• UAE-bassed HRtech Qureos has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Prosus Ventures and Salica Oryx Fund.
• The round also saw participation from Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, F6 Ventures, BDev Ventures, Sunny Side Venture Partners, and Daniel Tyre, with follow-on investments from COTU Ventures and Globivest.
• Founded in 2020 by Alexander Epure and Usama Nini, Qureos is an AI-driven hiring platform that helps enterprises and recruitment teams run faster, more efficient hiring at scale.
• The new funding will be used to further develop Qureos’ AI capabilities, expand its go-to-market team, and accelerate geographic expansion through enterprise and agency partnerships.
• In 2022, Qureos closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by COTU Ventures and Colle Capital and others.

Press release:

Qureos, an AI driven hiring platform founded in the Middle East, has closed a $5 million seed round led by Prosus Ventures and Salica Oryx Fund, with participation from Oraseya Capital, PlusVC, F6 Ventures, BDev Ventures, Sunny Side Venture Partners and Daniel Tyre, an early HubSpot executive who helped scale the company from inception to its IPO, and follow-on investment from COTU Ventures and Globivest.

Founded by Alexander Epure and Usama Nini, Qureos was built around a simple insight. Hiring is not slow because of volume alone. It is slow because it is fragmented. Recruiters juggle disconnected tools across sourcing, screening, and interviewing, while candidates move through the process with little clarity or feedback. Qureos treats hiring as a single system rather than a sequence of manual steps, designed to continuously improve outcomes for both sides.

Hiring has become one of the biggest bottlenecks for growing organisations, particularly in high-volume environments where speed often determines who secures the best talent. Demand for Qureos has surged as enterprises increasingly use the platform to run high-volume and time-sensitive hiring, compressing hiring timelines from months to as little as six days and redefining recruitment as a competitive lever rather than a constraint for businesses.

“Hiring at scale is one of the most operationally complex challenges facing modern organisations,” said Robin Voogd, Head of Middle East Investments at Prosus Ventures. “Qureos has built a practical, end-to-end system that replaces fragmented recruitment workflows with a single, intelligent platform. By unifying sourcing, screening, and interviewing, the company enables employers to hire faster without sacrificing quality, a critical advantage in high-growth, time-sensitive markets.”

At the centre of that system is Iris, Qureos’ AI assistant that acts as the interface between companies and candidates throughout the hiring process. For employers and recruitment agencies, Iris functions as an AI recruiter assistant, automating sourcing, screening, and interviewing while continuously optimising for speed and quality. 

On the candidate side, Iris matches individuals to relevant roles across the broader job market, clearly signaling where they are the right fit and why. Candidates gain early visibility into aligned opportunities and receive role-specific feedback that helps them engage with the right opportunities from the outset.

On the employer side, Qureos automates the full recruitment workflow. Roles are distributed across more than 2,000 job boards globally, as well as social and direct channels, using a multi-channel approach that increases visibility while lowering acquisition costs. Candidate profiles are enriched using publicly available information and AI-based prediction models, then screened against role requirements in under 15 seconds. Shortlisted candidates are assessed through AI-led interviews, delivered via audio or video, and tailored to each role.

Hasan Haider, Founder and Managing Partner at Plus VC, said: “Qureos is solving a deeply operational problem with real, measurable impact. By dramatically reducing time-to-hire while improving recruiter productivity and candidate experience, the company is redefining how modern organisations approach talent acquisition. We are excited to support Alex Epure, Usama Nini and the team as they continue to establish Qureos as a category leader in this space. This is exactly the kind of infrastructure-level innovation we look to back.”

For organisations hiring at scale, the manual effort required for application review and initial interviews often reaches 15 hours per role, translating into roughly 2,160 hours of work per year. By automating these steps, Qureos eliminates a full year of recruiter workload that would otherwise slow hiring and limit capacity.

Today, Qureos has been adopted by teams within more than 1,000 enterprise and public sector organisations, including Qatar Airways, Dubai Economy and Tourism and BAAN Holdings, Union Properties. The platform is built with regional requirements in mind, including localisation and nationalisation policies across GCC markets, while remaining flexible enough to integrate with existing ATS and HRIS systems or operate as a standalone solution.

Hiring speed is becoming one of the most decisive competitive advantages for modern companies, said Alexander Epure, Co-Founder and CEO of Qureos. The organisations 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.

The new funding will be used to further develop Qureos’ AI capabilities, expand its go-to-market team, and accelerate geographic expansion through enterprise and agency partnerships.