HR & recruiting

CandorIQ

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CandorIQ is software to manage Headcount and Compensation planning. Employees are +70% of all OPEX and yet still managed in sheets & email. We manage all people spend in 1 platform, integrated into your Finance & HR stack. Product capabilities include: - Headcount & backfill planning - Headcount budget scenarios across departments - Merit cyc

Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

CandorIQ is software to manage Headcount and Compensation planning. Employees are +70% of all OPEX and yet still managed in sheets & email. We manage all people spend in 1 platform, integrated into your Finance & HR stack.

Product capabilities include:

- Headcount & backfill planning

- Headcount budget scenarios across departments

- Merit cycle planning

- Analytics including employee churn, hiring win/loss, cash burn

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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HR & recruitingWorkflow automationBusinessesMid marketSubscription

Product & workflow

Replace messy spreadsheets, emails, and Slack threads with structured workflows that connect hiring requests, approvals, and ATS data in one system with the right visibility for every stakeholder.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-19

Customers & use cases

The HR Agent helps People teams understand what’s happening across the org—and take action faster.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-19

Pricing

Compensation Planning Compensation & Total Rewards $9 / Employee per month Contact sales

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-27

Founders & team

Haris Ikram

Founder

Founder & CEO at CandorIQ. Former Head of Product at Checkr (YC) & Salesforce. MBA at University of Chicago, BSc of Computer Engineering at KFUPM.

LinkedIn X
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Sutthipong Thavisomboon

Founder

Founder & CTO at CandorIQ. Former Chief Architect at Series B Startup & Principal Engineer at Salesforce Einstein (Lead AI). MS Computer Science at Stanford University.

LinkedIn
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

Origins

We each individually faced the problem of financial planning for orgs whether it as headcount spend, approvals, compensation decisions. We built custom solutions at Checkr, Blend and Slync. With our experience in HR tech, and thus we also knew the ecosystem. No solution completely solved the problem so based on our domain expertise and experience with the pain we set out to build CandorIQ

Founder account As recorded 2026-09-15

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Operating · 4 of 6 areas documented

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Company website: home Checked 2026-10-19

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