Kirti Shenoy

Kirti Shenoy is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zeal, an API-first payroll infrastructure company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. After completing her education at the University of California, Berkeley, she established the enterprise, initially operating under the name Puzzl, and participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2019 accelerator batch. In her role as chief executive, she directs the strategic development of a platform that allows business-to-business software providers to build and embed custom payroll products directly into their existing systems. In September 2021, Shenoy successfully guided Zeal through a $13 million Series A funding round led by Spark Capital to further scale the company's core developer tools and engineering teams. Her current professional focus centers on advancing embedded financial technology and modernizing human resources infrastructure through specialized application programming interfaces for enterprise clients.