# Scott Sandell

> Scott Sandell is a Series A investor at New Enterprise Associates backing Software and SaaS. See 113 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 113
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 52%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottsandell/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ScottDSandell

Scott Sandell is a Series A investor at New Enterprise Associates in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and SaaS. Scott Sandell is Managing General Partner at NEA. A General Partner since 2000, and Co-Managing General Partner from 2015 - 2017, Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments inindustry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 24 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers.Scott is currently a director of Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) and a number of private companies including Automation Anywhere, Branch, Cloudflare, Coursera, Enigma, Expanse (fka Qadium), Hello Alfred, One Concern, Robinhood, Sentons, Transfix, and WaterBit. Other previous investments include Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.8M–$30M |
| Series B | $11M–$59M |
| Series C | $25M–$110M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 29 | 26% |
| SaaS | 13 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 12 | 11% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 6% |

124 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 24 | 21% |
| Series B | 22 | 19% |
| Series C | 21 | 19% |
| Series D | 11 | 10% |
| Seed | 8 | 7% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 48 | 42% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zania | Autonomous AI agents for Security Risk and Compliance | $18M | Series A | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Brale | Combining the best of CeFi & DeFi. | $30M | Seed | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Arkestro | Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com | $36M |  | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Arkestro | Bid Ops is the only predictive procurement software built to keep your team continuously exceeding targets. Using Bid Ops, you can orchestrate your activities across systems using instant forecasts and real-time collaboration. Predict and win 2-5x faster savings and never get stuck waiting for a KPI report again. Learn more athttps://www.bidops.com | $36M | Series B | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Chaos | Chaos Industries is a technology company that is building the next generation of defense and critical industry technologies. Applying an engineering-led strategy, Chaos provides mission-driven, world-class engineers with a platform to build solutions to critical real-world problems. The Chaos agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping,while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world application. | $275M | Series C | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Orby AI | Orby AI is an AI platform designed to bring the auto-complete experience to everyday business users and automate all mundane tasks. Orby monitors a user's activity, finds recurring work steps, and develops code that eventually automates these jobs. | $30M | Series A | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Inkitt | Inkitt is the world's first reader-powered book publisher. They have developed an algorithm that predicts bestsellers by analyzing reading behaviour.At Inkitt, they believe that every author should have an equal chance to succeed. That’s why they’re building the fairest and most objective publishing house in the world by finding hiddentalents and turning them into globally successful authors.They're a team of 30 hard-working, extremely talented, and highly dedicated entrepreneurs and have raised $5m to level up and get closer to their goal: to help debut authors dominate the NY Times Best Seller list. | $37M | Series C | Feb 26, 2024 |  |
| CrewLAB | CrewLAB turns average teams into unstoppable crews | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| VAST Data | VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise. Its managed storage software unlocks the value of data and modernizes data centers in preparation for the era of AI computing. It delivers real-time performance to all data and overcomes the historic cost barriersto building all-flash data centers.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. | $118M | Series E | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Flow48 | Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services. | $25M | Seed | Nov 09, 2023 |  |

10 of 113 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Pelion Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pelion-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About New Enterprise Associates

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and healthcare startups. The firm engages with entrepreneurs at various stages of business development, providing support from initial funding to public offerings. The company focuses on the technology and healthcare industries.

5 contacts available at New Enterprise Associates.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Sharata | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-sharata |
| Anthony Florence | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-florence |
| Bala Deshpande | Sr. Managing Director, India | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bala-deshpande |
| Hilarie Koplow-McAdams | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hilarie-koplow-mcadams |
| Jay Graf | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-graf |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Sandell invest in?

Scott Sandell invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 113 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 Scott Sandell's check size?

Scott Sandell typically joins rounds of $5.8M–$30M at Series A, $11M–$59M at Series B and $25M–$110M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Scott Sandell participates in.

### When did Scott Sandell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Sandell closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 113 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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