# Candou Ventures: portfolio, investments and team > Candou Ventures is a vc firm based in United States. 4 investments on record, latest Feb 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/candou-ventures (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United States · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Candou Ventures Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Jun 2026, closing $1M. Last cheque observed Feb 2025. Email Quiet New fund $500K, Jun 2026 VC firm Seed Series A Series B Innovative Technologies Follow Candou Ventures and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fcandou-ventures) Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 4 on record Since the last cheque **627** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$14M** Cheque size, as they say **$500K – $1.0M** Rounds led **0 of 4** Pitch Candou Ventures ## 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:** Seed Series A Series B Growth - **Sectors:** Innovative Technologies - **Based in:** Palo Alto, United States - **Cold pitches:** Not accepted ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **4 appearances** - **2025** 1 round - **Feb** **[Exostellar](https://millionrounds.com/company/exostellar)** Series A · US · Prosperity7 Ventures **$11M** With 6 others - **2021** 2 rounds - **Aug** **[Bodo.ai](https://millionrounds.com/company/bodo-ai)** Series A · US · Candou Ventures **$14M** With 3 others - **Jan** **[KeraCel Inc.](https://millionrounds.com/company/keracel-inc)** Series A · US · Candou Ventures **$14M** With 1 other - **2018** 1 round - **Jun** **[ApplyBoard](https://millionrounds.com/company/applyboard)** Series A · CA · FinSMEs **$13M** With 2 others 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 registration **3 named** FS **Faraj Shahin Aalaei** Managing Member i Filing they signed RT **Richard Thoms** Attorney-in-fact i Filing they signed SS **Shahin Shahin Hedayat** Managing Member i Filing 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 [1health](https://millionrounds.com/company/1health)[Altera](https://millionrounds.com/company/altera)[Bodo](https://millionrounds.com/company/bodo)[Cognichip](https://millionrounds.com/company/cognichip)[Exostellar](https://millionrounds.com/company/exostellar)[Medsien](https://millionrounds.com/company/medsien)[Movellus](https://millionrounds.com/company/movellus)[Pockyt](https://millionrounds.com/company/pockyt)[Pyze](https://millionrounds.com/company/pyze)[Signalrank](https://millionrounds.com/company/signalrank)[applyBoard1-350×263](https://millionrounds.com/company/applyboard) Axys Cima Mimik Ninjatech Oii Omniscent Sakuu Screen Shot 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. New fund on file **$500K** raised in Jun 2026 From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy. ## The cheque Seed Series A Series B Median round joined **$14M** the round, not its cheque Led 0 of 4 rounds **0%** - **Said size:** $500K – $1.0M - **Sole investor:** Never alone - **Last cheque:** Feb 2025 Rounds by stage said on their site - Series A said *4* - Seed said *-* - Series B said *-* - Growth said *-* Cheques by month Led Joined Nov 2023 Oct 2026 **Pitching Candou Ventures?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Recently backed The latest companies Candou Ventures put money into. [**Exostellar** $11M · Feb 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/exostellar)[**Bodo.ai** $14M · Aug 2021](https://millionrounds.com/company/bodo-ai)[**ApplyBoard** $13M · Jun 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/applyboard) ## Quick answers about Candou Ventures ### 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. ### How active is Candou Ventures? 4 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Feb 2025. ### What has Candou Ventures invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Exostellar (Series A, Feb 2025), Bodo.ai (Series A, Aug 2021) and KeraCel Inc. (Series A, Jan 2021). ### How big are Candou Ventures's cheques? The median round it joins is $14M. It says it writes cheques of $500K to $1.0M. ### Is Candou Ventures investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Feb 2025. ### What kind of investor is Candou Ventures? Candou Ventures is a VC firm based in Palo Alto, United States. ### Has Candou Ventures raised a new fund? Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Jun 2026, reporting $500K raised. ### When was Candou Ventures founded? Candou Ventures was founded in 2015. ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=candou-ventures) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=candou-ventures)