# Candor

> Candor (YC W25) is a San Francisco cybersecurity startup building agentic data loss prevention and insider risk management. Instead of drowning security teams in false positives like legacy DLP tools, Candor's AI agents watch both the data movement and the person behind it - stitching together the story of who is about to leak source code, exfiltrate IP, or misuse AI tools - so lean teams know exactly who to watch before damage is done.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Adarsh Ambati (CEO & Co-Founder), Ansh Gupta (CTO & Co-Founder), Aditya Iyengar (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 3-5 employees
- **Products:** Candor Agentic DLP, Insider Risk Management, Analyst-in-the-loop detection
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 (W25) batch., Backed by Y Combinator and Transpose Platform Management., Founding team with experience across NASA, Uber, JPMorgan, AMD, and Flutterflow.

## Products & services

- **Candor Agentic DLP** — AI-agent-based data loss prevention that monitors sensitive data movement - source code, IP, documents shared with third parties - and evaluates the context and intent of the person behind each action to cut false positives.
- **Insider Risk Management** — Surfaces exactly who a security team should watch before an incident, correlating signals across identity, endpoint, and data tools; detects contractors staging data for exfiltration and misuse of AI tools like Copilot.
- **Analyst-in-the-loop detection** — Detection that works from day one with zero tuning and continuously improves by learning from analyst feedback rather than manual rule configuration.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 (W25) batch.
- Backed by Y Combinator and Transpose Platform Management.
- Founding team with experience across NASA, Uber, JPMorgan, AMD, and Flutterflow.
- Reframed data loss prevention around the person and intent rather than static rules and baselines.

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Joined Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch as Candor (formerly Haleum).
- **2025-02** — Public positioning highlighting help for defense, energy, and biotech companies protecting sensitive data.
- **2025** — Shipped agentic DLP and insider risk platform positioned against legacy false-positive-heavy tools; hiring full-stack engineers in San Francisco.

## Links

- Website: https://candor.security
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/candorsec

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Last updated: 2026-07-31