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§ Private Profile · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Recruitment platform and talent ecosystem connecting companies with tech talent, graduates, and professionals in Southeast Asia.
Founded in 2013 by Oswald Yeo, Ying Cong Seah, and Qin En, Glints is a Singapore-based recruitment platform connecting employers with tech talent, graduates, and mid-level professionals across Southeast Asia. Today, the company operates a comprehensive talent ecosystem offering job search capabilities, skills education, and human resources consulting services across markets including Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Operating at significant scale, the platform maintains an active database of over 3,500,000 professionals, features 35,000 active job listings, and serves approximately 50,000 organizations. Driven by regional cross-border hiring demand, the firm generated S$45,400,000 in revenue during the 2022 fiscal year and has raised over US$80,000,000 in total funding to date. Glints has successfully secured financial backing from notable institutional investors such as Golden Equator Capital, Gobi Partners, and Persol Holdings to support its continued regional expansion.
Glints has raised $81.8M across 5 funding rounds.
Glints has raised $81.8M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Glints has raised $81.8M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Glints's investors include Ramon Zeng, Xiaoyin Zhang, PERSOL Holdings, Binny Bansal, Fresco Capital, MindWorks Ventures, Wavemaker Partners, Gobi Partners, Golden Equator Capital, Good Startup, East Ventures, Darius Mahtani Cheung.
Glints has raised $81.8M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $50.0M Series D in August 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2022 | $50M Series D | Ramon Zeng, Xiaoyin Zhang, Persol Holdings | Binny Bansal | Announced |
| Apr 5, 2021 | $22.5M Series C | Persol Holdings | Binny Bansal, Xiaoyin Zhang, Fresco Capital, MindWorks Ventures, Wavemaker Partners | Announced |
| Jul 15, 2019 | $6.8M Series B | — | — | Announced |
| Sep 1, 2016 | $2M Series A | Gobi Partners, Golden Equator Capital | Good Startup | Announced |
| Feb 1, 2015 | $480K Seed | East Ventures | Good Startup, Darius Mahtani Cheung, John TAN, 500 Startups, 8 Capita, Infocomm Investments, PIX Vine Capital, SPH Media Fund | Announced |
Glints is a leading talent ecosystem and career development platform in Southeast Asia, connecting job seekers—particularly young professionals—with employers through job matching, career advice, upskilling resources, and recruitment tools.[1][2][3][5] It serves over 5 million professionals and 50,000 organizations across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, and Taiwan, solving talent shortages by enabling cross-border hiring and career growth for 120 million regional professionals.[1][5][8] Glints has shown strong growth momentum, raising $72.5 million total funding including a $50 million Series D in 2022, achieving top rankings like Nikkei-FT-Statista's High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific, and processing thousands of daily job applications.[1][5][7]
Glints was founded in August 2013 by Oswald Yeo, Looi Qin En, and Seah Ying Cong, high school friends from Hwa Chong Institution in Singapore who deferred their university studies at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Wharton to pursue the venture.[2][6] The idea emerged from helping friends find internships via Google Sheets, starting with 38 members and growing to over 7,000 by 2015; it officially launched that year as an internship matching service.[5][6] Early traction included a $475,000 seed round from Singapore tech investors, expansion to Indonesia, and a $2.7 million Series A led by Golden Equator Capital and Gobi Partners, evolving into a full career platform.[5]
Glints rides the SEA digital talent boom, fueled by a young population, rising gig economy, and post-pandemic remote work shifts, timing perfectly with 120 million professionals needing career tools amid talent wars.[1][2][5] Market forces like rapid urbanization, tech adoption in Indonesia/Vietnam, and investor interest (e.g., DCM Ventures) favor its expansion, positioning it as the #1 regional platform influencing human capital by enabling global opportunities for emerging markets.[1][5][7] It shapes the ecosystem by democratizing access to skills and jobs, boosting employer competitiveness.
Glints is poised to dominate SEA talent as AI-driven matching and upskilling trends accelerate, potentially hitting its vision of 120 million careers and 1 million organizations amid hybrid work and economic recovery.[5][8] Rising AI integration and China/Taiwan expansion could amplify influence, evolving it from recruiter to lifelong career partner—watch for deeper enterprise tools and IPO signals tying back to its mission of unlocking human potential.[2][5]