Carol Sands
Founder @ The Halo Fund
San Francisco, United States
Carol Sands is a seed investor at The Halo Fund in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Analytics. Carol Sands is the Founder and the Managing Member of The Angels' Forum and The Halo Funds. She has 30 years of experience with investing, entrepreneurial, and large corporate institutions. Carol's career started in the Midwest where she was a bank officer with First Bank Systems and held marketing and sales positions with Motorola andXerox Computer Services. After moving to San Francisco, she was hired into executive positions at Arthur Young (Ernst & Young) and Coopers & Lybrand (PricewaterhouseCoopers). In 1997, she formed The Angels' Forum, an innovative angel group. The Angels' Forum organizes individual investors with previous entrepreneurial experience to invest using a venture capital model for due diligence, mentoring, and board management.In 1997, she formed The Angels' Forum, an innovative angel group. The Angels' Forum organizes individual investors with previous entrepreneurial experience to invest using a venture capital model for due diligence, mentoring, and board management.A globally recognized expert, Carol consults with government officials and corporations about early-stage investing and innovation. She teaches “Angel Investing for the Serious Investor†at Stanford University's Continuing Education Program and has guest lectured at other universities around the world. An active investor, she belongs to or consults with many organizations that support the entrepreneurial spirit including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) as a Charter Member, SV Forum, M31, CINA, The Band of Angels, Golden Seeds, Berkeley and The Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs. Involved in women's leadership, she is on the Advisory Board for Global Women's Leadership Network and is a member of The International Women's Forum.Passionate about the impact that small amounts of money can make when combined with innovative thinking, she is also a Director of the Sands Family Foundation which funds early stage and pre NIH (National Institute of Health) research relating to prostate and ovarian cancers. Carol received her B.A. in Business Administration from The University of Iowa.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Carol Sands invests in
Stages Carol Sands invests in
Countries Carol Sands invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 1 (100%)
- Analytics 1 (100%)
- Personalization 1 (100%)
- Mobile Advertising 1 (100%)
Investments
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Quettra
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Quettra is a mobile intelligence company focusing on personalizing mobile experiences and monetization by understanding user’s interactions with their phone from a very deep operating system level view. | $2.9M / Seed / Aug 08, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About The Halo Fund
The Halo Fund is a venture capital firm that offers early-stage investment services to technology startups. It was founded in 2000 by Carol Sands and is based in California.
The Halo Fund Contacts
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Carol Sands
Founder
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Craig Sirnio
partner & member
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Ed Esber
Co-Managing Partner
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Edward Esber
Co-Managing Partner
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Leif Langensand
Administrative Partner & CFO
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What does Carol Sands invest in?
Carol Sands invests primarily in Mobile, Analytics and Personalization startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Carol Sands last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Carol Sands closed in Aug 2014. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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