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Sands Capital

Sands Capital is an active, long-term investor in leading innovative businesses globally. Our approach combines analytical rigor and creative thinking to identify high-quality growth businesses that are creating the future. Through an integrated investment platform spanning venture capital, growth equity and public equity, we provide growth capital solutions to institutions and fund sponsors in more than 40 countries. An independent, staff-owned firm founded in 1992 with offices in the Washington, D.C. area, San Francisco, London and Singapore, Sands Capital managed more than USD $83 billion in client assets as of August 31, 2021.

Sands Capital Global Leaders

We believe the market systematically undervalues both the persistence and non-linearity of growth. Global Leaders seeks to exploit these opportunities while employing a portfolio construction approach designed to moderate short-term volatility. The strategy emphasizes a diversity of growth drivers, with the objective of delivering a growth portfolio with the volatility of a core portfolio.

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Sands Capital Select Growth

Select Growth focuses primarily on U.S. businesses at the forefront of the most vital areas of positive structural change in our economy. These businesses are built on disruptive innovation, and generate growth by inspiring profound change within existing industries or creating entirely new ones.

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Sands Capital Technology Innovators

Technology Innovators leverages our deep domain knowledge to seek to identify public and late-stage private businesses globally that are the key facilitators or beneficiaries of powerful secular shifts enabled by technologies.

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Sands Capital Global Growth

Global Growth takes an unconstrained approach to seeking the best growth businesses anywhere. With the research team free to scour all pockets of the world incubating new ideas, the Global Growth strategy taps into the power of sustainable competitive advantages in both developed and emerging markets.

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Sands Capital Emerging Markets Growth

As technology changes the opportunity set, Emerging Markets Growth seeks to own the best growth businesses benefiting from rising incomes, urbanization, growing local demand, and structural changes in many end markets.

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