Granite Ventures

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Granite Ventures

Company type	Private
Industry	Private equity
Founded	1992; 32 years ago (1992)
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Products	Venture capital
Total assets	US$1,000,000,000
Number of employees	20+
Website	granitevc.com

Granite Ventures is a venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, California. Granite's predecessor H&Q Venture Associates, founded in 1992, was the venture capital investment arm of Hambrecht & Quist, a leading technology oriented investment bank. Granite completed a spinout from H&Q when the bank was sold to Chase Manhattan Bank in 1999.^[1]

Since its founding, Granite has raised over $1 billion in investor commitments and has invested in more than 90 companies. In 2005, the firm raised Granite Ventures II, its second fund since completing its spinout in 2000, with $350 million of investor commitments.^[2]

Granite's investment professionals include: Chris Hollenbeck, Chris McKay, Standish O'Grady and Eric Zimits.^{[citation needed]}

Granite has backed such companies as Anaplan, Tumbleweed Communications, Plumtree Software, Sendmail, Workboard, and Westbridge Technology.

Its investments also include Airbnb,^[3] Aspen Avionics,^{[citation needed]} HyTrust,^[4] Lucidworks,^{[citation needed]} Survios,^{[citation needed]} and Telltale Games.^{[citation needed]}

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