HR & recruiting

Shor

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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 description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Pricing

We run gross-to-net, statutory filings, and remittance on top of it from $50/month per employee.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-27

For a startup with, say, 2 international employees and 8 contractors, that's $1,590/month in platform fees ($19,080/year) before anyone's salary.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-27

Founders & team

Previously Kesher Link, ShorPay

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Daivik Goel

Founder/CEO

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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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Avi Konduru

Founder

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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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Launched · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-10-27

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