Founder Festival: Alex Bouaziz's Profile

Welcome, Alex Bouaziz

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Founder282

97th percentile

Investor110

96th percentile

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#23 on Leaderboard

Co-founder & CEO of Deel, scaling a $17B global payroll giant

• Professional:YC S19 Serial Founder Unicorn Founder Raised $1B+5,000+ Employees Angel Investor Seed Focus

• Industries:HR Tech Fintech SaaS

Credibility

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Traction · 98th percentile

Deel last valued at ~$17B following its $300M round led by Ribbit, a16z and Coatue.
Current Co-Founder and CEO of Deel.
Deel has been profitable for three consecutive years.
Featured in Forbes Australia's 40 Under 40 Richest Self-Made Billionaires Under 40 with a $2B net worth.
Feature profile in Fortune covering Deel's growth to a $17 billion giant.
Past founder of Lifeslice and Sarona Ventures before Deel.

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Founder score

99%Current Co-Founder and CEO of Deel.
95%Deel last valued at ~$17B following its $300M round led by Ribbit, a16z and Coatue.
95%58,634 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
95%deel.com ranks #15,908 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
95%Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (Finance, 2021).
95%Co-founded Deel with Shuo Wang (multiple co-founders).
90%Featured in Forbes Australia's 40 Under 40 Richest Self-Made Billionaires Under 40 with a $2B net worth.
90%Past founder of Lifeslice and Sarona Ventures before Deel.
88%Feature profile in Fortune covering Deel's growth to a $17 billion giant.
85%Deel went through Y Combinator.
85%Deel has been profitable for three consecutive years.

Investor score

90%16 portfolio investments tracked by CB Insights.
90%Founding Partner at Sarona Ventures, an investment fund.
85%Active GP / fund manager running Sarona Ventures.
85%Publicly identified as an active angel investor backing companies like Cal.com, Realm, and Isembard.
80%Portfolio includes CoinTracker, a unicorn (private, >$1B valuation).
80%Portfolio exit: Otta (acquisition).
75%Roughly 11 years of investing experience since founding Sarona Ventures in 2014.
70%Early Sarona investments in Verbit (now a unicorn) and Cherre.

What you likely need

You're operating at the very top of the global SaaS scale curve — a $17B payroll juggernaut at $1B+ ARR with an IPO on the horizon — so the most valuable Festival events for you are tight peer circles with other billion-dollar founders, IPO-readiness operators, and the funds that lead late-stage rounds. Pair those with high-leverage angel/portfolio touchpoints through Sarona Ventures and senior recruiting conversations to keep filling Deel's enterprise bench.

Would you attend these IRL Festival events?

We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.

tacticalAn off-the-record dinner with other pre-IPO SaaS CEOs ($500M+ ARR) to compare 2026 IPO timing, S-1 narratives, and bankers.
positioningA small roundtable with Ribbit, a16z and Coatue partners on positioning Deel's late-stage growth story for the public markets.
introsA YC alumni founder dinner for billion-dollar-club CEOs to swap notes on global expansion and compliance scaling.
hiringA Deel enterprise-ops recruiting happy hour with senior GTM and operations leaders from Stripe, Rippling, and Workday.
introsAn angel-investor evening with other founder-investors (Cal.com, CoinTracker) to swap deal flow and follow-on opportunities for Sarona's portfolio.
tacticalA closed-door workshop with compliance leads from multinationals operating in 100+ countries to pressure-test Deel's next-gen payroll product roadmap.
wellbeingA founder wellbeing retreat for billion-dollar-company CEOs navigating press scrutiny and rapid scaling.
positioningA Forbes 30 Under 30 / 40 Under 40 alumni dinner to deepen relationships with peer self-made founders ahead of public-market debut.