Griff King

Mr. King joined Blue Rise Ventures as a Partner in March 2024. He is responsible for sourcing new acquisitions and capital partner relationships, leveraging over 20 years of experience in Bay Area institutional investments across life science, office, and industrial/R&D properties.

Mr. King previously spent 2 years as a Partner at Beam Reach, acquiring and entitling off-market life science and multifamily development properties. Before Beam Reach, he was a Partner at Harvest Properties, where he sourced, successfully executed all aspects of deal oversight and repositioning plans, and sold over $1B of institutionally partnered commercial real estate totaling over 3M sq. ft. He also held positions at Stanford Management Company and Robertson Stephens.

Mr. King holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, and a BA from Princeton University. He serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of NAIOP’s Silicon Valley Chapter. Mr. King is an East Coast transplant from Maryland who now lives in his wife‘s Peninsula hometown with their 2 children, and 3 dogs. He is a retired football and lacrosse player who enjoys the outdoors with his family and working on his lackluster golf game.