Qureos, an AI-driven hiring platform founded in the Middle East, secured a $5 million Seed round led by Prosus Ventures and Salica Oryx Fund. Participation included Oraseya Capital, PlusVC, F6 Ventures, BDev Ventures, Sunny Side Venture Partners, and early HubSpot executive Daniel Tyre, alongside follow-on investment from COTU Ventures and Globivest. Founded by Alexander Epure and Usama Nini, the platform treats recruitment as a unified system rather than a series of fragmented manual steps, addressing the bottlenecks typically found in high-volume hiring environments.
Rebuilding Recruitment as an AI-First System
Enterprises utilize the platform to compress hiring timelines from months to as little as six days. The Iris AI assistant automates sourcing across 2,000 global job boards, enriches candidate profiles, and completes screenings in under 15 seconds. AI-led audio or video interviews further streamline the process, eliminating approximately 2,160 hours of annual manual workload for recruiters. Candidates benefit from automated matching and role-specific feedback to ensure alignment with suitable opportunities.
From Months to Days: Speed at Enterprise Scale
More than 1,000 enterprise and public sector organizations, including Qatar Airways and Dubai Economy and Tourism, have adopted the technology. The system supports regional requirements like GCC nationalization policies and integrates with existing HRIS and ATS infrastructure. New capital will fund advanced AI development, go-to-market team expansion, and geographic growth through strategic partnerships.
"Hiring speed is becoming one of the most decisive competitive advantages for modern companies," said Alexander Epure, Co-founder and CEO of Qureos. "The organizations that win are the ones that can identify the right candidates and move decisively. We built Qureos to help employers and candidates meet in the middle, with a system that improves with every hire."