Shor

Shor

International payroll, built for founders

San Francisco
4 employees
Seed

About Shor

Shor is international payroll, built for founders. Hire your first international employee or contractor at startup speed. Set up on one call, run payroll the same week.

Pay contractors and employ full-time team members through Shor's EOR across the world. Localized contracts, automatic compliance, and same-day local-currency payouts at a flat FX margin. No setup fees, no lock-ins.

Backed by Polychain Capital, Founders Capital, and Goodwater, among others.

Company details

Team Size4
LocationSan Francisco

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Polychain Capital
FFounders Capital
GGoodwater

Founders

Daivik Goel

Daivik Goel

Building Shor, the fastest, most affordable way for global workforces to be hired and paid In the past, I’ve built global financial infrastructure from scratch in weeks, shipped production APIs overnight, and started Founders Brew, which has brought together 2,000+ founders across SF, Toronto, and NYC. I’ve also worked on product and engineering at Tesla, Cisco Meraki, and several early-stage startups. Computer Engineering Grad, University of Waterloo

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Avi Konduru

Avi Konduru

Currently building Shor (YC S25), leveraging AI agents and stablecoins to create the world’s fastest, most affordable global EOR. Previously co-founder of the world’s first rent-to-own exchange, where we connected aspiring homeowners with sellers via rent-to-own contracts and facilitated over $2M in home sales. Earlier, I worked as an ML Engineer at Kensho Technologies and a Quant at Wells Fargo. Graduate of UT Austin, B.S. in Computer Science.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.