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

Stealth Startup

We are dedicated to creating a world where nextgen materials can serve as high-value products, replacing the use of water for daily critical needs.

Co-Founder and CEO

Unreasonable

Unreasonable Group builds community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems. The Unreasonable Fellowship is by invitation only and provides a lifetime of support to select entrepreneurs operating at the nexus of impact and profit. I’m grateful to be part of this lifelong Fellowship and the broader Unreasonable community.

Unreasonable Fellowship

Oregon Tilth

Board Member

Re-Nuble

Topics:
Agtech, Entrepreneurship, STEM, Urban Agriculture, Sustainability, Innovation, Startups, Fundraising, Diversity & Inclusion, CleanTech, Food Waste, Urban Waste Management, Smart Cities

Select Appearances:
04/2015 - Speaker, Mary Baldwin University
09/2016-17 - Speaker, NYC Agtech Week
05/2017 - Panelist, Bit by Bits Conference, The Dalton School
09/2017 - Panelist, NYC FoodTank Summit
03/2018 - Speaker, South by Southwest (SXSW) 
03/2018 - Speaker, Growing Healthy Communities Conference 
03/2018 - Panelist, Aglanta 
04/2018 - Panelist, University of Vermont
05/2018 - Speaker, Seeds & Chips
06/2018 - Panelist, Forbes Agtech Summit
03/2019 - Panelist, Circular City Week
04/2019 - Panelist, Yale University
09/2019 - NYC Agtech Week
10/2019 - NYS Innovation Summit
11/2019 - Urban Agriculture Summit
10/2020 -  VEGPRENEUR Summit
10/2020 - Wall Street Green Summit
06/2020 - AERC Conference
10/2021 - Minority Innovation Weekend
11/2021 - American Planning Association - Hindsight Conf
01/2022 - NY Ag Society
03/2022 - Amity Institute of Food Technology (AIFT),

Public Speaker

• Conceptualized and launched an agriculture technology/social enterprise startup
• In 2023, conceptualized and co-wrote the two USDA grant awards (e.g. USDA Climate Smart Partnerships - $4.6M and USDA Fertilizer Production Expansion - $1.4M) secured
• Brought together several cross-disciplinary stakeholder partnerships to support both of our USDA grant awards
• Raised over $9M through a robust network of investors, grants, friends and family, and self financing (48% non-dilutive vs. 52% dilutive)
• Created a go-to-market strategy that led to the development of a $27M sales pipeline for two products prior to commercial availability
• Supervised all R&D, product development efforts, and operations as solo Founder with fractional COO support
• Successfully led a "turn around" effort with limited resources from concept to full product launch

Founder, CEO and President

iMentor

Developed a supportive mentoring relationship with mentee that nurtured her college aspirations, provided a safe feedback soundboard, built critical skills, and guided her through both her high school and college careers.

Mentor

NYC Agriculture Collective

Wild Gift

National fellowship for social entrepreneurs.

Every year, Wild Gift selects a small group of better world entrepreneurs for a 16-month Fellowship. The Fellowship includes mentoring, seed funding, and two wilderness programs that teach leadership, business skills, and build lifelong connections.

www.WildGift.org

Georgetown University

As an interim financial analyst, Pina performed technical data and fiscal analysis work regarding the monitoring and forecasting of utilities usage for the purpose of achieving efficient and cost effective energy use.

Utilities Analyst (Consultant)

MacKay Shields

Managed product based expenses and reviewed revenue calculations, subscription/redemption documentation, cash activity, and audit requests for alternative investment funds. Additionally, Pina was held accountable for daily trade responsibilities for bank debt and credit default swap products.

Alternative Investments Accountant

Held accountable for the daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual reconciliation and reporting of equity and fixed income funds for both separate and institutional accounts. Analyzed data to identify and communicate potential issues and performed research to develop appropriate solutions.

Portfolio Accountant

New York Cares

Managed a group of volunteers ranging from five to twelve members for several projects. Designed and led curriculum for projects including: SAT college preparatory program, an after school tutoring program and personal finance series.  Worked with New York Cares staff and Community Partners to recruit and train volunteers.

Volunteer Team Leader

Founder & CEO of Re-Nuble | A New Farmer | #ClosedLoopAgriculture | Climate Tech | Manufacturing | Circular Economy

Gifted in making the unseen tangible…...

I am a seasoned leader, strategist, and financial analyst. As an agile thinker, I thrive on creating ingenuity in traditional and conservative environments.

Privileged with the facility to think broadly, and to efficiently process, synthesize and communicate complex information, this has allowed me to thrive in creating both people and solution-centric innovations for firms that save money, time, and headaches.

I have worn many hats in my career--startup executive, financial analyst, and business developer. As a result, I have a unique ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects and to navigate complex challenges while providing mentorship to others.  All of these experiences have taught me the following:

--Emotional intelligence and intuition are powerful tools to empower, inspire, and cultivate inclusion in an organization, which exponentially achieves more results

--Wisdom comes in simple reflection and should be practiced as a team

--Assess the risks, fail fast, and learn from failures

--I truly enjoy working with individuals that demonstrate an ability to detach from ego, to stay on topic, to demonstrate dialectical and critical thinking, those that take accountability for their actions and responsibilities, and those that have an appreciation and understanding for nuances.


Specialties: creating synergies between sales, channel, marketing, product, and engineering, rapid prototyping, business development, strategy, business planning, market research, navigating economic development, connecting public policy and product, financial statement analysis and compliance.

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