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Sands Capital Ventures

Growth-focused venture investor from the Sands Capital group, backing technology companies

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Sands Capital Ventures is the private-markets venture arm of Sands Capital, a group that also includes Sands Capital Management. It invests in growth companies it expects to shape the future.

What Sands Capital Ventures offers

  • Growth investing: a single focus on high-quality growth businesses.
  • Private-markets strategies: run by the ventures team with some staff resources from the management arm.
  • Fundamental analysis: research-led selection combined with a modified approach to the usual venture model.

Who it serves

Entrepreneurs building growth businesses. Portfolio examples on its website include DataRobot, an enterprise AI platform, and WireWheel, a data privacy management platform.

Key facts

  • Based in: Arlington, Virginia, USA
  • Structure: two registered investment advisers with separate decision-making

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Rankings

Sands Capital Ventures is ranked on 2 TrustList rankings: #46 on 1 and #47 on 1.

Every ranking orders its listings by their reviews, how complete the profile is and the Trust Score. Sands Capital Ventures has no reviews yet and 3 of the 10 profile details we look for. Where no listing on a page has been reviewed, the order follows the profiles alone.

Investor · 2 rankings

  • #46of 53
    Singapore

    It is one of 3 here listing biotech and one of 9 here listing growth stage.

    Of the 53 here, 11 also cover series a and 9 also cover growth stage; 19 also work in New York City and 17 also work in London.

    Behind Quest Ventures, ahead of Shanda Group.

  • #47of 52
    Biotech investors

    It is one of 10 here listing growth stage.

    Of the 52 here, 14 also cover seed stage and 14 also cover healthtech; 15 also work in Boston and 10 also work in Silicon Valley.

    Behind Red Tree Venture Capital, ahead of Seed Fonds Aachen.

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