Sands Capital

Founded in 1992, Sands Capital is an independent, employee-owned investment management firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It specializes in fundamental, bottom-up research to identify high-quality growth businesses globally, from early-stage private companies to leading public entities across various sectors.

Ian Barnes

Managing Director

Matthew Buckley

Senior Research Associate

Brian Christiansen

Executive Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst

Christopher Eng

Principal

Scott Frederick

Managing Director

Kumar Gautam

Partner

Michael Ginder

Partner

Michael Graninger

Managing Partner

Michael Graninger

Partner

Nicholas Graziano

Principal, Portfolio Services

David Levanson

Senior Portfolio Manager, Research Analyst and Executive Managing Director

Barron Martin Jr.

Managing Partner

Annie McCormick

Director, Client Service

Mark McGovern

Venture Partner

Dana McNamara

Executive Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer

Jake Merrill

Principal

Barron Martin

Research Analyst

Gene Riechers

Venture Partner

Frank M. Sands, Jr.

CEO, CIO

Marina Serenbetz

Partner

Shreya Singh

Associate

Erin Soule

Managing Director and Head of Private Markets Finance and Operations

Michael Sramek

Managing Director, Research Analyst and Senior Portfolio Manager

Christy Steele

Principal

Past deals in PaaS

PgEdge

Seed Round in 2025
PgEdge provides distributed PostgreSQL designed to optimize the network edge, reduce data latency, and ensure ultra-high availability for mission-critical applications. The service combines multi-active, multi-master, and multi-region replication hosted in a managed cloud environment, enabling developers to build and deploy distributed database applications across the global network with low latency and resilient performance.

PgEdge

Seed Round in 2024
PgEdge provides distributed PostgreSQL designed to optimize the network edge, reduce data latency, and ensure ultra-high availability for mission-critical applications. The service combines multi-active, multi-master, and multi-region replication hosted in a managed cloud environment, enabling developers to build and deploy distributed database applications across the global network with low latency and resilient performance.

PgEdge

Seed Round in 2023
PgEdge provides distributed PostgreSQL designed to optimize the network edge, reduce data latency, and ensure ultra-high availability for mission-critical applications. The service combines multi-active, multi-master, and multi-region replication hosted in a managed cloud environment, enabling developers to build and deploy distributed database applications across the global network with low latency and resilient performance.
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