Profit enables purpose. Venn Projects Ltd is built on that principle.
Founded by Matt Granger in 2025, Venn was setup to support companies creating change through hardware development that need fractional and experienced product design engineering support.
The name reflects the expertise of this practice. We specialise in micro mobility and electrical appliances with additional experience in multiple product categories in between.
From vacuum cleaners and air movement products through to quadricycles, e-MTB’s and children’s bicycles. Matt has experience of taking all of the above and more from concept to manufacture with factories in the UK, EU, USA, Vietnam, China and Taiwan. Even picking up a Red Dot Award along the way!
We’re built for early stage ventures and agencies that need that depth of experience without a permanent hire commitment. Available when you need it, redeployed when you don’t.
Matt leads every engagement. Depending on the scope, we’re able to bring in trusted specialists from our network — experienced people who share the same ethos; often having worked alongside us in the past. All assembled around your project and its specific needs.
Two specialisms, one underpinning ethos
Our contracting services specialise in micro mobility and electronic appliances yet with experience in multiple product categories in the space between.
Underpinning all of this is our commitment to achieving profitable business practice with purpose at its heart. Put simply, we understand and encourage the idea that profit enables purpose.
That last point is where the circular economy work comes in. Matt’s been an active contributor to Shift Cycling Culture for over six years, completed the ClimateDrift mid-career accelerator in 2024, and in 2026 was selected for the Design Council’s Design Skills for Embedding Circularity pilot programme, a cohort working to close the gap between product development and the waste management sector.
Big relationships, built for the future
From a micro mobility perspective, Matt has first hand experience of drive unit integration with Mahle Smartbike Systems, CIXI, Bosch, Heinzmann and Yamaha. As a former bicycle industry Head of Product, he also has extensive experience with component supply chains, compliance and strategic product management.
But the world’s changing…
As technology gets more complex, so too has our involvement with the global supply chain. Increasingly, our work involves collaboration with Chinese technology companies moving at an impressive pace.
Having spent a significant amount of time working with tier one electrical appliance factories in Shanghai, we’re prepared and excited for this push.
One Foot in the Boardroom
Matt’s spent 15 years at the sharp end of hardware product development. Not the comfortable, well resourced end. The ambitious, under resourced, attempting-to-shift-industries end. The kind of projects where ambition and volatility go hand in hand.
That’s included a seat at board level within a product-led business navigating some of the most turbulent conditions of the last decade. COVID supply chain disruption, the Evergiven blocking the Suez Canal, product recalls and the brutal economic pressures that followed. Not as an observer, but as someone shaping the decisions that kept the business moving. All whilst delivering a product roadmap.
Matt’s also lived through three significant business restructures in five years. Those weren’t setbacks. They were an education in what separates the ventures that make it from the ones that don’t.
That experience changes how you see everything. It means we understand the commercial pressures, the stakeholder dynamics and the real cost of getting decisions wrong in a way that most external consultants simply don’t.
When we embed into your team, we’re not just delivering a project. We’re prioritising value delivery for your business.
Well connected
Based in central England, we sit on the edge of the UK’s motorsport valley — one of the most concentrated clusters of engineering expertise in the world. London and Birmingham are both an hour by train, Oxford an hour south, and five international airports within easy reach.
Geography is rarely a barrier. We’re comfortable working across sites, time zones and supply chains with clients located all across the globe.
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