Qureos, a UAE-based edtech and remote work marketplace that is changing how people upskill and get jobs across the globe, plans to grow the uptake of its platform by 10 times this year in its race to create 100 million jobs over the next few years. The startup has today announced closing a $3 million pre-seed funding to accelerate this growth.
Alexander Epure, Mehrad Yaghmai, and Usama Nini created Qureos in August of last year in order to make mentorship more available to people who are just starting out in their careers or looking to change employment.
The company has grown into a platform that allows industry experts (mentors) to monetise their skills through cohort-based synchronised learning.
Qureos also connects trainees with projects in their subjects of study through its platform.
“The experience that we have at Qureos is about learning from others and from industry experts, and through project-based learning or case study solutions,” said Qureos CEO Epure, who together with Nini are ex-Swvl employees.
Qureos learning, according to Epure, is a departure from self-paced massive open online courses (MOOCs), which he claims are difficult to scale due to their frequent updating requirements.
Trainees at Qureos are given practical assignments to do in groups on behalf of clients.
Qureos has over 25,000 students, 200 mentors from big-tech organisations like Google, Cisco, and Amazon, and 300 business partners who use its platform to fulfil tasks to date.
Companies pay membership fees based on the frequency and types of job posts, while trainees pay a fee.
The startup’s customer base hails from 133 nations, with roughly 32 percent hailing from Africa, primarily from South Africa and North Africa.
Epure claims to be generating new learning and employment options for the millions of youth in the generation Z and millennial demographics who are unemployed or underemployed due to a lack of marketable skills that are frequently not taught in traditional curriculums. Dubai Future Accelerators have picked the business to address the skills gap between the unemployed and those entering the labour market.
