Sands Capital

Summary

In 1992 was created Sands Capital Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Arlington. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Sands Capital Ventures, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are RA Capital Management, Northpond Ventures, Sequoia Capital India. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Founders Circle Capital, Accel, Norwest Venture Partners.

The current fund was established by Michael Rubin. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Sands Capital Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this Sands Capital Ventures performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Slack Technologies, MuleSoft, Lending Club For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.