# Gregory Sands

> Gregory Sands is a Series A investor at Guardian Analytics backing Software. See 79 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Guardian Analytics](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guardiananalytics)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 79
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregsands/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gsands
- Website: http://www.medium.com/@gregsands
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greg.sands.33/

Gregory Sands is a Series A investor at Guardian Analytics in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Gregory Sands is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Founder & Managing Partner of Costanoa Ventures. Gregory previously worked at Sutter Hill as a Managing Director. Gregory Sands attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 13% |
| SaaS | 7 | 9% |
| Analytics | 6 | 8% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 8% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 20 | 25% |
| Series B | 13 | 16% |
| Seed | 7 | 9% |
| Series C | 6 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 8% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 39% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Self Inspection | Self Inspection is a provider of an AI-powered platform for the automotive inspection market. Its platform allows companies to complete a computer vision-based guided vehicle inspection in a few minutes on any phone, using AI to evaluate damages and estimate fix costs. The tech streamlines lease-end, trade-in, rental, transportation, and insuranceclaim vehicle inspections, creating a frictionless future while enabling trust and deep analytics every time a vehicle changes hands. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Smack Technologies | Smack's domain-specific models assess multimodal data streams in real time, transforming them into campaign-informed decisions across the kill chain within seconds. | $32M | Series A | Mar 02, 2026 |  |
| Tenna Systems | Tenna Systems develops a platform that supports real-time monitoring, geolocation, and mitigation of radio-frequency interference to help maintain dependable connectivity for mission-critical systems. Its technology is informed by extensive experience in electromagnetic warfare and is designed to enhance awareness of RF activity across complexoperational environments. Tip&Cue supports defense, aerospace, and mobility organizations by enabling detection and analysis of interference sources and by strengthening the resilience of systems that depend on spectrum availability. | $13.5M | Seed | Feb 08, 2026 |  |
| Mindtrip | Mindtrip operates as an AI assistant that provide travel data that includes maps with suggested places to visit. |  | Seed | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| Markup AI | AI can create content, but Markup AI’s Content Guardian AgentsSM perfect your content. Our API- and MCP-first solution delivers content guardrails directly where your content lives. Markup AI instantly scans, scores, and rewrites any content to enforce your standards for brand voice, terminology, and compliance. Markup AI gives you the confidenceyou need to scale your use of AI. | $27.5M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| StackHawk | StackHawk is a computer software company that specializes in website and software maintenance and detecting bugs. The company provides documentation, and automate the pipeline to prevent future bugs from hitting prod. StackHawk was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $12M | Series B | May 22, 2025 |  |
| SGNL | Modern enterprise authorization with human-readable policies and an understanding of business context to deliver just-in-time authorization | $30M | Series A | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Self Inspection | Self Inspection is a provider of an AI-powered platform for the automotive inspection market. Its platform allows companies to complete a computer vision-based guided vehicle inspection in a few minutes on any phone, using AI to evaluate damages and estimate fix costs. The tech streamlines lease-end, trade-in, rental, transportation, and insuranceclaim vehicle inspections, creating a frictionless future while enabling trust and deep analytics every time a vehicle changes hands. | $3M | Seed | Feb 07, 2025 |  |
| Highnote | Highnote is an embedded finance company developing a virtual payment platform to handle complex payment processing business flows.Utilizing the developer-friendly Highnote platform, product and engineering teams at digital enterprises of all sizes can easily and efficiently embed virtual and physical payment cards (commercial and consumerprepaid, debit, credit, and charge), ledger, and wallet capabilities into their existing products, creating compelling value for users while growing revenue and building a unique and differentiated brand. | $125M | Series B | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| ForceMetrics | ForceMetrics is an intuitive search and insights platform that simplifies public safety decision-making. By delivering rapid access to actionable information, ForceMetrics helps public safety professionals make informed decisions for the benefit of the community. With streamlined data exploration and analytics across CAD, RMS, and other publicsafety systems, the company's platform eliminates data silos to improve workflows, optimize performance, and provide unprecedented access to information. Its comprehensive platform also enables public safety professionals to track and analyze crime patterns, resource allocation, and operational efficiency, enhancing their ability to mitigate risks, tackle social challenges, and serve their communities more effectively. | $22M |  | Oct 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 79 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Foundry Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundryvc) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Sigma Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sapphire-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Adobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adobe-systems) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Guardian Analytics

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Guardian Analytics is the pioneer and leading provider of behavioral analytics and machine learning solutions for preventing banking fraud. More than 400 financial institutions have standardized on Guardian Analytics’ innovative solutions to mitigate fraud risk and rely on the company to stop the sophisticated criminal attacks targeting retail andcommercial banking clients. With Guardian Analytics, financial institutions build trust, increase competitiveness, improve their customer experience and scale operations. Guardian Analytics is privately held and based in Mountain View, CA. For more information, please visit www.GuardianAnalytics.com.Guardian Analytics is a registered trademark of Guardian Analytics, Inc.

5 contacts available at Guardian Analytics.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gregory Sands | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-sands |
| Eric Tran-le | Co-CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-tran-le |
| Gary Lisa | VP, Global Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-lisa |
| Jesus Ortiz | VP, Product Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jesus-ortiz |
| John Olson | VP, Cloud Operations and Security | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-olson-882b |

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## FAQ

### What does Gregory Sands invest in?

Gregory Sands invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 79 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 Gregory Sands last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gregory Sands closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 79 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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