Candle

Candle

Candle helps friends and couples grow closer daily in just 5 minutes.

New York City, NY
2 employees
Consumer
Seed

Company details

Team Size2
LocationNew York City, NY
IndustryConsumer

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Parth Chopra

Parth Chopra

Co-founder & CTO of Encore - building for the future generation of consumer AI. Prior to this, worked on ads relevance & ranking @ Twitter, and architected changes to the sharing/permissions framework @ Asana. Hobbies: math, thrifting, discovering new music, 3B1B youtube videos, cutting hair

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Alex Ruber

Alex Ruber

Co-founder, CEO @ Encore, building design-first consumer AI products that help people build better habits Ex iOS/Arch Engineer @ Apple Ex Flight Systems/Sequencing Engineer @ NASA JPL Non-technical hobbies: soccer, surfing, art, F1

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.