Deel

Deel is a US-based payroll and HR platform that helps companies hire, pay, and manage employees across borders. As remote work has become common, Deel solves the growing challenge of managing employees across countries. Its Employer of Record service legally employs workers for companies in places where they don’t have a local office. This means businesses don’t have to set up foreign subsidiaries just to hire one person abroad. Besides that, Deel combines payroll, benefits, compliance, performance management, and IT asset tracking into one platform. It operates in over 150 countries and handles about $22 billion in payroll each year.

After graduating from Y Combinator in 2019, Deel quickly raised several funding rounds showing strong market interest. Andreessen Horowitz led a $14 million Series A in May 2020, followed by a $48 million Series B from Spark Capital a few months later. By April 2021, Deel raised $156 million in Series C and became a unicorn. Coatue Management and DST Global co-led a $425 million Series D in October 2021. The company hit a $12 billion valuation by 2022 and kept growing fast. By early 2025, its annual revenue run rate was $800 million, growing 70% year over year, and it passed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in the first quarter while staying profitable for three years straight.

Because Deel has not yet gone public, its shares are unavailable on traditional stock exchanges. Investors who want exposure to the company before an IPO need to go through a private secondary marketplace, and that is exactly what Acquire.Fi provides.

Acquire.Fi connects buyers directly with Deel employees and early backers who are looking to liquidate their private holdings. If you want to buy Deel stock pre-IPO, you can browse active sell-side offers already listed on the marketplace, or submit your own Buy listing specifying the ticket size and valuation you are targeting. Minority shareholders looking to sell Deel stock pre-IPO have the same flexibility on the other side: you can review offers from qualified buyers or create a Sell listing on your own terms, with full discretion throughout the process.

What sets Acquire.Fi apart from informal alternatives is the structure it brings to an otherwise opaque market. Private share transactions have traditionally been arranged through Telegram groups, Discord servers, or personal networks, none of which offer any meaningful verification of who you are dealing with or what you are agreeing to. On Acquire.Fi, counterparties go through a vetting process before they can participate, offers are transparently defined, and the team stays involved from the initial introduction all the way through to closing. That level of support matters in a transaction type where the legal and financial details can get complicated quickly.