Pär Lindhe
FounderFounder/Product Development / UX lead at Heysan
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area
FoundedHeysan · YC
About
Pär Lindhe co-founded Heysan, a mobile cross-protocol messaging platform, which was later acquired. He subsequently developed Candid, a recruitment communication software serving paying customers with high retention.
Founder/Product Development / UX lead at HeysanYC W07
Intro paths
YC
Pär went through Y Combinator (Winter 2007) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Pär can intro founders to Heysan's investors below.
Heysan's investors · 2
Co-founders at Heysan
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Gustaf AlstromerFounder/CEO
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Marie BrattbergFounder/Product Manager
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Parham Michael OssarehFounder/developer, tech dude
Experience
- MVPSenior Product Manager • AI Enablementcurrent2025 — presentStockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
- CarmackProduct Manager, Product discovery lead, and Founder2015 — 2025Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area
- RebtelHead of innovation team / product / mobile applications2013 — 2015Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area
- DobermanInteraction Design / UX lead2011 — 2013
- EF LabsSenior Product Manager, Social learning2010 — 2011Shanghai, China
- Heysan IncCo-founder / Product Development / UX lead2006 — 2009New York and San Francisco, USA
- UpocMobile Software Developer2005 — 2006New York, USA
Skills & more
Lean StartupEarly-Stage StartupsMobile Product DevelopmentMachine LearningNeural NetworksComputer VisionObject DetectionFeasibility StudiesNatural Language Processing (NLP)Cloud ApplicationsVoice TechnologyVideo Production
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Video Post-ProductionLive Video StreamingiOS DevelopmentVideo EditingBusiness DevelopmentTechnical ArchitectureCoachingProduction SystemsAIPMAgentic AI DevelopmentAI VoiceAI Video EditingLanguages English · German
- Product Strategy — Crisp AB
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Pär Lindhe?
- Pär Lindhe co-founded Heysan, a mobile cross-protocol messaging platform, which was later acquired. He subsequently developed Candid, a recruitment communication software serving paying customers with high retention.
- Where does Pär Lindhe work?
- Pär Lindhe is Founder/Product Development / UX lead of Heysan.
- What companies did Pär Lindhe found?
- Pär Lindhe founded Heysan.
- Where did Pär Lindhe go to school?
- Pär Lindhe studied at Y Combinator (Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies); Uppsala University (Msc, computer science); Hyper Island (Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia).
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