Founder Profile
Alex Bouaziz
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Alex Bouaziz?
Alex Bouaziz is a founder of Deel, Inc., which was founded in 2019 with Shuo Wang.
- Company founded
- Deel, Inc.
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Shuo Wang
Background
French-born entrepreneur who met co-founder Shuo Wang at MIT and worked on earlier startups before Deel.
Founding Story
Alex Bouaziz is Deel's co-founder and CEO. He started Deel in 2019 with Shuo Wang after experiencing first-hand how hard it was to hire and pay people across borders, took it through Y Combinator, and has led it from contractor payments to a full global HR and payroll platform with more than $1.5 billion in ARR. He has driven an acquisitive strategy of about 15 deals and is a named defendant, alongside Deel, in Rippling's 2025 corporate-espionage lawsuit, which he and the company dispute. Alex Bouaziz was born in 1993.
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