About Us

Synapsify is a new content discovery and text analytics company that believes that smarter content leads to a smarter world. To achieve this mission we harness innovative technology that unlocks the DNA of language to deliver intelligent search and insight that adapts to each client and their respective needs. We are proud to be both a Washington DC technology company and a portfolio company of Fortify.vc.   If you are overwhelmed with your written content or seek to understand your content on an entirely new and exciting level, please contact us, we would be glad to show you how we could help you for the benefit of your own business needs as well as your customers.

Management

 

Stephen Candelmo is Synapsify’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder.  Mr. Candelmo is the former original co-founder of Fedbid, Inc., the leading reverse auction exchange for federal procurement where he was responsible for all strategic development and partnerships for the company.  Stephen possesses over 14 years of experience and expertise in corporate and technology matters as a corporate attorney where he was involved in more than $2.5 billion worth of transactions for several nationally known law firms representing both Fortune 100 and venture backed companies.  Mr. Candelmo has been a featured speaker and writer for several conferences and publications regarding start-up legal  and technology issues and growth strategies.  Stephen is a proud alumni of Mindshare and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, University of Akron School of Law, and Georgetown University School of Law. Stephen and his wife and two children live in Bethesda, MD.

 

Lawrence Au is Synapsify’s Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder.  Mr. Au is the former start-up founder of Q-Phrase, Lumifi and Sauriel, LLC.  Lawrence possesses over 30 years of experience and expertise in large scale systems and databases, text analytics and search, cognitive analysis, and artificial intelligence algorithms involving linguistics. He is the inventor of U.S. text analytics and search patents 7,711,672; 7,536,374; 7,526,466; 6,778,970; 5,937,400; 5,829,004, 5,355,473 and inventor of U.S. sentiment search engine patent applications 13167640 and 61529377.  Mr. Au is a graduate of Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in Operations Research.  Lawrence and his wife and son live in Vienna, VA.