Faraj Aalaei
Founding General Partner @ Candou Ventures
Milpitas, United States
Faraj Aalaei is a seed investor at Candou Ventures in Milpitas focused on Mobile and FinTech. Faraj Aalaei is based out of Santa Clara, California and is the Chief Executive Officer & Founder and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Cognichip and also serves as the Board of Directors of SiTime. Faraj previously worked at Marvell as an Executive Vice President. Faraj Aalaei attended the University of New Hampshire.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Faraj Aalaei invests in
Stages Faraj Aalaei invests in
Countries Faraj Aalaei invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 1 (50%)
- FinTech 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- Wireless 1 (50%)
- Analytics 1 (50%)
Investments
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| SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio. | $5.1M / Seed / Nov 14, 2021 | ||
| Frequencz, is an emerging leader of shared virtual private networks for Enterprises. We brings cloud economics to radio and disrupt the way private networks are built, operated and managed. Our solution delivers innovation within the radio domain that offers foundational change in ROI and profitability for private network operators and Enterprises. | $4.1M / Seed / May 04, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Candou Ventures
Candou is an early seed round firm focused on supporting entrepreneurs with unique and defensible ideas. They are uniquely positioned to help shape your plans into investible businesses, fund your seed round and then help you raise money from tier 1 VCs.
Candou Ventures Contacts
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Faraj Aalaei
Founding General Partner
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Shahin Hedayat
Founding General partner
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Susan Akbarpour
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What does Faraj Aalaei invest in?
Faraj Aalaei invests primarily in Mobile, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Faraj Aalaei last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Faraj Aalaei closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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