| Building on a foundation of experience and partnerships, Granite Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm focused on investment opportunities in two sectors, communications and software, where we have deep specialized knowledge and significant industry and investment expertise.
Based in San Francisco, Granite manages over $650 million in committed venture capital and has invested in over 80 private companies in the software and communications sectors. In addition to Granite Ventures, L.P., a $150 million fund raised in December 2000, Granite manages a series of venture capital funds in dedicated partnerships with Adobe Systems Incorporated and Texas Instruments Incorporated.
Granite places great value on these unique partnerships and views these relationships as competitive and strategic advantages relative to other venture capital firms. Granite is able to leverage its partnerships with these organizations to gain technical and market insights, generate differentiated deal flow, and facilitate relationships between these technology industry leaders and its portfolio companies.
Granite also has a close working relationship with J.P. Morgan H&Q (previously Hambrecht & Quist), which is an investor in certain of our funds. This relationship provides contacts and industry expertise that enables Granite to access financial and other support for our portfolio companies.
Since its inception in 1998, and previously as a group within Hambrecht & Quist, Granite's team of investment professionals has a history of backing leading companies, such as: Digimarc (NASDAQ:DMRC), DigitalThink (acquired by Convergys Systems), InfoGear (acquired by Cisco), InterNAP (AMEX:IIP), NetBoost (acquired by Intel), Nexabit (acquired by Lucent), Siebel Systems (NASDAQ:SEBL), Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ:SWIR), SnapTrack (acquired by Qualcomm), Tumbleweed Communications (NASDAQ:TMWD) and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). |
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