Deel
425 1st Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Overview
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform that offers hiring, human resources, and payroll services to both workers and contractors. Deel's platform integrates contracts, payments, and taxes into a single interface, allowing clients to access contractual and compliance processes while providing a better experience for foreign contractors. The company aims to streamline every aspect of hiring and managing a global team, making it easier to pay and onboard employees worldwide.
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 5
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Bookkeeping and Payroll
- Compliance
- Human Resources
- Recruiting
Investment portfolio
- Zeely
Led · Safe · May 2026
Zeely operates a mobile AI application and marketing intelligence platform that automates creation of advertising materials, marketing creatives, and campaign promotion for small and medium businesses. The company emphasizes ease of use so entrepreneurs can launch ad campaigns without technical expertise. Zeely claims to have over 1 million users and employs more than 170 people, and reports growth of over six times year over year. Its key target market is the United States. The founders are Dmitriy Samoylyuk, Yaroslav Samoylyuk, and Alina Bondarenko. Zeely plans to use the newly raised funds to scale its platform, enhance AI features, and expand internationally.
- Prelude
Participated · Series A · May 2026
Founded in 2023, Prelude began by helping companies with user SMS verification and has evolved into a full-stack digital onboarding platform. It combines telecom data, network signals and behavioural patterns into a single trust profile to enable continuous trust decisions across the user lifecycle. Prelude says its bundled stack — including a verification provider, fraud vendor, identity layer and device SDK — yields customers on average 40% savings on verification costs and improved conversion rates. The company has launched Auth API for continuous trust checks and Intel API for real-time intelligence such as SIM status and number reputation. Prelude employs about 50 people and has raised $27M to date following the $20M Series A. Its stated plans include expanding telecom partnerships globally and investing in machine-learning systems while scaling engineering, infrastructure and go-to-market teams.
- Munice
Led · Safe · May 2026
Munice develops Nightly, a sleep app that collects and analyzes biometric sleep data to produce personalized audio waves intended to guide users into deeper sleep states. The system combines signal processing and AI-driven personalization to detect individual sleep patterns and trigger tailored audio interventions in near real time. The company emphasizes a closed-loop approach that moves beyond passive tracking toward adaptive sleep coaching. Munice recently won the Asia-Pacific round of Deel's 'The Pitch', receiving $50,000 in seed funding and qualifying for the global finals in Paris where finalists may compete for additional investment. The startup faces typical scaling priorities cited in the competition context, including model stability, data pipeline robustness and data protection/compliance considerations. Success at the Paris final is expected to accelerate pilots, further funding and efforts to validate efficacy across larger user cohorts.
- Pack
Led · Equity · Apr 2026
Founded in 2022 by Pietro Maria Picogna and Giacomo Gentili, Pack provides an AI-powered platform for skills mapping, digital evaluations, and tailored development pathways that can include coaching, mentoring, and targeted training. Its solution offers continuous tracking of development plans and has been adopted by large corporate clients including Engie, Veolia, Leroy Merlin, Lafarge and Papernest. Pack reports a team of 45 employees and a 94% customer satisfaction rate. The company announced a €5.8 million Series A in 2025 to fund international expansion and further build out its technology, and has opened a new headquarters in Paris while actively recruiting. Pack also benefits from the guidance of experienced HR advisors with backgrounds at large companies such as Axa and Danone.
- Pluvo
Participated · Seed · Feb 2026
Pluvo offers a cloud-based platform that applies agentic AI orchestration to analyze financial models, test forecast assumptions, and generate scenario-driven recommendations in minutes. Positioned above traditional data and reporting layers, it supports continuous variance analysis, multi-scenario planning, AI-powered forecasting, and context-aware performance explanations. The system integrates with ERP, CRM, HRIS, and billing tools while retaining auditability and enterprise-grade data integrity, capturing the reasoning behind each analysis to build institutional memory over time. Co-headquartered in Ottawa and San Francisco, Pluvo currently serves growth-stage and mid-market companies, and several of its CFO customers have also become investors. The company graduated from the Alchemist Accelerator and was later accepted into Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z speedrun program, selected from more than 19,000 applicants. Proceeds from its seed financing will fund expansion of the agentic analysis engine, scaling of product and engineering teams, deeper system integrations, and broader go-to-market initiatives.