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Candu.ai (or Candu) is a San Francisco-based tech startup that aims to be a leader in the no-code development platform movement. Candu designs and markets a native no-code UI component builder that enables teams to create personalized user experiences (UX), thus bridging development and communication gaps between marketing and product functions. The Candu platform is meant to rapidly refine online user experiences and minimize the chance that customers will churn to a competitor before changes can be implemented. It allows teams from across an organization to continuously and independently build the UI components required for feature adoption, user onboarding, and product announcements. Changes are executed directly in the core application and without coding.

Background
The founders of Candu, Jonathan Anderson and Michele Riccardo Esposito, saw the need to provide for creative development of SaaS products, regardless of coding experience level. With a background in various aspects of SaaS, except coding, Anderson often resorted to using other software packages for routine tasks like creating emails, decks, and pop-ups. Alternately, as a product engineer, Esposito witnessed the challenge many companies face when software engineers had to choose between handling priorities for the product roadmap and supporting customer success teams.

Platform
The Candu platform enables a type of web development concept, specifically for SaaS, which allows both non-programmers and programmers to create applications using a graphical user interface, instead of writing code. Through a selection of customizable templates and a drag and drop editor, Candu equips users with the ability to build, embed, and iterate both web and mobile applications. Candu aims to create value for both engineering and no-code teams by enabling organizations to:
 * Build and edit UI components through non-technical teams
 * Free engineering resources for work on strategic projects and product roadmap tasks
 * Provide analytics concerning usage so that complex projects generate data points to allow optimization directly in the product

Features
Candu’s components: Candu integrates with leading product engagement platforms, including Segment, Intercom, Pendo, Wistia, YouTube, and Vimeo.
 * Embed responsively into the page so that they blend in with ‘hard-coded’ UI features but can be updated with the Candu editor
 * Occur in line with other page elements
 * Are similar to other HMTL components but can be updated with a drag-and-drop editor

History and Funding
Candu was founded in 2018 and has raised $7.5 million from investors including Two Sigma Ventures, Angular Ventures, and Haystack. Candu’s technology has been adopted by companies including Adobe, Thought Industries, and Gorgias.