Scott Sandell Biography

Scott Sandell is managing general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and was also the lead investor in Playdom which sold to Disney in 2010 for $563 million (plus a $200 million earn-out). He was the largest shareholder in Fusion-io with NEA holding a 39% stake at the time of its 2011 public debut. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments in industry-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 23 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers. Scott is currently a director of a number of private companies including Bloom Energy, Branch Metrics, CareZone, Cloudflare, Coursera, Datrium, Enigma, Hello Alfred, One Concern, Qadium, Robinhood, Transfix, and UnifyID.

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