Anu Vora

Founder and CEO TalentNow

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Anu Vora is a Cincinnati entrepreneur and investor whose work spans three connected things at once: a venture studio, an operating healthcare business, and a talent-technology company. She founded and sold her first company, AdmitAlly, at twenty-five; the difficulty she had finding mental health support in the aftermath of that sale led her to build Mindfully Behavioral Health, which now employs more than four hundred clinicians across Ohio, Kentucky, Colorado and Texas and has delivered over two hundred thousand therapy sessions. In 2020 she founded Candid Ventures, a venture studio backing healthcare and education companies with a stated focus on underrepresented founders, and she is listed by TalentNow as that company’s founder and chief executive. Forbes named her to its 2024 “30 Under 30 Local” list for Cincinnati.

Career Highlights

• Founder and managing partner of Candid Ventures, a healthcare- and education-focused venture studio founded in 2020.
• Founder and chief executive of Mindfully Behavioral Health, a Candid Ventures company operating in-person and telehealth mental health services across four states.
• Listed on TalentNow’s own leadership page as the company’s founder and chief executive.
• Founded and sold AdmitAlly at the age of twenty-five.
• Founder and chief executive of PayTile, a geolocation-based contactless payments company backed through Candid Ventures.
• Named to Forbes’ 2024 “30 Under 30 Local” list for Cincinnati, for her work in mental health.
• Board member of Cintrifuse, Cincinnati’s startup and innovation organisation.

Professional Journey

Vora’s first company was AdmitAlly, which she founded and sold before she turned twenty-six. By her own telling the sale was less a clean ending than the start of the next problem: looking for mental health support afterwards, she found the supply thin and hard to navigate. That experience is the stated origin of Mindfully Behavioral Health, which she founded and leads as chief executive, and which has grown into a multi-state provider employing more than four hundred healthcare professionals across Ohio, Kentucky, Colorado and Texas, delivering care both in person and by telehealth.

In 2020 she established Candid Ventures as the vehicle around that work — a venture studio rather than a passive fund, concentrating on healthcare and education and explicitly oriented towards founders underrepresented in venture-backed entrepreneurship. Mindfully sits inside the Candid portfolio, as does PayTile, a fintech company applying geolocation technology to secure contactless payments, which she founded and ran as chief executive.

Her family’s Vora Ventures, the Cincinnati firm founded by Mahendra Vora, is the connective tissue to TalentNow, a talent-acquisition and vendor-management software business whose board Mahendra Vora chairs. TalentNow’s own leadership page describes Anu Vora as the company’s founder and chief executive, above a board that also includes Viral Vora. The company’s product is positioned as a unified marketplace linking employers to talent across staff augmentation, statement-of-work engagements and direct marketplace hiring, with AI-driven matching and analytics. Readers should note that the connection between her and TalentNow rests on that single company page; the internal verification notes for this profile set out why the “founder” element in particular is doubtful and what a future pass should check.

Outside her own companies she sits on the board of Cintrifuse, the organisation that anchors Cincinnati’s startup ecosystem, and Forbes included her in its 2024 “30 Under 30 Local” list for the city on the strength of her work in mental health.

Education

University of Michigan

Bachelor’s, Political Science and Entrepreneurship

London School of Economics

Additional study in Public Finance