Granite Instruments is a subsidiary of Worldly Partners. Driven by the conviction that small companies deliver outsized innovation and value, we founded Granite Instruments to spearhead our strategy to focus investment on the picks and shovels of scientific research.

Business owners looking to plan an orderly succession are faced with a difficult set of choices, not least of which is deciding who should carry on their legacy:

• Private Equity? Private equity will traditionally buy a company using substantial debt and need to exit the investment in less than 7 years. This can cause turbulence for you and your employees, but it can also help you meet your financial goals.

• Competitor? These are the companies you know and probably interact with regularly. Selling to a competitor could mean that your company moves, parts of it get absorbed into the acquirer, or your brand disappears.

• Us. Granite Instruments will pay a fair price for great companies and allow it to run in the manner that brought it so far: we want to keep the team in place, maintain the brand, and allow you to redefine your role to suit your strengths and goals.

Worldly Partners is a long-term-oriented, mental model-driven, research-intensive, highly concentrated investment partnership for a small group of university endowments, foundations, and family offices. We believe in investing in proven businesses for decades. We are institutional capital with a face.