Candor YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Candor went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2025
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Adarsh AmbatiCEO/Co-Founder
Ansh GuptaCo-Founder
Aditya IyengarFounder

What Candor does

Insider threats cost the average enterprise $17.4M per year and take up to 3 months to contain. Most of those threats (employees leaking IP, contractors staging data for exfil, accounts misusing AI tools like Copilot) get buried in thousands of noisy alerts from traditional security tools. Candor changes this by telling your security team exactly who to watch before they cause damage. Zero tuning, detection from day one, and it actually learns from analyst feedback.

Candor's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Candor, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Candor

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Insider Threat for the Modern Enterprise

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built a security tool that detects insider threats by surfacing exactly who in an organization is likely to cause damage before they do. Our product reduces alert noise by cutting through thousands of alerts from traditional tools, learning from analyst feedback, and requiring zero tuning to work from day one.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where security expertise and enterprise companies are concentrated. Being here helps us build deep customer relationships and iterate quickly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Candor YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Candor's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Candor would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.