Est. 2017

Leopold
Barnett.

We back founders - and we build with them. Capital, engineering and operational muscle to take products from MVP to scale.

About

Investors first.
Builders always.

Leopold Barnett was conceived in 2007 and established in 2017, beginning life as a personal investment vehicle. A decade of backing ideas taught us what founders actually need: not just capital, but hands-on technical and operational firepower.

Today we work side-by-side with founders through our founder-tech practice - accelerating the development of their MVP, productionising and scaling existing product suites, and building the operational teams, systems and technology that carry a startup to scale.

2007

The idea is formed - a conviction that founders deserve more than capital alone.

2017

Leopold Barnett is established, focused on personal investment.

Today

An expanded founder-tech practice - building products, teams and systems alongside the founders we back.

Founder Tech

How we work with founders

01

MVP Development

Accelerate the technical development of your MVP - senior engineering that gets a working product in front of users and investors, fast.

02

Productionise & Scale

Take your existing product suite to production grade - or scale it - with the architecture, reliability and performance real growth demands.

03

Teams & Systems

Scale your startup beyond the product: we help you build the operational team, systems and technology the next stage requires.

MEET

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BUILD

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TEAM

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SCALE

Contact

Tell us what
you're building.

Whether you're raising, building or scaling - enquiries are treated in confidence and answered personally.

Companies we've worked with

Patrick Sun Microsystems Westfield IMC Nasdaq Loaf Markets ReKro