Candou Ventures

Candou Ventures is a venture capital investment firm established in 2015 and located in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in early seed round investments, focusing on entrepreneurs with distinctive and defensible business concepts. Candou Ventures is committed to transforming innovative ideas into viable business models, providing support throughout the seed funding process, and assisting in securing additional investment from leading venture capital firms. The firm has a particular interest in sectors such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, software as a service, Internet of Things, and cloud infrastructure.

Faraj Aalaei Ph.D

Founding General Partner

Shahin Hedayat

Founding General Partner

Laleh Masnavi

Operating Partner

Leela Najafi

Associate

Nader Vasseghi

Venture Partner

15 past transactions

Exostellar

Series A in 2023
Exostellar is a technology company that specializes in cloud resource management and optimization, focusing on enhancing cost efficiency in cloud computing. Founded in 2018 and based in Ithaca, New York, the company leverages exclusive license agreements for patent-pending technologies developed at Cornell University, integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into its solutions. Exostellar offers tools such as X-Spot, which dynamically relocates containers between spot and regular instances, and X-Consolidate, which optimizes container usage based on workload fluctuations. The platform combines application containers and virtual machines, allowing for portable architecture and live migration of stateful workloads, ultimately helping enterprises to significantly reduce cloud computing expenses while improving reliability and performance.

NinjaTech AI

Seed Round in 2023
NinjaTech AI develops an artificial intelligence platform that offers comprehensive digital assistance. Its platform integrates features like image and video generation, editing, code generation, writing assistance, research functionalities, scheduling, external AI model access, file analysis, and prompt engineering tools. This enables businesses and individuals to accomplish tasks efficiently and economically.

SignalRank

Series A in 2023
SignalRank is a venture capital firm that operates an automated investment platform designed to support seed fund managers in retaining their equity stakes in portfolio companies. Utilizing proprietary scoring algorithms, the platform facilitates efficient capital allocation, providing seed investors with valuable data-driven insights to optimize their investment decisions. The company's flagship product, The SignalRank Index, focuses on Series B investments, qualifying entrants through a heuristic and machine learning-based engine, thereby enabling public market investors to gain exposure to promising early-stage growth companies while addressing liquidity concerns in venture capital.

Medsien

Seed Round in 2022
Medsien is a provider of remote care management services that utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance patient engagement and health outcomes. The company has developed a platform that integrates various care management programs, allowing healthcare providers to efficiently monitor chronic conditions and manage remote patient care. By curating and aggregating patient data, Medsien's technology delivers insights into patient health trends and metrics, enabling real-time notifications of any changes. This streamlined approach not only improves the patient experience but also helps reduce costs and supports informed decision-making for healthcare providers.

Movellus

Series B in 2022
Movellus, Inc. is a semiconductor company that specializes in designing, developing, fabricating, testing, and manufacturing mixed-signal semiconductors. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional offices in Silicon Valley, California; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Toronto, Canada, the company offers a range of products including clock generators, phase-locked loops (PLLs), delay-locked loops (DLLs), programmable oscillators, and low-dropout regulators (LDOs). Movellus is focused on creating process-portable and ultra-low power analog intellectual property (IP), aiming to enhance system-on-chip (SoC) performance while lowering power consumption. Its technology addresses the challenges of clock distribution in high-performance and low-power chips, ultimately enabling improved energy efficiency and maintaining clock speeds for applications in artificial intelligence, networking, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

Bodo.ai

Series A in 2021
Bodo.ai offers an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics. It scales past thousands of cores and petabytes of data, providing unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. The platform leverages unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, enabling F500 customers to solve complex data analysis problems swiftly and cost-effectively using native Python. Bodo.ai is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh.

SignalRank

Seed Round in 2021
SignalRank is a venture capital firm that operates an automated investment platform designed to support seed fund managers in retaining their equity stakes in portfolio companies. Utilizing proprietary scoring algorithms, the platform facilitates efficient capital allocation, providing seed investors with valuable data-driven insights to optimize their investment decisions. The company's flagship product, The SignalRank Index, focuses on Series B investments, qualifying entrants through a heuristic and machine learning-based engine, thereby enabling public market investors to gain exposure to promising early-stage growth companies while addressing liquidity concerns in venture capital.

Algopix

Seed Round in 2021
Algopix is an early-stage startup based in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, offering an end-to-end product market analysis platform for the global e-commerce industry. It provides brands, consumer packaged goods (CPGs), and marketplaces with real-time data-driven insights to optimize their online sales strategies. Algopix aggregates critical data points from global online marketplaces using proprietary algorithms, helping clients make informed decisions about pricing, promotions, and sourcing.

Bodo.ai

Series A in 2021
Bodo.ai offers an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics. It scales past thousands of cores and petabytes of data, providing unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. The platform leverages unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, enabling F500 customers to solve complex data analysis problems swiftly and cost-effectively using native Python. Bodo.ai is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh.

Frequencz

Seed Round in 2021
Frequencz is an innovative company specializing in shared virtual private networks for enterprises, aiming to transform the landscape of private network management. By leveraging cloud economics, Frequencz enhances the efficiency of radio technology, enabling the operation of private networks on unlicensed spectrum across multiple frequency bands. The company's solutions facilitate the creation of fully automated and self-organized private networks, significantly improving return on investment and profitability for private network operators and enterprises. Through its advancements in the radio domain, Frequencz is poised to disrupt traditional methods of network construction and operation, offering a new paradigm for wireless mobility.

Pockyt

Seed Round in 2021
Pockyt facilitates global payments by integrating various international payment methods for businesses, supporting both online and in-store transactions.

Facenote

Convertible Note in 2020
Facenote is a developer of a facial recognition platform that offers innovative solutions for identifying and validating customers in real time. The company specializes in facial non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that securely store biometric identity data on the blockchain. This technology allows customers to engage in various in-store actions, including contactless payments and access to locations, while also providing proof of attendance and personalized loyalty experiences. By leveraging these capabilities, Facenote aims to enhance customer experiences and improve brand loyalty for businesses, enabling them to better understand and meet the needs of their clientele.

ApplyBoard

Series C in 2020
ApplyBoard is a technology company that simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions on a single platform, streamlining the journey from discovery to enrollment. The company operates globally, with headquarters in Kitchener, Ontario, and a dedicated office in Gurugram, India, reflecting its international reach.

Clusterone

Seed Round in 2019
Clusterone, formerly known as Good AI Lab, Inc., is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing a cloud platform designed to aggregate computational resources and facilitate machine learning processes. Founded in 2016, Clusterone offers a distributed machine learning platform that optimizes the training of models using the TensorFlow framework. The company provides a serverless AI operating system that alleviates the burden of infrastructure management from IT teams, allowing them to concentrate on developing AI models instead of handling operational tasks. By enabling data scientists to run machine learning and deep learning workloads efficiently across various infrastructures, Clusterone enhances automation and optimization in deploying AI systems.

ApplyBoard

Series A in 2018
ApplyBoard is a technology company that simplifies the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and educational institutions on a single platform, streamlining the journey from discovery to enrollment. The company operates globally, with headquarters in Kitchener, Ontario, and a dedicated office in Gurugram, India, reflecting its international reach.
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