Founder of a listed tool

Edward Kim

Co-founder and Head of Engineering, named behind the Gusto listing on Anchor Terminal.

Edward Kim

Co-founder and Head of Engineering

Edward Kim co-founded Gusto, which began as ZenPayroll in Y Combinator's Winter 2012 batch, and leads its engineering team. Kim was earlier a founder of Picwing, another Y Combinator company, and worked at Sun Microsystems and Volkswagen's Electronics Research Lab.

What Edward builds

  • Gusto B · Payroll infrastructure

    Gusto Embedded Payroll is a REST API for running US payroll inside another product, covering company and worker onboarding, payroll calculation and submission, tax filing and contractor payments. Production access needs a partnership with Gusto. A demo environment is self-serve.

    Co-founder and Head of Engineering, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Edward Kim?

Edward Kim co-founded Gusto, which began as ZenPayroll in Y Combinator's Winter 2012 batch, and leads its engineering team. Kim was earlier a founder of Picwing, another Y Combinator company, and worked at Sun Microsystems and Volkswagen's Electronics Research Lab.

What does Gusto, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Gusto from Gusto, Inc.. Gusto Embedded Payroll is a REST API for running US payroll inside another product, covering company and worker onboarding, payroll calculation and submission, tax filing and contractor payments. Production access needs a partnership with Gusto. A demo environment is self-serve.

Who has invested in Gusto, Inc.?

The sources our research read name Y Combinator, GV, Salesforce.com, DCVC, Sherpalo Ventures, Pejman Nozad, Aaron Levie, David Sacks, Drew Houston, Jawed Karim, Jeremy Stoppelman, Kris Duggan, Larry Augustin, Tien Tzuo, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, CapitalG, Ribbit Capital, Emergence Capital, 137 Ventures, T. Rowe Price, MSD Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Fidelity Investments and Generation Investment Management.

How are Edward's tools graded?

Gusto is graded B, 63.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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