Candou Ventures

Candou is an early seed round firm focused on supporting entrepreneurs with unique and defensible ideas. They are uniquely positioned to help shape your plans into investible businesses, fund your seed round and then help you raise money from tier 1 VCs.

Shahin Hedayat

Founding General Partner

Laleh Masnavi

Operating Partner

Leela Najafi

Associate

13 past transactions

NinjaTech AI

Seed Round in 2023
MyNinja.ai is your SuperGPT AI Assistant Get tasks done using state-of-the-art AI agents and the world's best LLMs for $10/month OUR MISSION: Make everyone more productive by democratizing access to the best AI agents and foundational models in the world.

Medsien

Seed Round in 2022
Medsien offers comprehensive remote care management services powered by artificial intelligence, integrating various care management programs into a single platform. The company focuses on enhancing patient engagement and outcomes through personalized support and streamlined operations. Medsien's technology enables healthcare providers to efficiently manage chronic care, remote patient monitoring, and related services, ultimately improving the patient experience.

Movellus

Series B in 2022
Movellus develops process portable and ultra-low power analog IPs. Its roducts include PLLs, DLLs, and LDOs, that are optimized per design.

Bodo.ai

Series A in 2021
Bodo.ai is an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics, scaling past 10,000 cores and petabytes of data with unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. Leveraging unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, Bodo is helping F500 customers solve some of the world’s most massive data analysis problems. And doing so in a fraction of traditional time, complexity, and cost, all while leveraging the simplicity and flexibility of native Python. Developers can deploy Bodo on any infrastructure, from a laptop to a public cloud. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh, PA, the team of passionate technologists aims to radically accelerate the world of data analytics. http://bodo.ai #LetsBodo

SignalRank

Seed Round in 2021
SignalRank created The SignalRank Index (https://signalrank.ai) It uses a heuristic and ML capital allocation engine to qualify Index entrants at Series B, supporting its seed stage and Series A partners to fulfill their pro-rata rights. It has completed many Series B investments on behalf of partners. The goal is to build an index of the best private assets and enable public market investors to benefit from early-stage growth companies. It addresses liquidity concerns in venture capital by encapsulating MOIC in an Index share. Once listed the MOIC effectively becomes DPI.

Algopix

Seed Round in 2021
Based in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, Algopix is an early stage startup backed up by top-tier investors with offices in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel. Algopix is the only place to understand market share, pricing, and promotions of your competitors and category using real-time digital point of sale data. As an end-to-end product market analysis platform for the multi-trillion dollar eCommerce industry, Algopix was created to provide Brands, CPGs, and Marketplaces the data they need to make educated decisions. The founders have extensive experience in eCommerce having previously owned a successful eCommerce marketing agency (acquired in 2016). After spending time working hand-in-hand with brands and marketplaces to optimize their online sales, they realized there was a better, technology-driven solution of product market analysis through smart, data-driven technology. Algopix utilizes proprietary algorithms to aggregate critical data points from global online marketplaces around the world and is working with the largest companies to provide price and demand level data, as well as marketing and sourcing actionable insights.

Bodo.ai

Series A in 2021
Bodo.ai is an extreme-performance parallel compute platform for data analytics, scaling past 10,000 cores and petabytes of data with unprecedented efficiency and linear scaling. Leveraging unique automatic parallelization and the first inferential compiler, Bodo is helping F500 customers solve some of the world’s most massive data analysis problems. And doing so in a fraction of traditional time, complexity, and cost, all while leveraging the simplicity and flexibility of native Python. Developers can deploy Bodo on any infrastructure, from a laptop to a public cloud. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Pittsburgh, PA, the team of passionate technologists aims to radically accelerate the world of data analytics. http://bodo.ai #LetsBodo

Frequencz

Seed Round in 2021
Frequencz, is an emerging leader of shared virtual private networks for Enterprises. We brings cloud economics to radio and disrupt the way private networks are built, operated and managed. Our solution delivers innovation within the radio domain that offers foundational change in ROI and profitability for private network operators and Enterprises.

Pockyt

Seed Round in 2021
Through one simple integration to Pockyt, businesses can enable the acceptance of a growing suite of global payment methods, both online and in-store.

Facenote

Convertible Note in 2020
Face Token is the first NFT that stores your customer’s biometric identity in the blockchain.Enhance your in-store customers experiences by providing an exclusive access to a world of digital opportunities.

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. Through its platform and team of experts, the application process is streamlined from discovery and application to enrollment, assisting thousands of students in pursuing their dreams of studying abroad. In 2023, ApplyBoard was named one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada by Deloitte as part of its Fast 50 and Fast 500 rankings. This marked the fifth consecutive year that ApplyBoard was recognized by Deloitte as one of North America’s fastest-growing companies. The ApplyBoard Team has grown rapidly in the past 8 years, employing more than 1,200 team members. The ApplyBoard headquarters is located in downtown Kitchener, Ontario, a dedicated office in Gurugram, India, and team members in 30 countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.

Clusterone

Seed Round in 2019
Clusterone is a deep learning platform that offers infrastructure freedom and flexible workflows data scientists love.

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. Through its platform and team of experts, the application process is streamlined from discovery and application to enrollment, assisting thousands of students in pursuing their dreams of studying abroad. In 2023, ApplyBoard was named one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada by Deloitte as part of its Fast 50 and Fast 500 rankings. This marked the fifth consecutive year that ApplyBoard was recognized by Deloitte as one of North America’s fastest-growing companies. The ApplyBoard Team has grown rapidly in the past 8 years, employing more than 1,200 team members. The ApplyBoard headquarters is located in downtown Kitchener, Ontario, a dedicated office in Gurugram, India, and team members in 30 countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.
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