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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nVivek Patel is a co-founder of Check, an API-first embedded payroll platform that lets software companies run payroll inside their own products. Check's launch post says its founders previously spent more than seven years building their first company, Oyster, together.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-patel-827b958b/\n\n## What Vivek builds\n\n- [Check](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/check-payroll.md), graded B, 67.6/100, in Payroll infrastructure. Check is an embedded payroll API from Check Technologies in New York. Software platforms build US payroll on it for their own customers, with tax calculation, payment and filing handled by Check. Access is by partner agreement. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Andrew Brown](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrew-brown/), Co-founder and CEO\n- [Eric Stromberg](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-stromberg/), Co-founder, Check Technologies, Inc.\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Stripe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/stripe/)\n- [Bedrock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bedrock/)\n- [Thrive Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/thrive-capital/)\n- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Vivek Patel?\n\nVivek Patel is a co-founder of Check, an API-first embedded payroll platform that lets software companies run payroll inside their own products. Check's launch post says its founders previously spent more than seven years building their first company, Oyster, together.\n\n### What does Check Technologies, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Check from Check Technologies, Inc.. Check is an embedded payroll API from Check Technologies in New York. Software platforms build US payroll on it for their own customers, with tax calculation, payment and filing handled by Check. Access is by partner agreement.\n\n### Who has invested in Check Technologies, Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Stripe, Bedrock, Thrive Capital and Index Ventures.\n\n### How are Vivek's tools graded?\n\nCheck is graded B, 67.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.checkhq.com/resources/blog/series-c-announcement\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewbrown11\n- https://x.com/almostabc\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-patel-827b958b/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/check-technologies/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-patel-827b958b/\n- https://www.terrain.com/team/eric-stromberg\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/estromberg/details/experience/\n- https://x.com/check_hq\n- https://www.checkhq.com/company/careers\n- https://www.checkhq.com/company/complaints\n- https://help.checkhq.com/\n- https://docs.checkhq.com/docs/overview\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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