SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Granite Ventures

Granite Ventures
Granite Ventures has been helping early-stage technology companies build solid foundations for success since 1992. We focus our investments on two sectors where our partners have deep domain expertise, broad industry knowledge, and significant investment experience: Communications and Components and Software.

Granite has managed over $1 billion in venture capital and has invested in more than 90 private companies. We partner with promising and successful entrepreneurs to create businesses that have a competitive edge and help them achieve category leadership.

Sam Kingsland
Sam Kingsland is a founding member of the Granite Ventures team and has focused his investments in communications and components technologies since the firmâs inception. He joined Granite from Hambrecht & Quist's Venture Capital department.

Sam brings extensive experience working with emerging growth companies to the Granite team. Over Samâs thirteen-year career in the venture business, he has worked with more than 60 venture-backed companies and on more than 110 financings. Although Sam has focused on the communications sector for the past decade, during his career he has worked with early-stage companies in the software, bio-tech, healthcare, and consumer markets. Sam is the team leader managing Graniteâs relationship with Texas Instruments.

Sam led Granite’s investments in DigitalThink (acquired by Convergys), NetBoost (acquired by Intel), Nexabit Networks (acquired by Lucent), Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) and SnapTrack (acquired by Qualcomm). He currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Fulcrum Microsystems, Navini Networks, NetEffect and Top Layer Networks and Zeugma Systems.

Sam holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College.