Kandou

Kandou is a fabless semiconductor company that offers differentiated and fundamental interconnect technology.

Kandou's mission is to continuously improve the way the world connects and communicates.

Kandou was founded in 2011 by Amin Shokrollahi. The company is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Europe, North America and Asia.

 

Kandou enables a better-connected world by offering disruptive technology through licensing and standard products that empower the devices we use every day to become smaller, more energy efficient and more cost effective.

 

Kandou has a strong IP portfolio that includes Chord™ signaling, which has been adopted into industry specifications by JEDEC and the OIF. Kandou’s solutions unlock new capabilities for customer systems and devices ranging from consumer electronics to datacenters, AI and machine learning, and high-performance computing.

 

Kandou is also launch Regli, the multiprotocol retimer family member for PCI Express® (PCIe®) 5.0 specification and CXL™ 2.0. The solution supports the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interconnect standard and Compute Express Link (CXL™) for data centers.

 

Kandou is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, DC Investment Partners, Swisscom Ventures,, Forestay Capital, Climb Ventures, Swiss Select Opportunities, Columbia Lake Partners, Fayerweather Capital Partners, and others. The company raised $72.3M in a new round on Sep 13, 2023. This brings Kandou's total funding to $278.7M to date.

 


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  • Year founded: 2011
  • Funding Info: $278.7M over 8 Rounds (Latest Funding Type: Venture- Series Unknown)
  • Yearly Revenue: NA
  • Employee Size: 51-200
  • Business Valuation: NA
  • City/Town: Lausanne
  • State: Vaud
  • Country: Switzerland
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