Chris Mckay

Managing Director, Granite Ventures

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2017
VC🌍 United States
9
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Board Observer
Dec 2011
Anaplan is a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today’s complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, our platform intelligently surfaces key insights — so businesses can make the right decisions, right now. More than 2,500 global brands plan with Anaplan.
Board Member
Jun 2011
Modern life is fueled by modern financial solutions that are so seamlessly woven into our daily lives, you almost forget they are there. At Marqeta, we don’t just think about how we transact, we think about how those transactions can unlock delight with every digital experience. Our modern card issuing platform enables our world-class customers to create tailored and embedded financial solutions that cater to the evolving needs of today’s consumers. Marqeta is a flexible-first company with headquarters in Oakland, CA. We’re passionate about empowering our people to make a significant impact and do the best work of their lives, all while revolutionizing the way millions experience the movement of money.
Board Member
Jul 2009
Sendmail simplifies business email complexity and reduces IT infrastructure costs for large enterprises. The company’s solutions ensure global email connectivity, routing, and message delivery between people, systems, and applications located on-premises, in-cloud or on mobile devices. The Sentrion Email Infrastructure Platform performs intelligent email policy and message inspection ensuring all critical communications and content are integrated with business policies, applications and processes. The award-winning Sentrion Message Processors provide enterprises with a core messaging platform available in hard appliance or virtual appliance and cloud configurations that can be customized with add-on applications available from the Sentrion App Store. Sentrion Message Processors and applications address the challenges of gateway management, inbound threat protection, outbound data leak prevention, full email content scanning for regulatory compliance, and intra-company message management all on a single, yet powerful, messaging infrastructure platform. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with sales and support offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information call 1-87-SENDMAIL, or email info@sendmail.com. Learn more by viewing this short video: http://sendmail.com/simplifies/
Board Member
Jun 2009
Martini Media is the only partner that specializes in the Affluent audience online. With more than 10 years of experience, Martini’s unmatched focus and interest provide marketers the necessary expertise in a dynamic digital marketplace. Martini’s success is founded in the power of intelligence and the virtue of imagination. Client success is driven by first understanding the digital affluent consumer and then creating a marketing and advertising program that engages consumers in a very specific way across multiple channels. While the tactics are critical, the content and creative are what truly engage the consumer. Our market and consumer research, combined with a decade of data on campaign-based performance and engagement metrics, allows Martini to partner with brands to craft programs that are tailor-fit for each clients specific goals and target objectives.
Board Member
Oct 2008
Lucidworks connects experiences throughout the entire user journey to meet customer and employee intent in the moment. Lucidworks Connected Experience Cloud (CXC) makes it easy for customers to capture user signals and create personalized search, browse, and discovery experiences. The world’s largest brands, including Lenovo, Red Hat, Reddit and Cisco Systems rely on Lucidworks’ suite of products to power commerce, customer service, and workplace applications that delight customers and empower employees.
Board Member
Sep 2007
Symplified is a comprehensive cloud identity solution that enables IT organizations to simplify user access to applications, regain visibility and control over usage and meet security and compliance requirements. Symplified provides single-sign-on, identity and access management, directory integration, centralized provisioning, strong authentication, mobile device support and flexible deployment options. The company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado and backed by Ignition Partners, Allegis Capital and Granite Ventures.
Board Member
May 2004
Purisma, offers solutions-driven master data management (MDM) platform for enterprises. The company offers Purisma Data Hub, which offers data governance solutions, as well as identifies customers, vendors, and other entities across corporate data sources. Its Purisma Data Hub includes self learning system, role based hierarchies, reference data integration, synchronize and integrate, and lifecycle management and data stewardship solutions. The company offers customer reporting and analytics, SOA application deployment, D&B integration management, cross system, and transactional flow solutions, as well as provides incremental data model based on registry style architecture and master data utilizing solutions. Its services include MDM planning, technical consulting, implementation, upgrades, lifecycle management, hierarchy management, spotting revenue leakage, and technical support services. The company’s strategic partners include Business Objects, D&B, Hyperion, and Teradata. Purisma, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. As of October 2007, Purisma, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet Corp. (NYSE:DNB).
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2017
Board Member
Mar 2017
Human Potential Intelligence is the future of hiring – enabling organizations to elevate the hiring conversation from evaluating candidates’ credentials to understanding what they are capable of. HireVue’s deep expertise in science, AI and data, helps companies understand candidates’ unique skills and potential to match them to jobs where they can excel today, while also suggesting their path to the future. Serving over 1,150 pioneering customers around the globe including over 60% of the Fortune 100, HireVue has hosted more than 70 million video interviews and 200 million chat-based candidate engagements.
2011
Board Observer
Dec 2011
Anaplan is a leading AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in today’s complex business environment so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, our platform intelligently surfaces key insights — so businesses can make the right decisions, right now. More than 2,500 global brands plan with Anaplan.
Board Member
Jun 2011
Modern life is fueled by modern financial solutions that are so seamlessly woven into our daily lives, you almost forget they are there. At Marqeta, we don’t just think about how we transact, we think about how those transactions can unlock delight with every digital experience. Our modern card issuing platform enables our world-class customers to create tailored and embedded financial solutions that cater to the evolving needs of today’s consumers. Marqeta is a flexible-first company with headquarters in Oakland, CA. We’re passionate about empowering our people to make a significant impact and do the best work of their lives, all while revolutionizing the way millions experience the movement of money.
2009
Board Member
Jul 2009
Sendmail simplifies business email complexity and reduces IT infrastructure costs for large enterprises. The company’s solutions ensure global email connectivity, routing, and message delivery between people, systems, and applications located on-premises, in-cloud or on mobile devices. The Sentrion Email Infrastructure Platform performs intelligent email policy and message inspection ensuring all critical communications and content are integrated with business policies, applications and processes. The award-winning Sentrion Message Processors provide enterprises with a core messaging platform available in hard appliance or virtual appliance and cloud configurations that can be customized with add-on applications available from the Sentrion App Store. Sentrion Message Processors and applications address the challenges of gateway management, inbound threat protection, outbound data leak prevention, full email content scanning for regulatory compliance, and intra-company message management all on a single, yet powerful, messaging infrastructure platform. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with sales and support offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. For more information call 1-87-SENDMAIL, or email info@sendmail.com. Learn more by viewing this short video: http://sendmail.com/simplifies/
Board Member
Jun 2009
Martini Media is the only partner that specializes in the Affluent audience online. With more than 10 years of experience, Martini’s unmatched focus and interest provide marketers the necessary expertise in a dynamic digital marketplace. Martini’s success is founded in the power of intelligence and the virtue of imagination. Client success is driven by first understanding the digital affluent consumer and then creating a marketing and advertising program that engages consumers in a very specific way across multiple channels. While the tactics are critical, the content and creative are what truly engage the consumer. Our market and consumer research, combined with a decade of data on campaign-based performance and engagement metrics, allows Martini to partner with brands to craft programs that are tailor-fit for each clients specific goals and target objectives.
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