Raj Sandhu
General Partner @ Great Oaks Venture Capital
Miami, United States
Raj Sandhu is a General Partner at Great Oaks Venture Capital and was a Managing Partner at Athena Advisors. He attended Harvard Business School and Yale University.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Raj Sandhu invests in
Stages Raj Sandhu invests in
Countries Raj Sandhu invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $200k–$3.2M
- Series A
- $2.3M–$15M
- Series B
- $6M–$34M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (14%)
- E-Commerce 4 (14%)
- Video 3 (10%)
- Mobile 3 (10%)
- Internet 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (38%)
- Series A 9 (31%)
- Series B 4 (14%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Terzo
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Terzo Technologies is a cloud computing company that develops Vendor Relationship Management software. Terzo is the 1st SaaS platform that brings customers and vendors together to change the way organizations interact with their vendors.Terzo VRM is designed to improve collaboration, manage IT assets and take control of contracts & spend. | $3.2M / Seed / Jun 15, 2021 | |
StageGlass
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Building 3D products for Single-Family Home Builders and Interior Designers. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Mar 20, 2021 | |
Ginkgo Bioworks
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Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets. | $9M / Series A / Mar 18, 2015 | |
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Ginkgo Bioworks
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Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets. | $9M / Series A / Mar 18, 2015 | |
RealCrowd
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RealCrowd builds relationships with commercial real estate companies and invests directly in their investment opportunities. This unique crowd-based equity platform was created by experienced commercial real estate investment professionals to allow to decide where the money is invested by offering direct investments. Pooling money with otherlike-minded investors and working with a seasoned real estate operator with the skills, knowledge, and experience to optimize the asset will remove the traditional barriers to entry that typically exist in commercial real estate investing. | $1.6M / Seed / Mar 26, 2014 | |
Peek
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Peek is an AI-enabled platform that supports online booking, payment processing, dynamic pricing, and guest management, while automating scheduling, waivers, communication, and analytics. With a marketplace at Peek.com, it offers travelers access to tens of thousands of curated experiences—everything from immersive exhibits and city tours toclasses and adventures. Through recent acquisitions of ACME Ticketing and Connect&GO, Peek now extends its infrastructure to include membership, donations, RFID-based visitor tracking, and on-site operations. Its clients include major institutions like MoMA, the Whitney Museum, Seattle Aquarium, Bryant Park, Looping Group, and Museum of Ice Cream. | $5M / Series A / Mar 05, 2014 | |
Reflektion
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Reflektion’s AI-powered personalization platform listens to the behaviors of each individual shopper, utilizes artificial intelligence to calculate their preferences and intent, and then responds to every moment-to-moment interaction by displaying the most relevant content and products in real-time and across the digital touchpoints that mattermost—including site search, product recommendations, category and landing pages, and email. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. | $8M / Series A / Mar 04, 2014 | |
Hinge
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Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application. Moreover, Hinge provides an alternative to swipe culture by creating smart matches and natural conversations among people who are on the same page. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, United States. | $4M / Seed / Nov 04, 2013 | |
Applauze
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Applauze, formerly 955Dreams Inc., is a new age publishing company. They publish magical titles on mobile devices. Their latest product, called Applauze launched in March of 2013, is an iOS app that presents users with thousands of events happening every day, from concerts and theater productions to sports games and community events. Theservice is available across 41 U.S. cities and 5 Canadian cities.Applauze finds tickets from primary sellers, as well as secondary markets like StubHub, and uses data analytics and machine learning to recommend relevant events to users, who can easily purchase tickets via the app and also share their event with friends.Applauze is a small group of hackers and designers who are working on mobile products that will engage and excite you. They love what they do and their users love the products they've built. Their designs are executed at a very high standard and their apps are educational and highly immersive at the same time. Applauze has raised money from Mitch Kapor and 500 Startups. | $7.2M / Series A / Oct 23, 2013 | |
Yeti Data
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Yeti Data is solving the hardest problem facing marketers today: how to use all of their customer data to motivate behavior. To understand your customers, you have to build a holistic data picture of who they are, what they want, and why they want it. Yeti Data brings together all of a companies' disparate customer data from CRM, advertising,3rd parties and social media to create a complete data picture of the customer that is as unique as a snowflake. | $1M / Seed / Jun 01, 2013 | |
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Co-Investors
Great Oaks Venture Capital
11 deals together
Y Combinator
6 deals together
Madison Angels
4 deals together
SV Angel
3 deals together
DCVC
2 deals together
Felicis
2 deals together
About Great Oaks Venture Capital
Great Oaks is an early-stage venture investment firm that invests in seed and series a investments in tech-based startups. It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York.
Great Oaks Venture Capital Contacts
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Andrew Boszhardt Jr.
Founder and Managing Partner
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Andrew Boszhardt Jr.
Founder and Managing Partner
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Celine Kwok
CFO and Principal
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Ian Mukherjee
Technology Analyst, Entrepreneur-In-Residence
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James Hottensen
Associate
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FAQ
What does Raj Sandhu invest in?
Raj Sandhu invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Video startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Raj Sandhu's check size?
Raj Sandhu typically joins rounds of $200k–$3.2M at Seed, $2.3M–$15M at Series A and $6M–$34M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Raj Sandhu participates in.
When did Raj Sandhu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Raj Sandhu closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 29 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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