Founder of a listed tool
Kirti Shenoy
Co-founder and CEO, named behind the Zeal listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Kirti builds
Zeal E · Payroll infrastructure
Zeal is an embedded payroll API for US staffing platforms, labour marketplaces and workforce software. Partners create employer companies, onboard W-2 employees and 1099 contractors, create pay cheques and contractor payments, preview payroll and pull reports.
Co-founder and CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Pranab Krishnan Co-founder and CTO
Questions
Who is Kirti Shenoy?
Kirti Shenoy co-founded Zeal with Pranab Krishnan in 2019 and is its CEO. The company began as Puzzl, a gig staffing business, and turned to payroll infrastructure after it had to reclassify thousands of contractors as employees. Zeal went through Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch, and its API lets platforms build payroll products.
What does Puzzl Group Inc. make?
Anchor Terminal lists Zeal from Puzzl Group Inc.. Zeal is an embedded payroll API for US staffing platforms, labour marketplaces and workforce software. Partners create employer companies, onboard W-2 employees and 1099 contractors, create pay cheques and contractor payments, preview payroll and pull reports.
How are Kirti's tools graded?
Zeal is graded E, 45.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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