# Sansome Partners

> Sansome Partners is a San Francisco investment firm founded by Sandy Dean in 1997. It makes long-term investments across private and public businesses, debt and equity, and control and minority positions. Its private-equity deployment totals billions of dollars, while its long-only public-equities fund targets 10 positions. Public reporting connects the firm to the Fisher family and Mendocino Redwood Company.

- **Founded:** 1997
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Sandy Dean (Founder)
- **Products:** Private investments, Long-only public-equities fund
- **Notable:** Reports billions of dollars of private-equity capital deployed since inception., Operates a long-only public-equities fund targeting 10 positions., Founder Sandy Dean’s forestry involvement was featured in UC Berkeley’s 2013 S. J. Hall Lecture.

## Products & services

- **Private investments** — Direct investment across businesses and assets, with flexibility over geography, security type and ownership level.
- **Long-only public-equities fund** — A public-company investment fund targeting 10 positions.

## Achievements

- Reports billions of dollars of private-equity capital deployed since inception.
- Operates a long-only public-equities fund targeting 10 positions.
- Founder Sandy Dean’s forestry involvement was featured in UC Berkeley’s 2013 S. J. Hall Lecture.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Portfolio-related update: Mendocino Redwood’s 2025 activity sheet reports 4.6 billion board feet of conifer inventory at year-end 2025, compared with 2.1 billion in 1998. These are operator-reported ecological/operating figures, not Sansome fund returns.

## Links

- Website: https://www.sansome.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sansome-partners

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Last updated: 2026-10-27