# Sands Capital (slim)

> Sands Capital's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Anthropic, Baseten, Anthropic, PBC, Ramp Business Corporation and 1 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sands-capital/index.md (~1,100 tokens) · this version ~980 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sands-capital/index.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sands-capital/
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-28
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Venture firm.

Website: https://www.sandscapital.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Anthropic**, Series G, February 2026
  - [Claude API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anthropic-api.md), graded BB, 77.3/100
  - [Claude Agent SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-agent-sdk.md), graded BB, 70.1/100
  - [Claude Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-code.md), graded C, 59.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation
- **Baseten**, Growth round, June 2026, led a round
  - [Baseten](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.md), graded B, 66.7/100
  - [elephant-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/elephant-1.md), graded D, 47.6/100
  - [mammoth-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mammoth-1.md), graded D, 47.7/100
  - Source: https://kfgo.com/?p=1320705
- **Anthropic, PBC**, Series G, February 2026
  - [Claude Duet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-duet.md), graded F, 17.9/100
  - Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation
- **Ramp Business Corporation**, Funding round, August 2023, Series D-2, April 2024
  - [Ramp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ramp.md), graded C, 57.3/100
  - Source: https://ramp.com/blog/ramp-august-2023-funding
- **People Center, Inc. dba Rippling**, Series G
  - [Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md), graded C, 60.9/100
  - Source: https://www.rippling.com/blog/series-g-fundraising-tender-offer

## 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](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dario-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Daniela Amodei](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/daniela-amodei/), Anthropic
- [Tom Brown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tom-brown/), Anthropic
- [Jack Clark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jack-clark/), Anthropic
- [Jared Kaplan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jared-kaplan/), Anthropic
- [Sam McCandlish](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-mccandlish/), Anthropic
- [Chris Olah](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/chris-olah/), Anthropic
- [Tuhin Srivastava](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tuhin-srivastava/), Baseten
- [Amir Haghighat](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/amir-haghighat/), Baseten
- [Phil Howes](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/phil-howes/), Baseten
- [Pankaj Gupta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pankaj-gupta/), Baseten
- [Karan Ahuja](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/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.

### 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).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source.