Investors / Sand River
Sand River
Venture capital
Sand River is an investment firm that supports and invests in early-stage businesses with a positive impact on nature and biodiversity. It takes a systemic view of the risks of damaging nature and the benefits of restoring it.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense
In its own wordsnaturebiodiversitynatural capitalregenerationimpact
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Or find every investor that fitsSand River lists 8 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (64%), Space & Defense (27%) and Food & Agriculture (9%). 100% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Katapult Ocean, Planet A and Adapt Nation Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Sand River, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 15th | 8 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 83th | 13% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 90th | 64% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Katapult Ocean | 2 |
| Planet A | 2 |
| Adapt Nation Capital | 1 |
| Burnt Island Ventures | 1 |
| Collaborative Fund | 1 |
| Connect Ventures | 1 |
| Elemental Impact | 1 |
| Founders Factory | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers8100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 64% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 27% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 9% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Sand River head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Sand River| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for Sand River
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Sand River's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
8 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch provides a first-mile data layer for supply chains, offering solutions for environmental, social, and regulatory compliance use cases. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Maltento creates high-performance natural flavour enhancers and functional ingredients for global pet food and animal feed industries | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Rhizocore Technologies produces locally-adapted mycorrhizal fungi to enhance tree planting success. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides nature data infrastructure for governments, financial institutions, enterprises, and land stewards | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Treeconomy provides a model of forests using satellite imagery and fieldwork data to track biomass and manage risk | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Unwritten AI identifies and quantifies physical, transition, and nature risk, generating actionable insights to improve transaction screening and drive better operational decision-making. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- sandriver.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 26 Oct 2026
- Companies checked
- 8
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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