Findir, the Tashkent-based AI recruitment platform, has raised a $2.1M seed round to accelerate its expansion across the Middle East and North Africa. Semurg Venture Capital led the round, with participation from a tier-1 international syndicate including a leading Gulf-based fund and several strategic angels from the global HR-tech ecosystem.
Founded in 2023 by a team of recruitment veterans and ML engineers, Findir replaces the slow, manual screening loop that defines most regional hiring with an AI agent that reads job descriptions, sources candidates across LinkedIn, GitHub and local job boards, and produces a ranked shortlist with structured interview notes — all in under 24 hours.
The platform is already live with 40+ paying customers across Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the UAE, including several portfolio companies of major regional VCs. Internal data shows a 6× reduction in time-to-shortlist and a 3× improvement in offer acceptance rates compared to traditional agencies.
The new capital will fund three priorities: a Dubai go-to-market team, a multilingual conversational interview agent (Arabic, Russian, Uzbek and English at launch), and deep ATS integrations with Greenhouse, Lever and Workable. The team plans to triple headcount within 12 months.
Findir is the kind of company we built Semurg to back: a regional founding team using frontier AI to attack a globally relevant problem, with a clear path to becoming the default hiring layer for the MENA enterprise stack. We could not be more excited to be on this journey with them.