Shor
ActiveInternational payroll, built for founders
This company has previously operated under “Kesher Link”, “ShorPay”. A rename frequently marks a pivot in positioning or product — useful raw material for variant ideas.
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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.
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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
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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