Granite Venture, LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage companies. The firm seeks to make initial investments in the seed, Series A or Series B rounds. It prefers to invest in communications and components companies and software sectors with a focus on wireless, broadband, network and application security, infrastructure software, storage, digital media and content, application software, and software delivery. The firm usually invests in U.S. based companies, but may also consider select investments outside the U.S. Its initial investments range from $2 million to $6 million and $10 million to $15 million over the life of the company. The firm generally acts as the lead investor and takes a board seat in its portfolio companies. It was a prior investment arm of Hambrecht & Quist. Granite Venture, LLC was founded in 1992 and is based in San Francisco, California.