Grownt Global is Grownt's international arm. We take Latin American leaders into the operating core of the world's most advanced companies and come back with a plan their company can fund, approve and execute.
3Countries where the group operates: Brazil, Portugal and Colombia
40Leaders per cohort. Closed room, one mentor per table.
1:1One action plan per participant, not per cohort
USPrograms operated by a US entity, incorporated in Florida
Applied artificial intelligenceR&D tax incentivesInnovation fundingM&AVenture buildingInternational expansionDigital transformationBoard and governanceCross-border capitalApplied artificial intelligenceR&D tax incentivesInnovation fundingM&AVenture buildingInternational expansionDigital transformationBoard and governanceCross-border capital
Why Grownt
Three differences that change the outcome
The executive immersion market is full of agenda and short on consequence. Our premise is different: the program is only over when there is a decision with an owner, a deadline and a budget.
A plan for your next decision
Every participant leaves with an individual action plan, written during the sessions and reviewed by a mentor. It gives them a prepared agenda for their next board meeting.
Experience from client work
Grownt makes its living executing: R&D tax incentives, innovation funding, M&A and digital transformation. What we teach in the room is what we apply for clients on Monday morning.
A confidential working group
Cohorts of forty leaders, a mentor at every table and confidentiality as the rule. Much of the value of an immersion sits in the person next to you, which is why the cohort is curated.
Grownt Academy
Four programs, one standard
Small cohorts, curated participants and a deliverable your company can actually process. All programs are operated by Grownt Global LLC.
01
AI Executive Circle
National immersion · 2 days
2 days40 leadersOne mentor per tableC-level, innovation directors and owners
The core of Grownt Academy. Forty leaders, a closed room, one mentor per table. Two days to move artificial intelligence off the committee agenda and into a decision with an owner, a deadline and a budget.
What you take with you
An AI maturity diagnosis of your operation
A use-case map prioritised by return and effort
An individual action plan reviewed by a mentor before you leave the room
A reading of the funding path that applies to your case
02
Frontier Immersion · Silicon Valley
International immersion · 5 days
5 daysSan Francisco and Silicon ValleySmall groupDaily translation session
A week inside the system that produces the frontier: AI companies, funds, labs and operators. This is not a sightseeing route. It is a working agenda, and every day ends with a session translating what you saw into your own business.
What you take with you
A curated agenda of companies, funds and operators, not auditoriums
A daily session translating the content into your P&L
An innovation thesis ready to take to your board
A map of qualified partners, vendors and targets
03
Frontier Immersion · China
International immersion · 5 days
5 daysShanghai, Hangzhou and ShenzhenSmall groupDaily translation session
Five days inside the country that turned industrial scale into a technology advantage. Smart manufacturing in Shanghai, artificial intelligence and robotics in Hangzhou, hardware and electric mobility in Shenzhen. It is a working agenda with the universities, labs and companies that set the pace of the sector, and every day ends with a session translating what you saw into your own business.
What you take with you
Three online sessions before departure to map your case and understand the organisations you will meet
A curated agenda of universities, labs and companies, not auditoriums
A daily session translating the content into your P&L
An individual action plan and a benchmarking report with cooperation opportunities
Optional extension to the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, under an hour from Shenzhen.
04
Board & In-Company
Closed program · Tailored
Tailored formatIn person or hybridBrazil, Portugal, Colombia and the USContractual confidentiality
The same method, designed for a board, an executive committee or a leadership team. The content is built on your industry, your numbers and the decisions that have been stuck for too long.
What you take with you
A prior diagnosis based on leadership interviews
A program designed around your pending decisions
An action plan per area, with an owner and a deadline
Execution follow-up, available under a separate engagement
Continues into execution, with the funding path mapped
An operator who executes what they teach
The Grownt method
Four stages, one consequence
The method is the same across every program, from the two-day circle to a closed board engagement. The content changes; the requirement to leave with a decision does not.
01
Diagnosis
Before the immersion. A maturity questionnaire and interviews with the leadership team. You arrive with your case already mapped, so the room doesn't waste time on the generic.
02
Immersion
Closed room, one mentor per table. Content, real cases and challenge. Every block ends in a written decision, never in a loose note.
03
Plan
The deliverable is an individual action plan: what changes, who owns it, by when and at what cost. Reviewed by a mentor before you leave the room.
04
Funded execution
Where there is innovation, there is a funding mechanism. We map the path that applies and, if you want, Grownt runs the fundraising.
This is the structural difference between Grownt and any business school. We do not stop at the plan. Grownt is, at its origin, a firm built on R&D tax incentives, innovation funding and M&A. When the plan you wrote in the room involves eligible innovation, there is a funding path, and we know that path because it is what we do every day.
Eligibility depends on the specific case. A preliminary reading is part of the program; execution is contracted separately.
Lei do Bem
Brazil's tax incentive for research, development and technological innovation.
Finep
Credit and grants for innovation projects, including subsidised lines.
Mover
Brazil's green mobility and innovation program for the automotive chain.
M&A and capital
When the answer is not to build, but to buy, partner or raise.
Innovation that never reaches the budget is just conversation. Our obsession is what happens on Monday.
Diego Teixeira · CEO and founding partner, Grownt
Who leads
The people behind Grownt
Diego Teixeira and Fabrizio Gammino founded Grownt and run Grownt Global LLC. The programs are led by executives who answer for results inside companies.
Founder, Grownt · Managing Member, Grownt Global LLC
Attorney admitted in Brazil and Portugal. He took part in the approval of more than R$ 7 billion in R&D projects and writes a column for Jornal do Brasil.
Over 20 years in practice. Business administrator (FGV), certified accountant and IBGC fiscal board member. Co-founder of GT Group, a firm of about 300 professionals.
Portuguese or English, depending on the cohort. In international immersions, sessions with companies and funds are in English, with translation support when needed, and Grownt's working sessions run in the cohort's language.
Who can take part?
C-level executives, directors, board members, partners and owners. There is curation: the cohort is selected, among other reasons, to avoid direct competitors in the same room and to keep the level of conversation high.
Does the investment include flights and accommodation?
No. The investment covers the program, materials, agenda, mentors and working sessions. Flights and accommodation are the participant's responsibility, with a recommended hotel at a negotiated rate.
Can my company use tax incentives to pay for the program?
It depends on the specific case. When the program forms part of an eligible research, development or innovation project, there are mechanisms that apply. Grownt provides that preliminary reading before enrolment, at no cost.
Is the invoice issued in Brazil or in the United States?
International programs can be invoiced from Brazil or from the United States, whichever suits you better. Grownt Global LLC invoices in US dollars out of Florida and the Brazilian operation invoices in reais. We settle this in the conversation before enrolment, according to your structure.
How does enrolment work?
You submit an application through the site, we have a twenty-minute conversation to understand your context and confirm fit, and only then is your place confirmed. Small cohorts require that filter.
The next cohort is small by design
If you are accountable for an innovation decision that has stalled, start with the application. The twenty-minute conversation is free and exists so both sides can decide whether it makes sense.
