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Candou Ventures

Candou Ventures

Menlo Park, Californiacandouventures.com

Overview

Candou Ventures is an early seed round firm focused on supporting entrepreneurs with unique and defensible ideas . The firm offers early stage portfolio companies capital, attention, and experience that enable them to focus on innovations that have impact on the economy and humanity . Candou Ventures invests across Platforms, AI, SAAS, IoT and Cloud Infrastructure, and does not invest in life sciences, consumer products, B2C and mobile apps .

Year Founded

2015

Portfolio Companies

11

Investments

Candou Ventures investments
CompanyDateStageLead
CognichipApr 2026Series ACo-investor
CognichipMay 2025SeedCo-investor
ExoStellarFeb 2025Series A ExtensionCo-investor
SignalRank CorporationJan 2024Seed RoundCo-investor
ExoStellarSep 2023Series ACo-investor

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SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth

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Firmographic Details

HeadquartersMenlo Park, California
Year Founded2015

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