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Sands Capital Ventures

Venture Capital

Portfolio

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companies


Portfolio companies

Snyk

Snyk

Snyk provides developer security tools to help enterprises build software securely.

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Papercup

Papercup provides AI video and audio dubbing services featuring expressive synthetic voices.

PolyAI

PolyAI

PolyAI provides enterprise voice assistants powered by artificial intelligence.


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Michael Graninger

Partner

LinkedIn

Recent investments

Series D+
£126M

The financing round was co-led by Accel and Tiger Global to support the company's global expansion.

"This latest investment allows us to accelerate our growth at every level – doubling down on our successful product led growth strategy, adding to our customer roster, recruiting talent to our team worldwide and expanding geographically."
— Peter McKay, CEO
Series A
£8.0M

LocalGlobe and Sands Capital Ventures led the financing round, which will fund research and quality control expansion.

"Most of the world’s videos – billions of hours of content – are shackled to a single language. And that’s for a simple reason – quality dubbing is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, so current solutions only work for a select group of deep-pocketed content owners. Speech translation technology fundamentally changes the dynamics of how content is distributed and monetised. The technology we created will level the playing field – allowing all forms of video and audio to be consumed in any language, therefore vastly multiplying the potential reach for all content creators."
— Jesse Shemen, CEO
Series A
£9.2M

The Series A round was led by Point72 Ventures to support conversational AI deployment in contact centres.

"Developing sophisticated AI technology while formulating a compelling SaaS proposition is a significant challenge, and it has delayed the real-world deployment of conversational AI for far too long,"
— Nikola Mrkšić, CEO and Co-Founder