Candou Ventures
Candou Ventures is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA investing in Fintech, Other, Consumer. The firm typically writes $50K–$2.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $50K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 7 listed
- Stage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other, Consumer
- HQ
- Palo Alto, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-25
Seed, Pre-Seed
$50K – $2.0M
2+ companies
7 partners
Investment Thesis
Candou Ventures invests in early-stage tech companies with a focus on fintech, consumer financial innovation, and potentially underserved populations.
How Candou Ventures invests
Candou Ventures is a vc firm based in Palo Alto, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on Fintech, Other, Consumer. It does not invest in Hardware, Biotech.
Candou Ventures typically writes checks of $50K–$2.0M per investment.
Candou Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Revolut, Supervest.
Partners & Team
Gary Zhang
Founding Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
Revolut
Supervest
- •Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $50K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Susan Akbarpour, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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