# Sand Hill East

> Sand Hill East is a VC fund in Basking Ridge backing SaaS and Security. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basking Ridge, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andybrown63
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/sandhilleast
- Website: http://www.sandhilleast.net
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandhilleast

Sand Hill East is a VC fund in Basking Ridge focused on SaaS and Security. Sand Hill East serves as trusted advisors to CEOs and Founders to help navigate them through the inevitable challenges of companies’ early stages of development. Sand Hill East brings substantial business management, operational and technical expertise to bear on companies’ products and market strategy, improving the overall value of products andcompanies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $660k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 25% |
| Security | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| iOS | 1 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Brown | Co-Founder and CEO | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-brown-5 |
| Roseann Palmieri | President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roseann-palmieri |
| Josh Burwick | Member of the Advisory Board | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-burwick |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Roomi | Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions. Roomi is a peer-to-peer shared housing marketplace making it safer and easier to rent rooms and find roommates. They are one of the only platforms that does not aggregate listings. Every room rental posted on their platform is user-generated andverified by the Roomi team. Users are able to easily list their empty rooms and potential roommates can browse and apply to move in. | $11M | Series A | Mar 31, 2017 |  |
| Untapt | untapt, headquartered in New York, NY, is an Artificial Intelligence company specializing in Human Capital and Talent. The business's core technology is a Deep Learning Neural Network, untapt Codex. Codex assesses massive pools of job applicants and open roles, pairing people to jobs that demonstrate a high likelihood of success. Thesemodels are trained on millions of data points and years of real-life hiring decisions.We also bring recruitment businesses and startups online with our best-in-class custom marketplace technology. Unlike traditional job boards, untapt platforms create lasting connections and relationships for your clients and candidates, all powered by untapt Codex. With an immersive, custom experience on all devices, our technology helps businesses 3x their placements per recruiter. | $2M | Convertible Note | Nov 15, 2016 |  |
| Scorenomics | Scorenomics is a behavioral data and analytics firm that delivers real-time behavioral scores to creditors at the point of transaction. Its platform addresses both the emotional and financial aspects of delinquency, improves customers' payment rates, and identifies normally declined applicants, enabling lenders to easily build empathy intocollections treatments and have consumers engage and get up-to-date. |  | Convertible Note | Jun 08, 2016 |  |
| Roomi | Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions. Roomi is a peer-to-peer shared housing marketplace making it safer and easier to rent rooms and find roommates. They are one of the only platforms that does not aggregate listings. Every room rental posted on their platform is user-generated andverified by the Roomi team. Users are able to easily list their empty rooms and potential roommates can browse and apply to move in. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 09, 2015 |  |
| Roomi | Roomi is a free mobile platform that helps people find flexible, affordable co-living solutions. Roomi is a peer-to-peer shared housing marketplace making it safer and easier to rent rooms and find roommates. They are one of the only platforms that does not aggregate listings. Every room rental posted on their platform is user-generated andverified by the Roomi team. Users are able to easily list their empty rooms and potential roommates can browse and apply to move in. | $660K | Seed | Dec 31, 2014 |  |
| Bezar | Bezar is a New York City based e-commerce startup offering carefully curated, modern design. Bezar is where people who design special things connect with people who desire special things. Bezar will enable emerging designers to reach design lovers, iconic brands to engage with new audiences in meaningful ways, and shoppers to access authenticpieces from new talent. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2014 |  |
| Airlock | Use the Airlock Browser Defense Platform to disrupt phishing and malware delivery kill chains and protect your brand from impersonators.Apozy's Airlock is a complete cybersecurity platform for making every URL safe to visit. Deploy a lightweight browser add-on in seconds to see and respond to incidents, or integrate the Airlock API to scanURLs in real time. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2014 |  |
| Lastline | Lastline provides a malware protection platform to detect and stop advanced persistent threats, zero-day exploits, and evasive malware. The company was founded in 2011 by world-renowned security researchers and creators of Anubis and Wepawet – malware analysis tools used by thousands of security vendors, enterprises, and government agenciesworldwide. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. |  | Series B | Jan 01, 2014 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dcm) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accion-international) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ACME Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acme-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sand Hill East invest in?

Sand Hill East invests primarily in SaaS, Security and Software startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 8 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 Sand Hill East's check size?

Sand Hill East typically joins rounds of $660k–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sand Hill East participates in.

### How do I contact Sand Hill East?

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### Who are the partners at Sand Hill East?

The team at Sand Hill East includes Andy Brown (Co-Founder and CEO), Roseann Palmieri (President) and Josh Burwick (Member of the Advisory Board). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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