Cyrus Akbarpour serves as Technical Partner and CTO-in-Residence at Candou Ventures, bringing over three decades of hands-on experience as a technology executive, enterprise software architect, and serial entrepreneur. As Candou’s chief technical evaluator, Cyrus leads deep-dive architectural diligence across prospective investments, rigorously vetting proprietary IP, codebase viability, cloud infrastructure, and data integrity to ensure portfolio candidates are built on genuinely defensible, enterprise-grade foundations.
Beyond deal evaluation, Cyrus partners directly with portfolio founders as a hands-on technical advisor and sounding board. He works closely with engineering leadership to navigate complex architectural hurdles, optimize data pipelines, and transition early prototypes into scalable, secure enterprise products. His investment focus centers on core enterprise infrastructure, AI control planes, data orchestration, and cloud computing.
Alongside his role at Candou, Cyrus is the CEO and Co-Founder of AXYS, Inc., an enterprise data orchestration platform built to solve context bottlenecks and accelerate secure AI integration. He is also the President and Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Cloud IT (SVCIT), having steered enterprise engineering solutions for hundreds of clients, and has repeatedly served as acting CTO and strategic advisor across Silicon Valley.
Cyrus holds a Master of Science in Software Engineering (MSSE) from Pennsylvania State University and an Executive MBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also a licensed FAA private pilot.