Our Culture

What you believe and what you value as an organization matters. Discover the DNA of our firm.

Our People

Get to know our teams and the stories of select staff members who share why they choose to work at Sands Capital.

News & Events

Read about some of the latest events, partnerships, and business highlights from Sands Capital.

Careers

At Sands Capital, we strive to hire exceptional talent who will live our values and support our efforts to deliver on our mission.

Sands Capital portfolio managers reflect on five powerful lessons they have learned while investing through past downturns.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a part of our everyday lives, making sure it’s transparent and unbiased has become a high priority for businesses, governments, and ordinary people. In this episode of What Matters Most, Scott Frederick, a Sands Capital managing partner, explains how software startup Credo AI is helping to keep AI models responsible. Join us as we look at how Credo AI aims to lead the way in this vital new field.

At Sands Capital we encourage our investment team to think in decades not quarters. Director of Research Michael Raab, CFA discusses how culture can support the visionary research needed to find businesses creating the future.

WEG is setting new standards for sustainability and innovation by focusing on energy efficiency and renewable solutions that deliver cutting-edge technologies to align with the needs of a rapidly changing world.

Philosophy & Approach

Our philosophy is rooted in the belief that, over time, stock prices will reflect the earnings power and growth of the underlying businesses.

Our latest annual report offers a comprehensive view of how we add value through active stewardship.

Public Equity

Our newest strategy takes an unconstrained approach to seeking the best growth businesses outside of the U.S.

Venture & Growth Equity

Sands Capital invests in innovative businesses across all stages of the growth spectrum

Category: Investment Strategy

History suggests that markets trend upward regardless of who’s in the White House and who controls Congress. That said, given today’s geopolitical, economic, and social crosscurrents, we believe that selectivity will become increasingly important.
The combination of software and the move to cloud computing remains one of the largest secular growth trends we see, which is driving increased demand for scalable, cloud-based solutions across every sector of the economy.
Generative artificial intelligence has been gaining traction across industries, powering an explosive demand for computing power and systems that could enable new use cases for businesses, schools, consumers, and society in general.
To us, the concept of quality is linked to a company's ability to increase its market share at the expense of competitors, to sell ever more value-adding goods and services, and to expand its leadership in attractive business spaces through innovation and disruption.
Equity markets have witnessed significant gains and shifts, including rising market concentration. Learn how this evolving landscape fosters an environment conducive to Select Growth's high conviction and long-term approach.
The broad adoption of generative artificial intelligence could be one of the greatest changes of our lifetime. The risks and unintended consequences that could accompany that widespread use as become a key focus of our stewardship efforts when engaging with our portfolio businesses.
We are in the early stages of the most significant paradigm shift of our lifetime. Listen to Sands Capital Sr. Portfolio Manager Thomas Trentman, CFA, discuss the opportunities generative AI has created and where it could take us in decades to come.
Markets may not fully appreciate what we see as the significant improvements many of our portfolio businesses have made to their underlying fundamentals.
Businesses that provide the building blocks for generative AI or are able to harness its power to provide better products and services should be the beneficiaries of this first wave of the artificial intelligence revolution.
As long-term stewards of capital, we believe it is critical that businesses, investors, and capital allocators factor climate change into their long-term strategies as they would any other environmental, social, or governance issue.
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