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Sands Capital Management

Founders Frank M. Sands Jr. Frank M. Sands Sr. Michael Rubin

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$179M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.31
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity

Areas of investment

  • Sales
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Biotechnology
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

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Personal Genome Diagnostics

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$103M10 Feb 2021 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Spruce Biosciences

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$88M20 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

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Supply Chain Management
$7M20 Oct 2015 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Total investments 9
Average round size 179M
Rounds per year 0.31
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Personal Genome Diagnostics

Analytics
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Genetics
Health Diagnostics
Medical
$103M10 Feb 2021 Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Spruce Biosciences

Biopharma
Biotechnology
Health Care
Pharmaceutical
$88M20 Feb 2020 San Francisco, California, United States

Opinio

Delivery Service
Internet
Logistics
Supply Chain Management
$7M20 Oct 2015 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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