Sands Capital Management

Total investments

9

Average round size

179M

Portfolio companies

10

Rounds per year

0.31

Lead investments

1

Exits

1

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologySalesEnterpriseSaaSEnterprise SoftwareDelivery ServiceCRM

Summary

Sands Capital Management appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1992. The main department of described VC is located in the Arlington. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Comparing to the other companies, this Sands Capital Management performs on 21 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from Sands Capital Management the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. The top activity for fund was in 2016.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight AppDynamics, Anaplan, BigBasket. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, E-Commerce.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7-8 partakers. Despite the Sands Capital Management, startups are often financed by Zodius Capital, Shasta Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Zodius Capital, Tracxn labs, Shasta Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Trifecta Capital Advisors, Sands Capital Ventures, Founders Circle Capital.

The fund was created by Frank M. Sands, Sr.. The overall number of key employees were 5.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
1
Exits
1
Rounds per year
0.31
Investments by industry
  • Sales (4)
  • Enterprise Software (3)
  • SaaS (3)
  • Biotechnology (2)
  • Information Technology (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (8)
  • India (2)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
5
Number of Decacorns
5
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
8
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
1.00
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Opinio 20 Oct 2015 Logistics, Internet, Supply Chain Management, Delivery Service Early Stage Venture 7M Karnataka, Bengaluru, India

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