Granite Hill
Venture capitalActively deployingSilicon Valley · Pre-Seed–Series A · 4 people tracked
Also known as GRANITE HILL CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC
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Investment thesis
Granite Hill Capital Partners backs technology-driven companies across cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, big data, and financial services. Its themes center on access, technology and teams, and innovation, and its portfolio spans both U.S. and India-based businesses. The firm has supported companies through growth and to outcomes including acquisitions and IPOs.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 29, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's websiteWhat they invest in
from 17 of 25 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×10AI & Machine Learning ×8Cybersecurity ×8Fintech ×5Data & Infrastructure ×3SaaS ×3Consumer ×2Deep Tech ×2
HQs:United States×9India×6
Who they back
founder profiles across 13 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×43 founders×14+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with education data
Stanford University ×4
What their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×6Engineering ×5Business & Management ×4Humanities ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 12 founders with career history
Adentro ×2
Investments · 25 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2018 · 12016 · 12 dated
Palantir builds data integration and analysis platforms — Gotham for defence and government, Foundry for commercial operations — and deploys forward engineers inside customer organisations.
Palo Alto, US
Peter Thiel(Co-founder and Chairman)inStephen Cohen(Co-founder and President)Nathan Gettings(Co-founder)Joe Lonsdale(Co-founder)inAlexander C. Karp(Co-founder and CEO)
BoardColin Anderson(Executive Officer)in
Co-investors137 Ventures8VCA*AiSprouts VCAkkadian VenturesAllied Venture Partners+67 more
SentinelOne provides an AI-powered cybersecurity platform for enterprises that integrates endpoint protection, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Tomer Weingarten(Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder)inAlmog Cohen(Executive Officer, Director)inSameet Mehta(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardRobert Schwartz(Director)Dan Scheinman(Director)
Co-investorsDCVC (Data Collective)Everest GroupFoothill VenturesInsight PartnersKhosla VenturesLobby Capital+15 more
Airspace provides end-to-end airspace protection solutions for urban environments, critical infrastructure, large-scale events, and high-security zones.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeep TechDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareGovTech
Co-investorsDBL PartnersDefy PartnersHarbourVest Partners (Canada)Levensohn Venture PartnersScale Venture PartnersScale Ventures+2 more
Aptus is a housing finance company in India that provides home loans to self-employed, low- and middle-income customers in the informal segment who often lack standard income documentation.
Fintech
M Anandan(Executive Director & Chairman)Balaji P(Managing Director)
Co-investorsWestBridge CapitalLok CapitalPeak XV Partners
India's leading e-waste and lithium-ion battery recycling company.
Co-investorsKalaari Capital
Aura provides AI-powered digital security and protection services for families and individuals across all ages.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCybersecurityDigital HealthWellness & FitnessBoston, US
Hari Ravichandran(Founder and CEO)inBrian DeCenzo(President & Chief Financial Officer)inThomas Clayton(President & Chief Operating Officer)Adam Medros(Chief Product Officer)inSarah Cherng(Chief AI Officer)Kristin Lewis(Chief Product Officer (prior to May 2026 CPO reorganization; promoted from SVP Product, May 2022))in
Co-investorsAccelGeneral CatalystMachina VenturesPartech VenturesSignalFireTen Eleven+2 more
A global education company operating across multiple segments since 1996, serving learners and institutions through products designed to improve educational outcomes and operational efficiency.
AdTechEdTechNot stated, IN
Satya Narayanan R(Founder)in
Craxel builds Black Forest, a data infrastructure platform that consolidates an organization's fragmented data into a unified, AI-ready knowledge asset and enables real-time contextualized queries and knowledge graphs at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareFairfax, US
David Enga(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inGreg Webb(Executive Officer, Promoter)inJanelle Kellman(Executive Officer, Promoter)Tom Foladare(Executive Officer, Promoter)
BoardAndrew Gilbert(Director)Ernest Stern(Director)
Efflux provides asset intelligence by scanning and mapping the assets, networks, and services of organizations, offering raw data alongside formatted insights with full transparency into how findings were discovered.
CybersecurityData & Infrastructure
Co-investorsThree Tree Ventures
Imubit builds an Industrial AI platform for Coordinated Operating Strategies (COS) that makes plant operational decisions visible, testable, and supervised through automation.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Nadav Cohen(Executive Officer, Director)inGil Cohen(CEO & Co-founder)inGilad Cohen(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMichael Neril(Director)inMeir Tseitlin(Director)in
Co-investorsAlpha Wave GlobalLumir VenturesSpider CapitalSummit Peak InvestmentsSummit Peak VenturesUpWest+1 more
Manappuram is a financial services company that provides gold loans, housing loans, business loans, and other lending products to retail and business customers in India.
Enterprise SoftwareFintech
V.P. Nandakumar(CMD)
Co-investorsSequoia CapitalPeak XV Partners
NAFA (Netafim Agricultural Financing Agency) is a Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) promoted by Netafim Group that provides loans and financial solutions to stakeholders in the micro-irrigation value chain, primarily smallholder farmers and small and medium rural agri enterprises.
AgTechFintechImpact & Social GoodSector AgnosticIndia, IN
Prabhat Chaturvedi(Chief Executive Officer)inCharu Kapur(Chief Financial Officer)inVijay Singh(Chief Financial Officer)inVishal Nagadiya(Chief Technology Officer)
Co-investorsCogito CapitalPhoenix Group
Proofpoint provides cybersecurity and compliance software that protects organizations' people, data, cloud environments, and email from advanced cyber threats.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Ashan Willy(CEO)Sumit Dhawan(Chief Executive Officer)Rémi Thomas(Chief Financial Officer)Kim Sullivan(Chief People Officer)Mayank Choudhary(EVP and GM, Information Protection, Cloud Security & Compliance Products Group)Tom Corn(EVP and GM, Threat Protection Group)
Co-investorsCrane Venture PartnersDag VenturesElevate VenturesFrazier Healthcare PartnersGamutGlynn Capital Management+12 more
ORFIL is a Reserve Bank of India-registered non-banking financial company providing affordable financing products for two-wheelers and micro mortgage loans against property to semi-urban and rural communities across India.
FintechRetail TechChennai, IN
Kiran M Vedula(Chief Business and Operations Officer)inArulanandam C(Chief Technology Officer)Saravanan Kandan(Chief Financial Officer)
A cyber risk management platform that combines security expertise, software, and insurance products to help organizations make better decisions about cyber risk.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareInsurTech
Vishaal Hariprasad(Co-Founder & CEO)inMario P Vitalein
Co-investors137 VenturesCRV (Charles River Ventures)Cyber Mentor FundLightspeed Venture PartnersShield Capital
Tamr provides a multi-domain master data management platform that unifies and manages multiple core business entities such as customers, suppliers, products, and locations within a single system.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Andy Palmer(Founder & CEO)inMichael Stonebraker(Co-Founder and Turing Award Winner)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesDcode CapitalFoothill VenturesGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelMassMutual Ventures+7 more
Twingate provides zero-trust remote access software as an alternative to traditional VPN technology for enterprises.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSRedwood City, US
Alex M.(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCBond Capital ManagementSignalFireWndrCo
Aeravti Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that has fully deployed its first fund and is preparing to launch a new fund.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFintechFoodTechMedia & Entertainment
Ashish Gumashta(Founder)Roshi Jain(Founder)Vivek Sinhain
Co-investorsNorwest Venture PartnersAlkemi Growth CapitalColossa VenturesCourtside VenturesEndiya PartnersSeason Two Ventures+1 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Alta Resource TechnologiesAptus Value Housing FinanceThe Beer CafeThreatOptixTreatful
Exits · 4
2 IPOs · 2 acquisitions · showing 2Palantir Technologies Inc.NASDAQ: PLTRSentinel OneNYSE: S
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesAura · PR Newswire · Aug 5, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Granite Hill made?
- Granite Hill has 25 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited.
- What stage does Granite Hill invest at?
- Granite Hill invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Granite Hill focus on?
- Granite Hill focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Enterprise Software, Fintech.
- Where is Granite Hill located?
- Granite Hill is headquartered in Silicon Valley, US.
- Who does Granite Hill co-invest with?
- Granite Hill most often shares deals with DCVC (Data Collective), Foothill Ventures, Peak XV Partners, among 82 tracked co-investors.
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