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What does Candou Ventures invest in?
Candou Ventures invests most often at Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Innovative Technologies.
Candou Ventures highlights
- 01
4 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Series A: 100% of its rounds
What they do
Candou is an early seed round firm focused on supporting entrepreneurs with unique and defensible ideas.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $500K – $1.0M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- Innovative Technologies
- Based in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first4 appearances
- 2025
1 round
- Feb
- 2021
2 rounds
- Aug
- Jan
- 2018
1 round
- Jun
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
FSFaraj Shahin AalaeiManaging MemberiFiling they signed
RTRichard ThomsAttorney-in-factiFiling they signed
SSShahin Shahin HedayatManaging MemberiFiling they signed
We also hold 11 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
11 of 19 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.