Founder of a listed tool
Pranab Krishnan
Co-founder and CTO, named behind the Zeal listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Pranab 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 CTO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Kirti Shenoy Co-founder and CEO
Questions
Who is Pranab Krishnan?
Pranab Krishnan co-founded Zeal with Kirti Shenoy in 2019 and is its CTO. Zeal grew out of Puzzl, a gig staffing company, and makes an API that lets other platforms build and embed payroll. It went through Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch.
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 Pranab'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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