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Candou Ventures
Venture capital · Menlo Park, CA, United States · North America
Candou Ventures is an early seed round firm that provides the first institutional seed investment to startups. It funds seed rounds and helps portfolio companies raise money from tier-one VCs.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
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Or find every investor that fitsCandou Ventures lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (37%), Enterprise Software (17%) and Healthcare & Biotech (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside AAF Management, Accelerate Blue Fund and Accelerator Centre.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Candou Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Candou Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 17. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 44th | 17 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 37% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 17% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 13% | 15% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 3% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| AAF Management | 1 |
| Accelerate Blue Fund | 1 |
| Accelerator Centre | 1 |
| Artiman Ventures | 1 |
| BIP Ventures | 1 |
| Benhamou Global Ventures | 1 |
| Blue Cloud Ventures | 1 |
| Capital F | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1694%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Candou Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Candou Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jun 2026 | Series A Led |
Round details for Candou Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Candou Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1health connects healthcare systems and organizations to share patient records and information | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| ApplyBoard provides a platform for students to apply to study abroad programs at global universities and colleges. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Axys.ai transforms fragmented enterprise data into a live Knowledge Graph that powers any AI agent | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bodo provides a modern foundation for analytics in the AI era, allowing teams to work in the languages and tools they already know | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cognichip develops artificial intelligence for chip design problems | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Entropy combines advanced AI technology, deep technical expertise and business process redesign to transform complex enterprise operations into reliable, secure and cost-efficient agentic workflows. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Medsien provides remote care management services, including chronic care management and remote patient monitoring, to healthcare organizations. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Mimik develops and provides an operating engine for artificial intelligence systems | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Movellus delivers infrastructure IP to optimize power, performance and reliability for complex chips | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| NinjaTech provides an AI platform that offers various tools and features for tasks such as code generation, content drafting, and research. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Omniscent develops and manufactures next-generation analyzers for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in various industries | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Pockyt provides a platform for global money movement, allowing merchants to collect payments locally and settle them natively, with programmable logic and multi-currency treasury capabilities. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Pyze provides a platform for execution intelligence to transform, automate, and measure business processes with confidence. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Sakuu develops and manufactures advanced energy storage systems, including batteries and supercapacitors, using a dry-process technology platform called Kavian. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| SignalRank invests in Series B financings based on its proprietary scoring model | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- candouventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 15 Jun 2026
- Companies checked
- 17
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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