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Co-founder and CRO of Deel, the $17B global payroll unicorn
Credibility
Traction · 97th percentile
- Deel is valued at approximately $17B, making Shuo Wang a unicorn founder.
- Deel has been profitable for over two years, a publicly stated milestone.
- Aeris Cleantec AG raised approximately $4.1M in total funding.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current Co-Founder & CRO of Deel, the global payroll and HR platform.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Deel was co-founded with Alex Bouaziz, confirming a co-founder relationship.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)deel.com ranks #15,908 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator W19 alum — attended the Winter 2019 batch with Deel.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Deel has been profitable for over two years, a publicly stated milestone.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder of Aeris Cleantec AG, a smart home health technology company.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Deel is valued at approximately $17B, making Shuo Wang a unicorn founder.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Aeris Cleantec AG raised approximately $4.1M in total funding.
Investor score
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with investments in Adapt, Linkup, and Nas.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Has made at least 3 known angel investments (Adapt, Linkup, Nas).
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Portfolio company Adapt was acquired for $49.1M.
What you likely need
You're at the rare intersection of unicorn IPO prep, active angel investing, and immigrant founder brand-building — a combination that demands rooms calibrated to each. Festival events that put you across the table from recently public CEOs, DC policy insiders, and YC/GC deal flow networks will compound fastest right now. The highest-leverage gatherings are the ones where your Deel story and global payroll expertise are the credential, not the pitch.
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.
- fundraisingA dinner for unicorn founders who've recently filed or are actively preparing an S-1 — including Deel, Klarna, and Stripe-era peers — to pressure-test IPO narratives, compare IR firm selections, and share the emotional realities of the public-company transition
- introsA YC W19 alumni and General Catalyst portfolio founder roundtable to source pre-seed and seed deal flow in global workforce, HR-tech, and cross-border fintech
- fundraisingA roundtable for prolific angel investors from Deel, Rippling, and Remote founding teams to explore formalizing deal flow into a syndicate or small fund
- positioningA dinner for immigrant founders of breakout B2B companies — including Deel, Calendly, and Brex alumni — building their public-company personal brand through long-form writing, podcasts, and congressional testimony
- tacticalA Washington D.C. policy roundtable with HR-tech and fintech founders who've built formal government relations functions — including Rippling, Gusto, and Papaya Global peers — to map global workforce regulation strategy ahead of Deel's IPO
- introsA happy hour for unicorn co-founders who've recently taken their first formal board seats at portfolio companies, to swap deal sourcing tactics and governance best practices
- wellbeingA peer coaching circle for CEOs of 3,000-plus-employee companies within 18 months of an IPO — including founders from Deel, Canva, and Notion-scale companies — focused on the psychological and organizational transition from founder to public-company executive