Chris Hollenbeck
Chief Financial Officer @ Griffin Gaming Partners
San Francisco, United States
Chris Hollenbeck is a Series B investor at Griffin Gaming Partners in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Chris Hollenbeck is the Chief Financial Officer at Griffin Gaming Partners. He attended Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
Last updated:
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Industries Chris Hollenbeck invests in
SoftwareSaaSVideoQ&AAudio
Stages Chris Hollenbeck invests in
Series BSeries CSeries DSeries ESeed
Countries Chris Hollenbeck invests in
United States
Investment Focus
Stage
- Series B 7 (32%)
- Series C 5 (23%)
- Series D 4 (18%)
- Series E 2 (9%)
- Seed 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Smule
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Smule develops music-making apps that connect people. The company was founded to enable anyone to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. The company's products include AutoRap, Magic Piano, Guitar!, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, and more. Smule was established in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $22M / Series G / Jun 16, 2016 | |
HireVue
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HireVue is transforming the way companies discover and hire the best talent with its AI-driven Hiring Intelligence platform. Combining predictive, validated industrial/organizational science with artificial intelligence allows recruiting professionals to augment human decision-making in the hiring process, delivering higher quality talent,faster. HireVue has hosted over six million interviews for more than 700 customers worldwide, including more than one-third of the Fortune 100 and leading brands such as Vodafone, Nike, Intel, Hilton, HealthSouth, Qantas and Carnival Cruise Lines. | $45M / Series E / Jun 02, 2015 | |
Telltale Games
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Telltale is the first and only digital publisher to release interactive episodic content on a monthly schedule. Their award-winning internal development studio is responsible for creating landmark episodic content, including Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace &Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale currently develops and publishes episodic series on PC, Wiiâ„¢, and Xbox 360â„¢, with plans to expand to additional platforms and channels this year. | $40M / Series D / Feb 24, 2015 | |
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Smule
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Smule develops music-making apps that connect people. The company was founded to enable anyone to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. The company's products include AutoRap, Magic Piano, Guitar!, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, and more. Smule was established in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $16.6M / Series E / Apr 10, 2014 | |
Workboard
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Workboard is an enterprise SaaS company that helps companies unlock growth by making alignment and accountability remarkably easy. The Workboard SaaS Solution transforms an antiquated approach to strategy alignment and progression into a dynamic, data-driven practice augmented by analytics and intelligence. It helps organizations align OKRs andFAST goals, automate business reviews, and execute for growth.Workboard enables goal and execution alignment with full transparency for faster, better results. The Workboard solution helps teams make results in a habit with software to localize, activate, and execute strategic priorities fast and efficiently, and coaching to rapidly localize strategy through the org so everyone's engaged on this quarter's results. It sustains high speed, focus, and purpose as the organization grows exponentially.Workboard was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. | $2.8M / Seed / Feb 25, 2014 | |
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HireVue
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HireVue is transforming the way companies discover and hire the best talent with its AI-driven Hiring Intelligence platform. Combining predictive, validated industrial/organizational science with artificial intelligence allows recruiting professionals to augment human decision-making in the hiring process, delivering higher quality talent,faster. HireVue has hosted over six million interviews for more than 700 customers worldwide, including more than one-third of the Fortune 100 and leading brands such as Vodafone, Nike, Intel, Hilton, HealthSouth, Qantas and Carnival Cruise Lines. | $25M / Series D / Oct 02, 2013 | |
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HireVue
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HireVue is transforming the way companies discover and hire the best talent with its AI-driven Hiring Intelligence platform. Combining predictive, validated industrial/organizational science with artificial intelligence allows recruiting professionals to augment human decision-making in the hiring process, delivering higher quality talent,faster. HireVue has hosted over six million interviews for more than 700 customers worldwide, including more than one-third of the Fortune 100 and leading brands such as Vodafone, Nike, Intel, Hilton, HealthSouth, Qantas and Carnival Cruise Lines. | $17M / Series C / Aug 30, 2012 | |
YottaMark
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YottaMark, Inc. provides the most secure and simple to deploy unit-level brand security and real-time channel intelligence solution in the market. YottaMark's powerful technology platform delivers effective product authentication and unit-level traceability to help brand owners increase consumer trust, build new levels of channel intelligence,and drive sales. | $24M / Series D / Aug 15, 2012 | |
Rewarder
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Rewarder is a marketplace for knowledge and expertise covering a wide variety of topics ranging from home repair to product & auto advice.Everyone has unique skills and knowledge they have gathered through their life experiences and personal interests. Rewarder enables individuals to offer a monetary Reward in exchange for knowledge orexpertise from real people whose experience they can always trust. Whether it is help with a home repair project, troubleshooting a car problem or resolving a tech issue, Rewarder’s community of experts can help. Over 500K people have signed up to become a Rewarder expert. The company started when a team of two entrepreneurs set out to build a better way for people to tap into the vast knowledge around the world. Unlike forums or free Q&A sites, the monetary Reward ensures that the person in need will always receive a high quality solution, quickly from someone they can trust.Founded in 2010, Rewarder is located in San Francisco, CA and backed by Granite Ventures, Radar Partners, and other industry-leading investors. | $7M / Series A / Aug 01, 2012 | |
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Smule
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Smule develops music-making apps that connect people. The company was founded to enable anyone to create, discover, love, and enjoy music. The company's products include AutoRap, Magic Piano, Guitar!, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina, and more. Smule was established in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $12M / Series D / Oct 31, 2011 | |
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Co-Investors
About Griffin Gaming Partners
Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the gaming industry The firm invests across the broad gaming ecosystem, including content, software, and platforms.
Griffin Gaming Partners Contacts
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Peter Levin
Managing Director
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Phil Sanderson
Managing Director & Co-founder
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Chris Hollenbeck
Chief Financial Officer
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Emily Wang
Chief Operating Officer and Partner
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Nicholas Tuosto
Managing Director & Co-Founder
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FAQ
What does Chris Hollenbeck invest in?
Chris Hollenbeck invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Video startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Chris Hollenbeck last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chris Hollenbeck closed in Jun 2016. Shizune tracks 22 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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