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Deel grew its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) from approximately $800 million to over $1.4 billion in the last year.
Deel has been a profitable company for the last three years while maintaining a high growth rate.
Deel is a fully remote company with 7,000 employees distributed across 120 countries.
Deel's revenue is geographically diversified, with 50% from American companies and 50% from companies in Europe, Latin America, and APAC.
Deel's most recent funding round was led by Ribbit Capital, with significant participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue.
Alex Bouaziz predicts that new graduates who are AI-native will be 10x more productive and will displace older workers who are slower to adopt AI tools.
Alex Bouaziz believes Deel could double its revenue from its current $1.4 billion ARR without a significant increase in headcount due to AI-driven productivity gains.
Deel acquired its competitor Omnipresent as part of a market consolidation strategy.
Deel's platform is used by more than 40,000 customers for global hiring and payroll.
Deel has a specific M&A playbook to fully integrate an acquired company's product and customer base within a 12-month timeframe.
Deel's customer base includes large public companies such as Coinbase, Shopify, Cloudflare, Hermes, and On.
Deel acquired Payspace, a South African company, to gain over 15 years of expertise in building payroll engines for the African market.