# Susan Akbarpour

> Susan Akbarpour is a startup investor at Candou Ventures (Atherton). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Candou Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/candou-ventures)
- Location: Atherton, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanakbarpour/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SusanAkbarpour
- Website: https://candouventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008305954671&fref=ts

Susan Akbarpour is a startup investor at Candou Ventures in Atherton. As a serial entrepreneur, investor, media guru, software developer, board member, community advocate and fundraiser, Susan has over 30 years of hands-on experience in building innovative products and businesses in software, retail and media industries.During the last 10 years after graduating from Stanford University Graduate School of Businesswith the Master of Science (MSc), Management, she has made it her mission to develop, invest in and leverage consumer-centric technologies that can end the internet consumer as-a-product model.Some of these technologies include omnichannel marketplace as-a-service, universal shopping cart, Headless and API based commerce, cross-pollinated and contactless commerce (C-Commerce), blockchain-based influence marketing, tokenized content monetization, smart contract as a service, shop-able content publishing platform as-a-service and very recently micro-mobility and AI based face recognition.Susan Akbarpour has joint Candou, a seed investment fund since 2016 as a Partner and works on the sourcing, development and support of startups focused on SaaS, AI, blockchain and consumer internet.Through her family office Monjeri Investment LLC which she started along with her serial entrepreneur husband, Faraj Aalaei (with 2 IPOs and multiple M&A under his belt) and and later on in Candou Ventures, Susan has invested in over 40 private and public companies and had multiple successful exits and unicorns in her portfolio such as NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NBY), Beceem (Acquired by Broadcom), Aduro Biotech ( ADRO ), Made In Space (Acquired by Redwire) amoung others.She is also a limited partner in other funds such as Practical VC and Venture University Venture Partners.Susan has received multiple media, community and business awards and spoken at various conferences. She is also a contributor writer to Forbes, IPR Journal, Disruptor daily and is frequently featured in mainstream media.

## About Candou Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

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.

3 contacts available at Candou Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Faraj Aalaei | Founding General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/faraj-aalaei |
| Shahin Hedayat | Founding General partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shahin-hedayat |
| Susan Akbarpour | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susan-akbarpour |

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