Qureos, a Dubai-headquartered AI-driven hiring platform founded in the Middle East, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Prosus Ventures and Salica Oryx Fund. The round also saw 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. Existing investors COTU Ventures and Globivest also joined through follow-on investment, signaling continued confidence in the company’s growth trajectory.
Founded by Alexander Epure and Usama Nini, Qureos plans to use the fresh capital to further develop its artificial intelligence capabilities, expand its go-to-market team, and accelerate geographic expansion through enterprise and agency partnerships. The company operates across the Middle East and is positioning itself as a scalable solution for organizations managing high-volume and time-sensitive hiring needs.
In a conversation with Business Recorder, Co-Founder Usama Nini, who is originally from Pakistan, shared that while Qureos is headquartered in Dubai, it has built a meaningful operational presence in Pakistan as part of its global delivery model. Over the past few years, the company has invested in building and scaling its team in Pakistan, tapping into the country’s growing pool of technical and operational talent. According to Nini, this distributed setup enables Qureos to operate efficiently at scale while serving enterprise and public sector clients across MENA and beyond. As the company enters new markets, the Pakistan-based team continues to play a central role in supporting platform performance and rapid growth.
Qureos was built around the insight that hiring delays are not driven solely by volume, but by fragmentation. Recruiters often rely on disconnected tools across sourcing, screening, and interviewing, while candidates move through opaque processes with limited feedback. The company approaches hiring as a unified system rather than a sequence of manual steps, aiming to streamline and optimize the entire workflow through automation and intelligence.
Demand for the platform has grown as enterprises increasingly use Qureos to manage large-scale recruitment cycles. The company states that organizations have been able to compress hiring timelines from several months to as little as six days by using its integrated platform. This reduction in time-to-hire is positioned as a strategic advantage in competitive, fast-moving markets.
Robin Voogd, Head of Middle East Investments at Prosus Ventures, noted that hiring at scale remains one of the most operationally complex challenges for modern organizations. He highlighted that Qureos replaces fragmented recruitment workflows with a single intelligent platform that unifies sourcing, screening, and interviewing, enabling employers to hire faster without compromising quality.
At the core of the platform is Iris, Qureos’ AI assistant that serves as the interface between employers and candidates throughout the recruitment process. For companies and recruitment agencies, Iris acts as an AI recruiter assistant, automating sourcing, screening, and interviewing while continuously optimizing for both speed and quality. On the candidate side, Iris matches individuals with relevant roles across the broader job market and provides role-specific feedback to improve alignment and engagement.
Hasan Haider, Founder and Managing Partner at PlusVC, described Qureos as addressing a deeply operational challenge with measurable impact. By reducing time-to-hire while improving recruiter productivity and candidate experience, the company is reshaping how organizations approach talent acquisition.
Alexander Epure, Co-Founder and CEO of Qureos, emphasized that hiring speed is increasingly becoming a decisive competitive factor. He stated that organizations that can identify and move quickly on the right candidates are better positioned to succeed, adding that Qureos was built to create a system that improves with every hire.
With fresh funding and expanding market reach, Qureos is aiming to strengthen its presence across MENA while continuing to leverage its operational base in Pakistan as part of its global growth strategy.
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