Candor Security blog · May 2026
Company blog post arguing that traditional DLP is noisy and brittle, and that context should surface real insider risk faster.
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Candor Security (formerly Haleum) is a San Francisco-based YC W25 startup building an AI-powered insider-risk and DLP platform. Its product correlates communications, identity, endpoint, and security telemetry to surface real insider threats faster, with a focus on behavioral context rather than static rules.
Primary product
AI-powered insider risk management / agentic DLP platform
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Cybersecurity / insider risk management
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Early stage; Y Combinator Winter 2025-backed
Latest round
Y Combinator Winter 2025 · Jan 2025
Jan 2025 · Y Combinator
Investors
Small, focused team building a hard enterprise-security product; the careers page emphasizes high ownership, direct work on core product problems, and close collaboration with founders.
Compensation
A YC job listing for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer showed a San Francisco full-time salary range of $150K-$250K; no broader compensation policy was published.
Pricing
Quote-based enterprise sales; public pricing not listed and the site directs prospects to talk/demo with the team.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $0.43M/year estimated by a public aggregator; this is not company-confirmed.
Candor Security blog · May 2026
Company blog post arguing that traditional DLP is noisy and brittle, and that context should surface real insider risk faster.
LinkedIn · Dec 2025
A teardown post about Haleum's site and discoverability; useful as external evidence that the product and company were publicly visible and actively discussed.
LinkedIn · Dec 2025
Founder announcement that Haleum was accepted into the accelerator, supporting the claim that the company is active in the cybersecurity ecosystem and still building around insider-threat response.
LinkedIn · Dec 2025
Another founder announcement confirming the accelerator acceptance and reinforcing the company's insider-threat/security positioning.
LinkedIn · Oct 2025
Third-party social coverage describing Haleum as a YC W25 insider-risk intelligence company and highlighting its behavioral-telemetry approach.