Qureos, an AI-powered hiring platform founded in the Middle East, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by Prosus Ventures and Salica Oryx Fund, with support from investors including Oraseya Capital, PlusVC, F6 Ventures, BDev Ventures, Sunny Side Venture Partners, and Daniel Tyre, an early HubSpot executive. Existing investors COTU Ventures and Globivest also joined the round.
Qureos was founded by Alexander Epure and Usama Nini. The founders believed hiring is slow not just because of too many applications, but because the process is broken into too many disconnected steps. Recruiters use different tools for sourcing, screening, and interviews, while candidates often get little feedback or clarity.
Qureos solves this by treating hiring as one complete system instead of many manual steps. Its platform connects everything in one place and uses AI to improve the experience for both recruiters and candidates over time.
As hiring becomes a major challenge for fast-growing companies, especially those doing high-volume recruitment, demand for Qureos has grown quickly. Companies using the platform have cut hiring timelines from months to as little as six days, turning recruitment into a competitive advantage instead of a business bottleneck.
“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.”
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.”
Today, Qureos is used by teams in over 1,000 enterprise and public sector organisations, including Qatar Airways, Dubai Economy and Tourism, BAAN Holdings, and Union Properties.
The platform is designed to meet regional needs, such as localisation and nationalisation policies across GCC countries. At the same time, it is flexible and can either connect easily with existing ATS and HR systems or work independently as a complete hiring solution.
Read More- Indian food brand The Whole Truth raises $51 million round
