Candid

The hiring platform for exceptional talent

trycandid.com

1-10

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 30, 2026

Overview

Candid is an early-stage, founder-led embedded hiring partner that uses AI agents to source, outreach, and schedule candidates for hard-to-fill engineering, product, design, and go-to-market roles.

Primary product

AI agents for embedded hiring / recruiting

Founded

2025

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

1-10

Work style

Onsite

Industry

HR Tech

Sub-industry

Embedded recruiting / AI hiring automation

Offices

San Francisco, California, United States

Business model

B2B

subscription

success fee

embedded hiring partner

Funding

Stage

Seed

Total raised

$3.5M

Latest round

Early Stage VC · Mar 2025

Latest amount

$3M

Early Stage VC

Mar 2025

$3M

Seed

Jan 2025 · Y Combinator

$1M

Accelerator/Incubator

Jan 2025 · Y Combinator

People & investors

Leadership

Rami Ghanem

Founder

Investors

1984 Ventures

Rebel Fund

Sapienta Venture Capital

Y Combinator

Work & culture

Early-stage, founder-led, high-urgency hiring team; public signals emphasize in-person San Francisco hiring and high-bar hard-to-fill roles.

Work style

Onsite

Compensation

Public hiring post advertised a Founding Engineer at $250k-$300k plus 2-5% equity and a Talent Engineer at $200k-$250k plus 1-3% equity, both SF-only and in-person.

Product & market

Pricing

$500/month per role plus a 15% success fee

Differentiators

—Embedded hiring partner model
—AI agents handle sourcing, outreach, and scheduling
—Learns the hiring bar from role preferences, target companies, and job descriptions
—Slack-integrated scheduling
—25+ ATS integrations
—SOC 2 Type II with isolated data
—Calibrated via RLHF

Technology

Vercel

AWS

Slack integrations

ATS integrations

RLHF

SOC 2 Type II

isolated data

browser and desktop agents

Customers

companies hiring engineering, product, design, and go-to-market talent

teams filling high-bar, hard-to-fill roles

Latest news

I'm opening a small number of invites to Candid

LinkedIn · Jan 2026

Rami Ghanem described Candid as a private talent platform for exceptional people and said he was opening a small number of invites.

New: Candid talent scout program

LinkedIn · Jan 2026

Candid launched a talent scout program that rewards scouts who refer top talent when their referrals get placed.

I am hiring at Candid (www.trycandid.com)

LinkedIn · Jan 2026

Founder Rami Ghanem posted that he is hiring at Candid, calling out a Founding Engineer and a Talent Engineer, both SF-only and in-person, with compensation ranges and equity.

How Candid is Building the Future of Talent Acquisition

Reforgers

Third-party profile describing Candid as a 2025-founded B2B talent-acquisition platform and a Winter 2025 Y Combinator participant.

Jobs and careers at Candid

14 jobs at Candid

Account Executive - British Columbia & Alberta, Canada

On-site

Sales

British Columbia & Alberta, Canada; Other

1w ago

On-site

Full-time