Qureos, an AI-powered hiring platform founded in the Middle East, has raised $5 million in seed funding to accelerate its growth across the MENA region.
The round was led by Prosus Ventures and Salica Oryx Fund, with participation from Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, F6 Ventures, BDev Ventures, Sunny Side Venture Partners, and Daniel Tyre, an early HubSpot executive who helped scale the company from inception through IPO. Existing investors COTU Ventures and Globivest also participated in the round.
Founded by Alexander Epure and Usama Nini, Qureos was built around a core insight: hiring delays are driven less by volume and more by fragmentation. Recruiters rely on disconnected tools across sourcing, screening, and interviewing, while candidates move through opaque processes with limited feedback. Qureos approaches hiring as a unified system—designed to continuously optimise outcomes for both employers and candidates.
As organisations increasingly compete for talent in high-volume and time-sensitive environments, hiring speed has emerged as a critical operational advantage. Enterprises using Qureos have compressed hiring cycles from months to as little as six days, transforming recruitment from a bottleneck into a competitive differentiator.
“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 replaces fragmented recruitment workflows with a single, intelligent system. By unifying sourcing, screening, and interviewing, the platform enables companies to hire faster without compromising quality—an essential advantage in high-growth markets.”
At the core of the platform is Iris, Qureos’ AI assistant, which serves as the interface between employers and candidates throughout the hiring lifecycle. For companies and recruitment agencies, Iris functions as an AI recruiter assistant, automating sourcing, screening, and interviewing while continuously optimising for efficiency and match quality.
For candidates, Iris surfaces relevant roles across the broader job market, clearly communicating fit and alignment. Candidates gain early visibility into suitable opportunities and receive role-specific feedback, enabling more informed engagement from the outset.
On the employer side, Qureos automates the end-to-end recruitment workflow. Job openings are distributed across more than 2,000 job boards globally, alongside social and direct channels. Candidate profiles are enriched using publicly available data and AI-driven prediction models, screened against role requirements in under 15 seconds, and shortlisted candidates are assessed through AI-led audio or video interviews tailored to each role.
“Qureos is solving a deeply operational problem with clear, measurable impact,” said Hasan Haider, Founder and Managing Partner at Plus VC. “By significantly reducing time-to-hire while improving recruiter productivity and candidate experience, the company is reshaping how organisations approach talent acquisition. We’re excited to support Alex, Usama, and the team as they build a category-defining platform.”
For organisations hiring at scale, manual application reviews and early-stage interviews can require up to 15 hours per role, adding up to approximately 2,160 hours of recruiter effort annually. By automating these steps, Qureos effectively eliminates a full year of manual recruiter workload.
Today, Qureos is used by teams within more than 1,000 enterprise and public sector organisations, including Qatar Airways, Dubai Economy and Tourism, BAAN Holding, and Union Properties. The platform is built with regional requirements in mind, supporting localisation and nationalisation policies across GCC markets while integrating seamlessly with existing ATS and HRIS systems—or operating as a standalone solution.
“Hiring speed is becoming one of the most decisive advantages for modern organisations,” said Epure. “The companies that win are those that can identify the right candidates and act decisively. We built Qureos to help employers and candidates meet in the middle through a system that improves with every hire.”
The new funding will be used to advance Qureos’ AI capabilities, expand its go-to-market team, and accelerate regional expansion through enterprise and agency partnerships.
