Deel — Deel for Startups
Discounted global hiring and contractor payments, normally surfaced through fintech partner catalogs. Relevant the moment your team spans more than one country, which for most AI-era startups is from the first hire.
What you need to qualify
- Early-stage company
- Usually via a fintech or accelerator partner catalog
Before you submit
- Company domain email, not a personal address
- Live public website that describes a product, not a coming-soon page
- Company profile findable on LinkedIn, X or GitHub
- Incorporation documents and funding evidence to hand
- Confirm the company has not claimed credits from this program before, under any entity
Other programs in this category
Incorporating through Atlas unlocks a bundle of partner offers alongside the company formation itself — cloud credits, SaaS discounts and tooling from a rotating partner list. Most valuable at the very start: if you have not incorporated yet, routing the formation through Atlas is one of the cheapest ways to trigger several partner perks at once.
Opening a business account unlocks a bundle of partner credits at once — cloud, AI API and SaaS offers that would each need a separate application otherwise. This is the highest-leverage single action for a pre-seed team: one onboarding, dozens of downstream perks, including AI API credit that has no self-serve path elsewhere.
It works in the same way as Brex: the banking relationship is the key that opens a partner perk catalog. Worth comparing the two catalogs against your actual stack before choosing, since the overlap is partial and each has offers the other does not.