ES

Emir Sandhu

Managing Director at Sandbox Healthcare & The Blue Venture Fund

San Francisco, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2019

    The Blue Venture Fund is a unique collaboration among Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) companies, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), and Sandbox, to which thirty-five BCBS companies have committed approximately $900 million across four funds. The Blue Venture Fund invests in promising emerging companies of strategic relevance to Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield companies and provides the portfolio with access to BCBS companies to deploy innovation at scale.  Sandbox is an independent company that provides healthcare-related investment management exclusively for the Blue Venture Fund.

  • Managing Director

    2019

    Sandbox invests in technologies that drive lasting change in human livelihood and transform healthcare, sustainability and insurance & financial services. Sandbox also provides innovation consulting through Sandbox Advisors. Sandbox Clinical Ventures focuses on accelerating clinical innovation by investing in companies with transformative diagnostic, device and lab technologies. We bring together key stakeholders across the strategic and investment landscape to back companies that can improve the health of populations, reimagine the experience of care, and bend the cost curve.

2020

  • Board Member

    2020

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

2021

  • Board Observer

    2021

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

2020

  • Board Observer

    2020

  • Board Observer

    2019

  • Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Dept. of Radiology

    2019

  • Venture Scholar

    2019 - 2019