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 firm's 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 Sam's sixteen-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 Granite's 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, NetEffect, Top Layer Networks, Venturi Wireless and Zeugma Systems. Sam holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College.