“Can a leaner Y Combinator startup undercut Deel and Remote on price while offering founder-level support for global payroll?”
Shor Inc. is a 2025-founded, Y Combinator-backed startup positioning itself as a lower-priced, founder-friendly alternative to Deel and Remote for international payroll. The company offers contractor payments in 150+ countries, EOR employment in 27 markets, and managed local-entity payroll in 15 markets, priced roughly half of Deel's headline EOR rate. Rather than build banking, KYC, and multi-country payroll infrastructure in-house, Shor stitches together specialist providers — Cadana for EOR/payroll rails, AiPrise for KYB/KYC, Stripe for billing, WorkOS for auth — behind its own product UI.