islabikes.

His career spans:

  • 4 years delivering client projects within design consultancies

  • 8 years leading projects for multi-national in-house R&D and NPD teams

  • Developing and selling the rights to his own product innovations

In 2021, Matt’s team won a RedDot Design Award for the Islabikes e-Icons range. He went on to complete Google’s Project Management course (2023) and became an alum of ClimateDrift’s Working-in-Climate accelerator (2024).

He founded VENN to explore a better way of building creative engineering teams.

Today’s complex, fast-changing economy demands flexibility – the ability to overlay the right expertise at the right time.

That’s what VENN is all about.

Value & impact focussed

Running a hardware-oriented business is a challenging feat in today’s economic climate.

Brands are having to contend with:

  1. Rising Costs, Shrinking Margins & Resource Reduction

  2. Competing with SaaS and AI for Investment

  3. Shortened Product Lifecycles

  4. Aggressive Fast Followers

  5. Broad, Often-Opposed & Evolving Consumer Expectations

  6. Shifting Regulatory Frameworks

We’ve experienced these challenges first-hand and recognise the impact that a structured & focussed approach to project delivery can have on a business’s ability to navigate these challenges.

Using our training in Lean thinking and experience in small D2C’s and startups, we push to minimise waste & maximise impact wherever possible.

Colorful metal bicycle frames on display in a warehouse or store.
Three orange industrial vacuum cleaners on a production line in a warehouse, with shelves and boxes in the background.
Close-up of an electronic circuit board with multiple colorful wires, relays, and a breadboard connected to a blue device, likely a relay module, on a white surface.
Close-up of an electric bicycle with a Bosch PowerPack 500 battery being inserted or removed, outdoors on a concrete surface with grass and fallen leaves.

Adapting to a changing landscape

The tools that we use to develop products, the speed at which milestones can be reached, and the complexity of the products themselves are rapidly changing with the democratisation of technology.

Our setup is purposefully lightweight and agile to allow us to evaluate, pivot and leverage this period of intense change.

Mission driven

Our ambition is to use our influence in shaping the inception and manufacture of physical products to benefit global society, the environment and nature.

Whilst not limited to this space, this is why you will often find us gravitating towards micro-mobility, active travel, electrification and climate adaptation projects.

A street-cleaning electric vehicle with a shovel mounted on the back, parked on a bridge with a railing and trees in the background.
Disassembled orange bicycle frame and various bicycle parts arranged on a cardboard surface, including wheels, pedals, handlebars, and small components.
A grassy hill with a small stone tower at the top under a clear blue sky.
A man walking outdoors carrying a folded bicycle in his right hand, wearing beige shorts, a black T-shirt, and athletic shoes.

Well connected

We are located in central England inbetween the UK’s two largest cities; London and Birmingham - right on the edge of the infamous ‘motorsport valley’.

Both London Marylebone and Birmingham New Street are 1 hour away by train; the M40 is on our doorstep; Oxford is 1 hour South and we have two international airports within a 90 minute drive.

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