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 is a Silicon Valley venture firm focused on accessing and advancing early-stage deep technology opportunities, including cybersecurity, big data, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and fintech. It seeks startups with the potential to reshape entire industries and invests in both US and India-based opportunities. The firm prioritizes leading, differentiated technology with large markets and defensible IP, paired with experienced, technically talented founders who have a clear vision. Investing selectively, Granite Hill aims to build meaningful relationships with founders and support them with strategic and operational guidance to grow beyond the startup phase.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 15, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 17 of 26 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×10AI & Machine Learning ×8Cybersecurity ×8Fintech ×5Data & Infrastructure ×3SaaS ×3Consumer ×2Deep Tech ×2
HQs:United States×8India×6
Who they back
founder profiles across 13 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×82 founders×44+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with education data
Stanford University ×4
What their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×6Engineering ×4Business & Management ×3Humanities ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 12 founders with career history
Adentro ×2
Investments · 26 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathPalantir 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
Alexander Karp(Executive Officer, Director)Peter Thiel(Director)inStephen Cohen(Director)Nathan Gettings(Executive Officer, Director)Joe Lonsdale(Co-founder)in
BoardColin Anderson(Executive Officer)in
Co-investors137 Ventures8VCA*Akkadian VenturesAllied Venture PartnersArtis Ventures+35 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)Scale VenturesShasta VenturesTelstra Ventures
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 Capital
Co-investorsKalaari Capital
Aura provides AI-powered digital security and protection services for families and individuals across all ages.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCybersecurityDigital HealthWellness & Fitness
Hari Ravichandran(Founder and CEO)inTim Levy(Chief Executive Officer, Aura Alpha)in
Co-investorsAccelFJ LabsGeneral CatalystPartech VenturesSignalFireTen Eleven+2 more
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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 VenturesSummit Peak InvestmentsSummit Peak VenturesUpWest
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)
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-investorsDcode CapitalFoothill VenturesGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelMassMutual VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)+7 more
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.
Airspace SystemsAlta Resource TechnologiesAptus Value Housing FinanceThe Beer CafeThreatOptixTreatful
Exits · 4
2 IPOs · 2 acquisitions · showing 2PalantirNASDAQ: PLTRSentinel OneNYSE: S
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesAirspace · boards.greenhouse.io · Aug 17, 2026
CL Educate · moneycontrol.com · Aug 10, 2026
Aura · kalkinemedia.com · Jul 17, 2026
NetCitadel · traded.co · Jul 9, 2026
Imubit · startuphub.ai · Jul 1, 2026
Sentinel One · cfotech.news · Jun 18, 2026
Alta Resource Technologies · trysignalbase.com · Jan 8, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Granite Hill made?
- Granite Hill has 26 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 8VC, DCVC (Data Collective), Glynn Capital Management, among 107 tracked co-investors.
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