Granite Ventures

Total investments

170

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

86

Rounds per year

5.48

Lead investments

26

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

53

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturingCloud ComputingVideoSemiconductorWireless

Summary

Granite Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1992. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Information Technology, Internet. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Marqeta, Anaplan, Sirna Therapeutics Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

This organization was formed by Chris Hollenbeck, Jackie Berterretche, Standish O'Grady. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The important activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this VC is 1 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2010. This Granite Ventures works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Granite Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Granite Ventures, startups are often financed by Intel Capital, Greylock Partners, Foundation Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Foundation Capital, InterWest Partners, Trident Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Austin Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundation Capital.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
170
Lead investments
26
Exits
53
Rounds per year
5.48
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Software (74)
  • SaaS (29)
  • Information Technology (29)
  • Enterprise Software (29)
  • Manufacturing (19)
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Investments by region
  • United States (165)
  • Canada (4)
  • Israel (1)
Peak activity year
2007
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
19
Avg. valuation at time of investment
123M
Group Appearance index
0.97
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
1.83
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Localmind 13 Jul 2011 Apps, Real Time, Location Based Services Seed 600K United States, California, San Francisco

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