In 2020, Alexander Epure watched companies spend months on a problem that should take days. A recruiter posting a role, manually sorting CVs, scheduling calls, dropping candidates, then starting over. The feedback loops were broken. The tools were fragmented. Nobody had rebuilt the workflow from the ground up.
Epure and co-founder Usama Nini started Qureos with a specific belief: that AI could run the mechanical parts of hiring so well that human judgment could be reserved for the moments that actually matter.
The platform's AI assistant, Iris, screens candidates in under 15 seconds per profile. It sources, matches, and conducts structured assessments without a recruiter having to touch the keyboard. The result is hiring timelines compressed from months to as little as six days. Per organization, Qureos eliminates roughly 2,160 hours of recruiter time per year.
The early signal was strong enough to raise a $3 million pre-seed round in 2022, led by COTU Ventures and Colle Capital. The businesses that tried Qureos kept expanding their use of it. More roles, more teams, more markets. Qatar Airways, Dubai Economy and Tourism, BAAN Holdings, Union Properties. By 2026, over 1,000 enterprise and public sector organizations had adopted the platform.
In February 2026, Prosus Ventures and Salica Oryx Fund led a $5 million seed round into Qureos, with backing from Oraseya Capital, Plus VC, F6 Ventures, BDev Ventures, Sunny Side Venture Partners, and Daniel Tyre, an early HubSpot executive who knows something about building software that enterprises actually use. The capital goes toward expanding AI capabilities, scaling the go-to-market team, and deepening the platform's footprint across MENA and beyond.
There is a version of this story that sounds like every other AI recruiting company. Epure's version is different because of the specificity of the numbers. Six days. Fifteen seconds. 2,160 hours. He did not build a tool that makes hiring feel faster. He built one that proves it.
In a region where talent is the limiting factor for nearly every growing business, the founder who controls the hiring stack controls something important.