Deel has acquired AI cybersecurity company Clarity as businesses face growing risks from identity fraud, deepfakes and impersonation during recruitment and employment, the company said on August 3.
The acquisition is aimed at extending identity verification and fraud detection beyond hiring into employee onboarding and day-to-day workforce access management.
Clarity specialises in identity verification, deepfake detection and fraud prevention. Its technology is already being used by Deel, according to Deel co-founder and CEO Alex Bouaziz, who said the acquisition would allow the company to integrate the technology more deeply across its platform.
The move comes amid concerns over the use of fake identities to gain access to organisations. Deel cited a case last year in which North Korean hackers allegedly impersonated workers to infiltrate global organisations through hiring systems. It also referenced Gartner projections that one in four candidate profiles globally could be fraudulent by 2028.
Bouaziz said companies often verify identities during recruitment before transferring employees to separate systems for IT access, device provisioning and other workforce management functions. He argued that the fragmented approach could create security gaps as remote work expands and AI-enabled fraud becomes more sophisticated.
Under the planned integration, identity checks will begin during sourcing and continue through onboarding and workforce access management through Deel IT.
The acquisition will also bring Clarity’s team into Deel. Clarity was co-founded by CEO Michael Matias and CTO Ziv Isaiah, whose backgrounds include cybersecurity, AI, fraud detection and enterprise identity systems.
Deel said its existing AI systems have handled more than 250,000 cases a month and automated more than 400 HR operations requests daily. The company said it has also saved more than one million hours across its teams through internal AI systems.
The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The deal comes as employers increasingly contend with the challenge of determining whether job applicants and workers are who they claim to be, particularly across remote and internationally distributed workforces.