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Candor (YC W25) — Protect your data and stop insider risk

Candor is agentic data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management. Employees share sensitive data with third parties and email source code to personal inboxes every day.

Candor is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Protect your data and stop insider risk. The founders listed are Ansh Gupta (Founder), Aditya Iyengar (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 20, 2025).

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Candor

New accelerator entry · 2025-02-20 · the record

Winter 2025
batch
3
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2025
Announced2025-02-20
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size3
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Security
SectorsCybersecurity, AI
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://candor.security/
Founded2024
YC group partnerBrad Flora
Previously known asPhysion Works, Sophris, Mirror, Anomaly, Bastion, Haleum

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Candor is agentic data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management. Employees share sensitive data with third parties and email source code to personal inboxes every day. For fast-moving companies, protecting these crown jewels and customer trust is core to closing deals. Legacy DLP tools can cross off compliance checkboxes but flood security teams with false positives. Candor's AI agents understand both the data movement and the person behind it, giving lean security teams broad coverage without the noise.

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