{"id":5589,"date":"2017-06-17T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/betting-on-gcc-job-growth-dubai-based-online-recruitment-startup-raises-3-million\/"},"modified":"2017-06-17T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:47:55","slug":"betting-on-gcc-job-growth-dubai-based-online-recruitment-startup-raises-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/betting-on-gcc-job-growth-dubai-based-online-recruitment-startup-raises-3-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Betting On GCC Job Growth, Dubai-based Online Recruitment Startup Raises $3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai-based online recruitment platform Bloovo has raised $3 million in its latest round of funding.<\/p>\n<p>The funding round was led by Noble Partners.<\/a> Other participants included\u00a0ProCapita HR Consulting and Sulaiman Al-Rubaie from Kuwait; the Al Shafar, Al Serkal and Al Ghussain families from the UAE; and Mohamad Moosa Abdulrahman Investment Office from Oman.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest investment, Bloovo\u2014which was founded in 2016\u2014seeks to strengthen its team and grab a larger market share, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The company aims to grow across the MENA over the next 18 months and then move internationally eyeing investors from Asia, Europe, and the US, said Bloovo\u2019s CEO and Founder Ahmad Khamis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bloovo is not the only recruitment platform betting on MENA job growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In April, London-based C5 Capital\u2019s Bahrain-based \u2018cloud fund\u2019 for the Middle East and Africa said it is investing $2.5 million in the GCC digital recruitment platform, OneGCC<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The investment values OneGCC\u2014a cloud-based platform that is aimed at nationalization of GCC jobs\u2014at $10 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Last month, UAE-based Bayzat, which provides HR solutions through an online platform, raised $3 million from unnamed investors.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the HR space, Bayzat helps companies automate HR admin work from data entry to managing employee records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Companies that work with Bayzat include MacKenzie Jones, Deliveroo, Fetchr, MumzWorld, Al AlAlali, Man\u00f3ushe Street, Bayut and Propertyfinder.ae.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai-based online recruitment platform Bloovo has raised $3 million in its latest round of funding. The funding round was led by Noble Partners. Other participants included\u00a0ProCapita HR Consulting and Sulaiman Al-Rubaie from Kuwait; the Al Shafar, Al Serkal and Al Ghussain families from the UAE; and Mohamad Moosa Abdulrahman Investment Office from Oman. With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}