Sands Capital Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$3.0M Checks)
Sands Capital Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia investing in Enterprise, Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 19 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 19 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Sectors
- Enterprise, Other, SaaS, Consumer, Healthcare, Developer Tools, AI / ML
- HQ
- Arlington, Virginia
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-06
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
$500K – $3.0M
19+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Growth-oriented early-stage investor with a venture practice that backs enterprise software and select industrial technology companies.
How Sands Capital Ventures invests
Sands Capital Ventures is a vc firm based in Arlington, Virginia. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Enterprise, Other, SaaS, Consumer, Healthcare.
Sands Capital Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment.
Sands Capital Ventures has backed 19 companies in our records, including Personal Genome Diagnostics, Olink, Anduril.
Partners & Team
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Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (19)
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Personal Genome Diagnostics
Personal Genome Diagnostics develops a patient-specific analysis of the cancer genome by using advanced tools and technologies.
Olink
Olink Holding AB is a company dedicated to accelerating proteomics together with the scientific community, across multiple disease areas to enable new discoveries and improve the lives of patients.
Anduril
Anduril Industries designs and supplies autonomous defense systems and integrated software for security and military applications.
DoorDash
DoorDash provides restaurant food delivery services connecting customers with local businesses.
Lyra Health
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees.
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse-as-a-service designed for the cloud.
Samsara
Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations® Platform, which connects the people, devices, and systems of complex operations.
Scopely
Scopely is an interactive entertainment and video game company, home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises.
Klaviyo
Klaviyo is a marketing automation and email platform designed to help grow businesses.
Day Zero Diagnostics
Day Zero Diagnostics is creating a new class of sequencing-based in-vitro diagnostics that generates clinically actionable data at scale.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Enterprise, Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as null, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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