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Juan Barroso

Co-founder and CTO, named behind the Salsa listing on Anchor Terminal.

Juan Barroso

Co-founder and CTO

Juan Barroso is co-founder and CTO of Salsa, an embedded payroll API for software platforms. He previously built a payroll engine covering ten countries, which was sold to Intuit, and then spent six more years engineering payroll systems before starting Salsa.

What Juan builds

  • Salsa D · Payroll infrastructure

    Embedded payroll from Salsa Software Inc. for software platforms. A partner's backend onboards employers and workers, sends pay data, previews and confirms payroll runs and reads pay statements through a REST API, while Salsa files taxes and moves money.

    Co-founder and CTO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Juan Barroso?

Juan Barroso is co-founder and CTO of Salsa, an embedded payroll API for software platforms. He previously built a payroll engine covering ten countries, which was sold to Intuit, and then spent six more years engineering payroll systems before starting Salsa.

What does Salsa Software Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Salsa from Salsa Software Inc.. Embedded payroll from Salsa Software Inc. for software platforms. A partner's backend onboards employers and workers, sends pay data, previews and confirms payroll runs and reads pay statements through a REST API, while Salsa files taxes and moves money.

Who has invested in Salsa Software Inc.?

The sources our research read name Altos Ventures, SemperVirens, Greycroft, Definition Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Cambrian and Forum Ventures.

How are Juan's tools graded?

Salsa is graded D, 46.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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