Kandou
Kandou (Kandou AI) is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2011 by Amin Shokrollahi and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. It designs high-speed, energy-efficient chip-to-chip interconnect technology built on its proprietary Copper MIMO / Chord Signaling architecture, which turns noise in copper channels into usable bandwidth for massively scalable AI systems. Products include the Glasswing chiplet interconnect IP, the Regli PCIe retimer, the Matterhorn USB4 retimer, the Zetti PCIe switch, and AI Fabric memory/networking platforms. Chord signaling has been adopted into JEDEC and OIF industry specifications. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners across multiple rounds, Kandou raised a $225M round in March 2026 led by Maverick Silicon with strategic participation from SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence, and Alchip. This is a hardware/semiconductor IP company with no public REST/GraphQL API, SDK, or developer platform surface.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Kandou the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Kandou scores 12.3/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Kandou
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kandou. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Kandou — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 6
The organization behind the API
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