Venture studio · Holding company

Human-first.
AI-enabled.

Growth Science Capital builds, funds, and operates a portfolio of companies united by a single question: how does this meaningfully improve human lives?

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Mission

Build companies
that meaningfully improve human lives.

Approach

Deep human expertise
at the intersection of intelligent automation. Always in that order.

Portfolio

Five ventures
grouped as Direct Mission and Mission Multiplier.

01 Transform → 02 Illuminate → 03 Amplify
About us

The science of growing businesses.
The growth of the people they serve.

GSC is not a traditional holding company, and not a typical venture studio. We operate as an end-to-end incubator and operator whose only clients are the companies we build and own.

That focus lets us pour our full infrastructure, capital, and expertise into each venture's success — without external client work or the dilutions of a broad investment thesis.

Our two meanings of growth are inseparable. The growth of the business and the flourishing of the humans the business serves are measured against the same question.

01 / Filter

Transformative
problem-solving

The venture must positively transform human lives — building peace, enabling growth, deepening connection.

02 / Filter

Constitutionally
human

The core service must not be deliverable without human presence, emotion, voice, and touch. AI augments. People transform.

03 / Filter

Original
synthesis

A novel synthesis of disciplines, or an execution that does not exist in its current form anywhere in the market.

Ventures

Five companies.
One thesis.

Each venture answers the universal filter: how does this improve people's lives? Direct Mission ventures change people. Mission Multiplier ventures ensure that change reaches more of them.

Direct Mission

Pollack Peacebuilding Systems

Workplace Peacebuilding

Conflict resolution and peacebuilding for teams and leaders — the rare service that does not survive without humans in the room.

Glial Solutions

Co-Regulation for Teams

Nervous system science applied to organizational performance. We treat companies as macro nervous systems that need to regulate, together.

Mission Multiplier

Thought Marketing Agency

Done-for-you Authority

A done-for-you content engine for mission-driven voices — built around the mission itself, not the funnel.

WonderBuilt

Fractional AI Imagination Lab

A creative AI consultancy for mission-driven organizations — answering the question of what becomes possible that wasn't before.

Levantage AI Advisors

Helping Mission-Based Firms

We help mission-based legal teams reclaim time by guiding the practical, responsible integration of AI into the work that matters most.

Team

A small core,
deliberately built.

GSC runs lean by design. Six operators carry the backbone — the mission filter, systems, revenue, finance, marketing, and exit strategy — so each venture reaches operational readiness within 120 days and a clear path to the right ending.

Jeremy Pollack

Jeremy Pollack

Chief Executive Officer

Founder and operator. Sets the mission filter and chairs each venture's first 120 days.

Douglas Campbell

Douglas Campbell

Chief Systems & Innovation Officer

Architects the AI and operational backbone that makes every venture punch above its weight.
Justin McLennan

Justin McLennan

Chief Revenue Officer

Builds the revenue infrastructure. Specificity over hype, conviction over conversion-tactics.
Ryan Shackelford

Ryan Shackelford

Chief Financial Officer

Centralizes finance across the portfolio. Disciplined growth, EBITDA-aware, never short-termist.
Andrew DeGryse

Andrew DeGryse

Chief Marketing Officer

Leads brand and amplification across the GSC ecosystem. Story as strategy, signal over volume.
Jake Miles

Jake Miles

Chief Exit Strategy Officer

Designs the exit pathway for each venture. Maximizes value at the right moment, never at the cost of mission.
Contact

Tell us what
you're building.

We talk with prospective founding operators, mission-aligned partners, and organizations whose work intersects with ours. Send us the real version of the thing — we'll write back the same way.

Operator inquiries

If you're considering joining a portfolio venture as a founding operator, say so in your note. We'll be candid about tradeoffs.

We don't serve

Pure-extraction projects. Efficiency-without-benefit projects. AI deployments meant to compress or replace the humans in the system.

We read every note. We reply when there's something real to say.