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Invest + Innovation

Granite Hill Capital Partners invests in innovation.

Our Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm is led by experienced principals and guided by our mission to access and advance extraordinary ideas in technology.

Access + Advance

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Granite Hill strives to access the most promising early-stage opportunities in deep technology, including cyber security, big data, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and financial technology. We seek to back ideas and startup organizations with outsized potential to impact entire industries and ways of doing business. We invest in both US and India-based opportunities.

Granite Hill’s mission is to advance these extraordinary ideas beyond the startup phase. We support founders with strategic and operational guidance to help build a real company from a singular vision. We invest selectively so that we can build truly meaningful working relationships with each of our founders.

Technology + Team

We look for two things in an investment:

Leading, disruptive, differentiated technology with large market opportunities and defensible intellectual property.

A team of experienced, credible, technically-talented founders with clear vision and a straightforward value proposition.

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Foundry Robotics

AI & Machine Learning

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Cybersecurity

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Jeffrey Pisani

Member

Jeff has over 25 years of experience in financial services and alternative asset management building systems, teams, and managing risk. He has held senior risk management positions at Wells Fargo and was the COO of Overland Advisors LLC, an affiliate of Wells Fargo with over $2 billion in AUM. He was previously Vice President and Assistant Treasurer at KKR Financial. Jeff began his career as a mainframe programmer building complex enterprise data systems.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Miami University.
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Resilience

Cybersecurity

Attero Recycling

Other

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Other

Efflux Systems

Cybersecurity

News:

Acquired by Netscount (Nasdaq: NTCT)

CL Educate

Other

News:

Exit via IPO

Imubit

AI & Machine Learning

Manappuram Finance Ltd.

Financial Services

News:

Exited

NAFA

Financial Services

NetCitadel

Cybersecurity

News:

Proofpoint Acquires NetCitadel

Acquired by ProofPoint (Nasdaq: PFPT)

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Hydratac

Defense Tech

Orange Retail Finance India

Financial Services

Palantir

AI & Machine Learning

News:

Exited via secondary sale

Seed Infotech

Other

Craxel, Inc.

AI & Machine Learning

Treatful

Other

News:

Acquired by OpenTable (Nasdaq: OPEN)

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ThreatOptix

Cybersecurity, AI & Machine Learning

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Aura

Cybersecurity

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Twingate

Cybersecurity

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Cybersecurity

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Arkenstone

Defense Tech

Sameet Mehta

Managing General Partner

Sameet has been an engineer, investor, and executive in Silicon Valley for over twenty years. In addition to running Granite Hill, he was a Board Member and stepped in as CFO and COO for SentinelOne through its growth years, leading to the largest cybersecurity IPO to date. Prior to founding Granite Hill, Sameet spent seven years in M&A and strategic venture capital with Cisco, where he established and led the venture capital effort in India, and covered routing and switch fabric technologies, video and consumer. He was previously with Lehman Brothers in the technology investment banking group.

Sameet holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a MBA from Stanford Business School.