Deel Company Profile

Deel is a Delaware-incorporated payroll and HR company founded in 2019 by MIT graduates Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang along with Ofer Simon, after the founders struggled to hire international staff for earlier ventures. The company now owns around 250 legal entities and runs in-house payroll teams in more than 130 countries, offering employer-of-record, contractor, immigration, HRIS and performance-management services under products such as Deel Payroll, Deel HR and Deel Mobility. More than 35,000 customers use Deel, including Shopify, Nike and Klarna, and the company operates with a fully remote, globally distributed workforce.

In October 2025, Deel raised a $300 million Series E round co-led by Ribbit Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $17.3 billion.

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No. Deel is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.

The last valuation is $17.3B (post-money, Oct 2025).