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CandorIQ

Headcount and compensation planning for HR and finance

  • Human Resources
  • Finance and Accounting
  • AI Agents

About

CandorIQ gives HR and finance teams one system for planning headcount and pay. Its AI agents build pay bands and job architecture, run compensation cycles, and model hiring plans against the budget: work most companies still do in spreadsheets.

Haris Ikram and Sutthipong Thavisomboon, who had led product and engineering teams from early stage through IPO, started the company in 2023 and went through Y Combinator that summer. As first-generation immigrants, both had struggled to learn their own market value, which is why pay transparency sits at the center of the product.

Array invested in CandorIQ's $4.8M seed round in September 2023, alongside Y Combinator and CRV.

Record

Stage
Seed
Category
Human Resources
Location
San Francisco, California
Team
11-50
Total raised
$4.8M
Array came in at
Seed, 2023

Founders

  • Haris Ikram

    Founder & CEO

    Previously SVP of product at Blend, head of product and design at Checkr, and a senior director of product at Salesforce.

  • Sutthipong Thavisomboon

    Founder & CTO

    Previously chief architect at Slync, after nearly a decade as an engineer at Salesforce, where he rose to principal.

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