Venture firm in listed AI tools
Sands Capital
Sands Capital has backed 5 companies behind 9 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Anthropic Series G, February 2026
- Claude API BB · Model APIs & inference
- Claude Agent SDK BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- Claude Code C · Agent harnesses
Source anthropic.com/news/…
Baseten Growth round, June 2026, led a round
Source kfgo.com/?p=1320705
Anthropic, PBC Series G, February 2026
Source anthropic.com/news/…
Ramp Business Corporation Funding round, August 2023, Series D-2, April 2024
Source ramp.com/blog/…
People Center, Inc. dba Rippling Series G
Source rippling.com/blog/…
Where they invest
Decision models 2 Model APIs & inference 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Agent harnesses 1 GPU & serverless compute 1 Personal assistants 1 Spend management & procurement 1 HR & employee operations 1
Founders they backed
- Dario Amodei Anthropic
- Daniela Amodei Anthropic
- Tom Brown Anthropic
- Jack Clark Anthropic
- Jared Kaplan Anthropic
- Sam McCandlish Anthropic
- Chris Olah Anthropic
- Tuhin Srivastava Baseten
- Amir Haghighat Baseten
- Phil Howes Baseten
- Pankaj Gupta Baseten
- Karan Ahuja Anthropic, PBC
Questions
Which AI tools has Sands Capital invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Anthropic, Baseten, Anthropic, PBC, Ramp Business Corporation and People Center, Inc. dba Rippling backed by Sands Capital.
How are Sands Capital's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Claude API (BB, 77.3), Claude Agent SDK (BB, 70.1), Claude Code (C, 59.9), Baseten (B, 66.7), elephant-1 (D, 47.6), mammoth-1 (D, 47.7), Claude Duet (F, 17.9), Ramp (C, 57.3) and Rippling (C, 60.9).
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