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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO.\n\nKirti 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.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirti-shenoy-9501a8145\n\n## What Kirti builds\n\n- [Zeal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeal.md), graded E, 45.7/100, in 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 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Pranab Krishnan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pranab-krishnan/), Co-founder and CTO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Spark Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/spark-capital/)\n- [Commerce Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/commerce-ventures/)\n- [Jason Gardner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jason-gardner/)\n- [Omri Dahan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/omri-dahan/)\n- [Vlad Tenev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/vlad-tenev/)\n- [Mitch Dauerman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mitch-dauerman/)\n- [Bob Manne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bob-manne/)\n- [Matt Straz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/matt-straz/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Kirti Shenoy?\n\nKirti 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.\n\n### What does Puzzl Group Inc. make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### Who has invested in Puzzl Group Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Spark Capital, Commerce Ventures, Jason Gardner, Omri Dahan, Vlad Tenev, Mitch Dauerman, Bob Manne and Matt Straz.\n\n### How are Kirti's tools graded?\n\nZeal is graded E, 45.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.zeal.com/about\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirti-shenoy-9501a8145\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranab-krishnan\n- https://www.zeal.com/\n- https://www.zeal.com\n- https://support.zeal.com\n- https://support.zeal.com/articles/3287642555-get-support\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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