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.

From aquaculture to semiconductors, European firms are quietly becoming global leaders in innovation, sustainability, and value creation.

In this episode of What Matters Most, Sands Capital Portfolio Manager and Sr. Research Analyst Danielle Menichella discusses the business’ journey from Taser maker to artificial intelligence-powered software developer. 

Executive Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager Brian Christiansen discusses the importance of candor, collaboration, and entrepreneurialism in creating a culture that promotes long-term thinking.

FPT has harnessed education to drive Vietnam’s digital transformation and human-capital development.

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 and Growth Equity

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

Category: Investment Strategy

From AI savvy workforces to cultures that champion continuous learning, forward thinking employers can turn talent into a flywheel of innovation, resilience, and compounding growth. For many asset-light businesses, people remain the greatest competitive edge, turning strategy into sustained value.
A multiyear compute super-cycle is underpinning AI’s rapid advance. Surging model scale and inference workloads are colliding with scarce advanced fabrication and packaging capacity, creating durable pricing power and high barriers to entry across the infrastructure stack—an ecosystem potentially poised to deliver long-term value for investors.
A narrow cohort of strategic businesses with pricing power, foresight, and resilience lies tucked within the broad international benchmarks. By applying our deep business-focused research, we seek the hidden gems that we believe will offer long-term value-creation opportunities.
In this video series, Portfolio Manager and Sr. Research Analyst Daniel Pilling explores how generative AI is reshaping industries. In examining training versus inference, compute economics, infrastructure constraints—from power grids to chip supply, he evaluates valuations and long-term opportunities for businesses able to seize the promise of the rapidly developing technology.
Valuations have surged, driven by AI enthusiasm. Portfolio Manager Daniel Pilling argues that semiconductors and hyperscalers don’t reflect the potential from yet-to-be-realized revenue opportunities in evolving industries, such as robotics and autonomous vehicles
Compute growth and synthetic training environments will fuel industrial and domestic robots, unlocking efficiencies and redefining time’s value. Explore how AI adoption and consumer time savings may reshape economics and spending patterns.
AI infrastructure has evolved from optional investment into an existential imperative. Hyperscale compute delivers sub-year paybacks and fortifies resilience against downturns. Portfolio Manager Daniel Pilling argues that organizations underinvesting in AI infrastructure risk falling irretrievably behind in tomorrow’s digital economy.
After recent trips to China, Sands Capital Sr. Research Analyst Massimo Marolo, CFA, finds China’s industrial backbone combined with proactive policies around market entry, R&D incentives and antitrust oversight, create fertile ground for automation to redefine productivity and competitiveness.
AI workloads are skyrocketing as models expand in scale and complexity, pushing compute demand and supply-chain limits to reshape digital infrastructure. Discover how evolving GPU technology, chip manufacturing bottlenecks, and geopolitics drive the next wave of AI innovation.
Innovative firms across Europe are transforming precision automation, sustainable aquaculture, and luxury craftsmanship into engines of global competitiveness. With niche breakthroughs, favorable policy environments, and capital discipline, these companies are converting complexity into long-term value.
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