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Granite Ventures

Founders Chris Hollenbeck Jackie Berterretche Standish O'Grady

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Total investments 170
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$17M
Portfolio companies 86
Rounds per year 5.48
Lead investments 26
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 53
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Manufacturing
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Airspace Systems

Computer Vision
Drones
Robotics
$5M18 Nov 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Marqeta

FinTech
Payments
Transaction Processing
$25M27 Oct 2015 Oakland, California, United States

Motiv

Electronics
Hardware
Mobile Apps
Software
Wearables
Web Apps
$8M14 Sep 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Fastback Networks

Infrastructure
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$15M22 Jan 2015 San Jose, California, United States

Agilence

Cloud Computing
Computer
Enterprise Software
Food and Beverage
Retail
Software
Video
$1M20 Nov 2014 New Jersey, United States

Sense Platform

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Computing
$1M01 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Hobo Labs

Apps
Mobile
PC Games
$4M02 Sep 2014 Berkeley, California, United States

Survios

Gaming
Hardware
Virtual Reality
$4M19 May 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

AirPair

Internet
Software
14 Mar 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 170
Average round size 17M
Rounds per year 5.48
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 26
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 53
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Airspace Systems

Computer Vision
Drones
Robotics
$5M18 Nov 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Marqeta

FinTech
Payments
Transaction Processing
$25M27 Oct 2015 Oakland, California, United States

Motiv

Electronics
Hardware
Mobile Apps
Software
Wearables
Web Apps
$8M14 Sep 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Fastback Networks

Infrastructure
Mobile
Mobile Apps
$15M22 Jan 2015 San Jose, California, United States

Agilence

Cloud Computing
Computer
Enterprise Software
Food and Beverage
Retail
Software
Video
$1M20 Nov 2014 New Jersey, United States

Sense Platform

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Computing
$1M01 Oct 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

Hobo Labs

Apps
Mobile
PC Games
$4M02 Sep 2014 Berkeley, California, United States

Survios

Gaming
Hardware
Virtual Reality
$4M19 May 2014 Los Angeles, California, United States

AirPair

Internet
Software
14 Mar 2014 San Francisco, California, United States
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