DPI CAPITAL

Candice Rezvanian serves as the Director of Operations at DPI Capital, where she oversees all aspects of the fund’s operational strategy and execution. Her responsibilities include fund formation, managing service provider relationships, and leading contract negotiations to ensure seamless operations. She drives portfolio management processes, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while coordinating audits, tax filings, and investor reporting. Candice also manages DPI Capital’s tech stack and data systems, optimizing efficiency and accuracy across the firm’s operations.

In addition to operational oversight, Candice plays a critical role in fostering strong LP relations by delivering transparent communication and tailored reporting. She also leads efforts in event planning, sponsorship relations, and marketing communications, strengthening DPI Capital’s brand presence and stakeholder engagement. Her expertise extends to selecting and managing service providers, ensuring alignment with the fund’s strategic goals. With a focus on operational excellence, she implements best practices across compliance, portfolio monitoring, data management, and external engagement to support DPI Capital’s growth and success.

Director of Operations

Keyhorse Capital

Advises Keyhorse Capital in venture development, operations, and strategy.

Advisor

Served as VP of Operations at Keyhorse before transitioning to a current Advisory capacity. 

Keyhorse Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm supporting a thriving community of entrepreneurs willing to go the distance to build and grow innovative companies. 

Keyhorse Capital is the venture arm of Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC).

VP, Ops

Legible.vc

Legible Helps Venture Capital Investors Build Scalable Operations with Proven Systems and Coaching.

Note: Legible does not source investors for startups because of conflicts of interest, nor does it source LPs for VC firms.

Founder and CEO

Embarc Collective

Supporting Florida's most driven and focused tech entrepreneurs to build bold, scalable, thriving companies.

Young Professionals Board Member

Auxin Labs

Supported Auxin Labs and its early venture community, fostering growth through shared knowledge, collective building, and strategic investing.

Advisory Board Member

Strut Consulting

Strut leadership team member and VC Operations Consultant to Strut's community of venture capital firms.

VC Operations Expert

Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation

Venture operations generalist planning and executing on numerous facets of venture firm operations, including but not limited to investment evaluation, LP communications and reporting, development and implementation of the investment process, post-investment support, programming, tech stack, services, and communities to support portfolio companies, investors, entrepreneur support organizations, and universities.

Venture Finance, VP of Ops

Florida Funders

Led Florida Funders' post-investment practice in a Platform role to support portfolio companies in their greatest areas of need. 
Engaged subject matter experts and investors to become Advisors to portfolio companies.
Curated a network of vendors who added value to portfolio companies.
Curated meaningful content and events to provide value and build community between entrepreneurs and various stakeholders in the community.
Aided the Deal Team in determining companies to invest in and support.

Director of Founder Success

Radicle Capital

Managed portfolio of early to growth-stage investments generating a social and environmental impact, helping entrepreneurs reach scale. Sourced + evaluated companies for initial or follow-on investment. Notable investments: SoFi and Spensa Technologies.

Portfolio Manager

Foxhollow Farm

Aided in pivoting business from wholesale to direct to consumer e-commerce model and consulted on various branding and marketing initiatives for a grassfed beef business.

Special Projects Manager, Startup Business Consultant

✅ 10 years of experience in Venture Capital 
✅ 25,000+ startups evaluated in career
✅ $100M+ fundraised from institutional LPs
✅ Managed pipeline as large as 10K companies + 20 associates
✅ Front-office + back-office 
✅ Investment + operations strategy and execution
✅ Background in agribusiness and impact investing
✅ Built and scaled early teams
✅ Direct and fund of fund investing

What other people say about me -

"Candice was instrumental in helping our team streamline the deal flow processes across our existing tech stack. We were under-utilizing the capabilities of technologies like Airtable. She advised us on using the tools at our disposal to save our team our most precious resource -- time -- enabling us to focus more on our core diligence work. Her experience architecting processes and leveraging data to evolve is clear, and we're happy to learn from her leadership. Supply Change highly recommends working with Candice; she will be an accelerator to any team that she engages with." 
- Supply Change Capital

"No doubt about it, Candice is solid - she is equally effective, whether adeptly supporting an effort in the background or front and center commanding and controlling a room. It is easy to pick up on her sincere feeling of ownership and observe as it reassures a team. These attributes were indispensable to our firm as she helped us build and implement our improved investment operations. She has a healthy and refreshing #NoFilter when necessary - if you're a fan of cutting through the bull. With Candice, not only does the train run on time, but it's going to a valuable and compelling destination." 
- Kelby Price, Managing Partner, Keyhorse Capital

“Candice's due diligence and deal flow management materials are unmatched! The material is intentional and thorough, covering the breadth and depth of each area appropriately. During group office hours, Candice is an amazing facilitator, taking the time to address everyone's questions and putting in time outside the sessions to be helpful. As an associate at an emerging fund, I found the course especially helpful in giving me actionable steps and proven methods to bring to our team to improve our processes.”
- Marigrace Ragsdale, VC Investor

Candice Rezvanian

Epistemix

Epistemix Lab is empowering organizations to pilot innovative projects across public health, urban planning, policy design, and beyond – all within a low-risk environment that fosters realistic simulations and actionable insights.

As a Fellow, I’ll be working at the intersection of corporate AI strategy and simulation tech, alongside Train4AI.

My work will delve into use cases such as:
Workforce Optimization: Leveraging synthetic populations to model and optimize team structures, skill development, and organizational resilience.
Augmentation of AI and Human Collaboration: Exploring how ABM can simulate and enhance the synergy between AI tools and human expertise within corporate settings.

I'm eager to collaborate with industry leaders and academic advisors to unlock the transformative potential of ABM and synthetic data in workforce planning.

Research Fellow

Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

1. Led product management for MIT’s GenAI-powered entrepreneurship platform (Orbit), driving the product from concept to launch in 2 weeks and scaling it from 0 to 13,000+ active users with 78% monthly retention within the first year.
2. Crafted product messaging for demo days and investor events, enabling sales teams to secure 12+ strategic partnerships

Associate Director

Techstars

1. Conducted technical due diligence on AI solutions for 15+ portfolio companies, providing clear recommendations that influenced $2M+ investment decisions
2. Performed deep-dive competitor research across emerging AI and healthcare markets, presenting findings that shaped product positioning for 5 portfolio companies

Product Associate

MIT Open Learning

•	Performed extensive research and analysis into curriculum for teaching industry 4.0 manufacturing skills to community colleges in the US in collaboration with MassTech.
•	Served in an integral role by administering extensive data analysis through effective utilization of statistical tools to understand the training motivations of employees of various manufacturing industries in the US.
•	Dispensed operational and administrative support to senior personnel at the lab through employment of expertise.
•	Carried out the creation, updating, and maintenance of a wide range of reports and documents as part of assigned duties.

Research Assistant

Taxie

•	Administered field user interviews and ethnographic interviews with ride-share drivers in Boston to ensure success.
•	Achieved a finalist position in MIT Pitch, MIT FUSE, MIT Accelerate, and MIT $!00K competitions.
•	Led the creation and development of a case study in partnership with MIT Sloan School of Management taught in Entrepreneurial Experimentation course.

Co-Founder

ZAGENO Inc.

•	Coordinated and facilitated interviews with employees from operations, customer success management, and the development team to gather requirements for obtaining out of the box Order Management System (OMS).
•	Navigated the organization of demos of Oracle OMS, Adobe OMS, Salesforce OMS, and SAP Commerce Cloud.
•	Led the creation and development of the product feature roadmap through employment of customer feedback gathered by the customer success management team and insights from cross-functional teams in the organization to improve average order value.
•	Conducted extensive market research and analysis to identify opportunities and product gaps to achieve success.
•	Performed the organization, coordination, and facilitation of regular meetings with senior personnel and other team members.

Product Manager

MIT Hyperloop III

•	Oversaw the raising of $30k in grants and sponsorship deals, including licenses for technologies to be used by engineers in the team to compete in Elon Musk’s Boring Company’s competition in 2021.
•	Played a key role by presiding over and coordinating logistics of heavy machinery from Ohio to Las Vegas, the site of the competition.
•	Carried out the procurement, purchasing, and procurement of team merchandise for the competition as part of assigned duties.
•	Achieved substantial success by securing press coverage with Boston Globe and MIT Engineering News.
•	Effectively administered all aspects of programs and projects from inception through to completion to ensure success.
•	Closely collaborated and communicated with team members and various other personnel on a daily basis.

Program Manager

Parzenn Partners

•	Carried out the effective administration of A/B tests into the product and conducted the monitoring and evaluation of results.
•	Oversaw the creation and generation of product and business recommendations to deliver an exceptional user experience utilizing analytical models created in R.
•	Demonstrated a track record of success by achieving a 70% increase in beta requests for the product launch of a new dashboard feature.

Somuprasad and Co

•	Spearheaded the development of an internal orders and inventory management system and process in collaboration with the engineering team.
•	Operated with a strong and ongoing focus on driving increases in efficiency and transparency, leading to $75k in cost savings annually.
•	Led the delivery of initial technical and sales support for new and existing customer inquiries as part of assigned duties.
•	Cooperated effectively with more specialized in-house technical experts to support 4 enterprise customer accounts valued at $45k, approximately 5% of organization’s revenue.

Assistant Technical Sales Manager

Associate Director Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

From the very beginning of my career, I knew that I wasn't cut out for just one thing. I had a taste for adventure, a hunger for diversity, and a thirst for knowledge. That's why I dove headfirst into sales, technical sales, product management, and program management, and even co-founded a few companies. I was a jack of all trades, and I loved it. But what really set me apart was my ability to jump into new industries and learn on the fly. I've gone from hyperloop to e-commerce, mobility to learning, and everything in between. And you know what? I've loved every minute of it.

As time went on, I started to notice something interesting. I had a unique gift for seeing connections that others couldn't. I could draw parallels between different industries, ideas, and people in ways that left others scratching their heads. And that's when I started to think about making the jump from product management to venture capital.

It wasn't an easy decision, mind you. Venturing into the world of VC would require me to learn new skills, adapt to a new mindset, and carve out a new path for myself. But I was determined to make a difference, and I knew that this was the best way to do it.

You see, most of the rooms I entered in the world of startups and venture capital were anything but diverse. The same old faces, the same old ideas, and the same old biases ruled the day. I knew I had to do something about that. I had the skills, drive, and vision to help bring new voices to the table. To find startup founders with world-changing ideas and help them bring those ideas to life. To connect them with the talent, technology, funds, and networks they needed to succeed.

And so I made the leap, and it's been a wild ride ever since. I've worked with all sorts of startup founders, from all different backgrounds and industries. I've helped them build their companies, forge new connections, and overcome every obstacle that came their way. And along the way, I've been able to draw on everything I've learned throughout my career - from sales to program management to product management and beyond.

It hasn't always been easy, but it's been an adventure. And I know that I'm making a difference. Every time I help a diverse group of founders brings their ideas to life, every time I break down old barriers and build new connections, I know that I'm doing my part to make the world of startups a more vibrant, inclusive, and exciting place.

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