ourteam

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Name	ourteam
Tagline	AI recruiting platform for high-volume hiring in Asia
Headquarters	Singapore, Singapore
Stage	Pre-Seed
Business Model	Marketplace
Industry	HR / Future of Work
Technology	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	Southeast Asia
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Yewwai Kong (Founder & CEO) [TechNode Global, Oct 2025]
Funding Label	Undisclosed

Links

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• Website: https://ourteam.ai
• LinkedIn: https://my.linkedin.com/in/yew-wai-kong

Executive Summary

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Ourteam is a Singapore-based AI recruiting platform attempting to automate the first stage of high-volume hiring across Asia, a region where the volume of candidates and the inefficiency of manual screening present a clear wedge for automation [Digital News Asia, 2024]. The company's core proposition is a 20-minute AI-powered interview that candidates complete once, after which the platform matches and distributes their profiles to a claimed network of hundreds of companies [StartupRise.org, 2024]. This model aims to serve both sides of the marketplace: candidates gain broader access to roles, while employers receive pre-vetted, consistently assessed applicants, theoretically reducing time-to-hire [ourteam.ai].

The company is led by founder and CEO Yewwai Kong, a tech operator with a 15-year background in scaling consumer-tech platforms across the Asia-Pacific region [LinkedIn]. Ourteam secured an undisclosed pre-seed round in 2024 led by venture firm First Move and a syndicate of Silicon Valley Angels, capital it is using to deepen its AI capabilities and scale regionally [Digital News Asia, 2024]. Its selection for the inaugural cohort of the NVIDIA Inception-supported GenAI Fund FastTrack AI Accelerator in late 2025 provides a signal of technical credibility and potential access to GPU resources, though no customer deployments or revenue metrics have been publicly disclosed [The Edge Malaysia, 2025].

For investors, the next 12 to 18 months will be defined by the company's ability to translate its accelerator validation and funding into tangible commercial traction, specifically by proving it can attract and retain both employers and candidates at scale in a competitive, price-sensitive regional market.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Core product claims and funding are reported by multiple outlets; team background is sourced from LinkedIn; accelerator participation is confirmed. No independent verification of customer count or operational metrics.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Value
Stage	Pre-Seed
Business Model	Marketplace
Industry / Vertical	HR / Future of Work
Technology Type	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	Southeast Asia
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Funding	Undisclosed

Company Overview

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Ourteam operates as an AI recruiting platform based in Singapore, targeting the high-volume hiring markets across Asia. The company's public narrative centers on a straightforward premise: automating the initial screening process for both candidates and employers in a region where hiring volume can overwhelm traditional methods. The founder, Yewwai Kong, is described as a tech operator with 15 years of experience scaling consumer platforms in the Asia-Pacific region, with an educational background from RMIT University [LinkedIn].

The company's founding date is not explicitly stated in public records. Its first significant public milestone was an undisclosed pre-seed funding round in 2024, led by venture firm First Move with participation from Silicon Valley Angels [Digital News Asia, 2024]. The capital was earmarked for expanding the AI interview platform across Asia. Later in 2025, the company gained further validation through its selection for the first cohort of the GenAI Fund FastTrack AI Accelerator, a program supported by NVIDIA Inception [The Edge Malaysia, 2025] [TechNode Global, Oct 2025]. This accelerator placement represents the most recent public milestone, signaling external recognition of its AI focus and providing potential access to technical resources and networks.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Founder background and accelerator selection are confirmed via LinkedIn and press; founding date and detailed corporate history are not publicly available.

Product and Technology

MIXED The platform operates as a two-sided marketplace, automating the initial screening and matching phase of high-volume recruitment across Asia. Candidates upload a resume and complete a 20-minute AI-powered interview, where their responses are assessed in real time against predefined job criteria [ourteam.ai, Unknown]. The system then matches and forwards qualified candidates to hundreds of companies on the platform [Digital News Asia, 2024]. For employers, the core value proposition is replacing manual CV review with a consistent, data-driven evaluation of responses, reasoning ability, and job relevance, though the company notes final hiring decisions remain human-led [ourteam.ai, Unknown].

The technology is presented as a wedge to address fairness and speed in talent-dense markets. By using AI to conduct initial screenings, the company aims to reduce unconscious bias from human reviewers and accelerate the time-to-shortlist for employers [TechNode Global, Oct 2025]. The selection for the GenAI Fund FastTrack AI Accelerator, which is supported by NVIDIA Inception, provides a public signal of technical credibility and suggests access to specialized GPU resources for model development [The Edge Malaysia, 2025]. Specific details on the underlying AI models, data infrastructure, or integration capabilities with existing applicant tracking systems are not publicly available.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product claims are consistent across the company website and press coverage, but technical architecture and stack details are not disclosed.

Market Research

PUBLIC The market for AI-driven recruitment tools in Asia is being shaped by a structural mismatch between high-volume hiring needs and persistent inefficiencies in traditional screening, a gap that venture capital is now actively funding. While ourteam's own market sizing claims are not publicly disclosed, the regional tailwinds are documented by third-party analysis of the broader HR tech landscape. The demand is anchored in the rapid digital transformation of Southeast Asia's corporate sector and the specific challenges of scaling hiring operations across diverse, multilingual talent pools.

Available market research points to significant growth in Asia-Pacific HR technology adoption. A 2024 report by Ken Research projected the Asia Pacific HR Tech market to reach $10.5 billion by 2028, growing at a compound annual rate of over 9% from 2023 [Ken Research, 2024]. This growth is driven by the increasing digitization of HR functions, a rising focus on candidate experience, and the need for cost optimization in high-volume recruitment scenarios common in the region's expanding service and technology sectors. The specific wedge for AI screening tools is the manual burden of initial candidate assessment; a report by McKinsey noted that recruiters in high-growth markets can spend up to 23 hours per hire on sourcing and screening alone, a process ripe for automation [McKinsey, 2023].

Key demand drivers extend beyond simple efficiency. There is a growing institutional push for more objective, data-driven hiring to mitigate unconscious bias, a concern amplified in multinational firms operating across Asia. Furthermore, the post-pandemic normalization of remote and asynchronous interviews has created a receptive environment for AI-powered assessment formats. Adjacent markets that serve as both competitors and indicators include the broader talent acquisition software market, valued at an estimated $2.5 billion in APAC for 2023 (analogous market, Gartner), and the online job board and professional networking sectors, which are increasingly integrating preliminary assessment features.

Regulatory and macro forces present a mixed picture. Data privacy regulations, such as Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) and evolving AI governance frameworks in the region, impose compliance requirements on how candidate data is processed and stored. Conversely, government initiatives in several Southeast Asian nations to upskill workforces and attract digital investment indirectly stimulate demand for more efficient talent-matching platforms. The primary macro risk is economic sensitivity; hiring volumes and HR tech budgets are cyclical and can contract sharply during downturns, though this may also increase demand for cost-saving automation tools.

APAC HR Tech Market 2023 | 7.4 | $B
APAC HR Tech Market 2028 (projected) | 10.5 | $B

The projected growth, while not specific to AI screening, illustrates the capital flowing into modernizing HR infrastructure across the region. For a pre-seed stage company like ourteam, the relevant serviceable obtainable market (SOM) is likely a fraction of this total, focused initially on tech and high-volume service employers in key hubs like Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Market sizing is based on third-party regional HR tech reports, not company-specific claims. Tailwinds are corroborated by multiple industry analyses.

Competitive Landscape

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Ourteam enters a fragmented market for hiring tools, positioning itself as a candidate-first, high-volume AI screener for the Asian market, a segment where large global platforms are often not the default choice.

The competitive map is best understood by segment. The primary incumbents are global ATS and HR tech platforms like LinkedIn Talent Solutions and Indeed, which dominate employer workflows but are not optimized for high-volume, entry-level screening in specific Asian markets. Challengers include regional job boards and newer AI-powered assessment tools, though none with the specific candidate-centric, multi-company matching model ourteam describes. Adjacent substitutes are the manual processes of recruitment agencies and internal HR teams, which the company's AI screening aims to replace.

Ourteam's current defensible edge appears to be its early focus on a specific geographic and use-case wedge: high-volume hiring in Asia, with a platform that starts with the candidate experience. The accelerator selection with GenAI Fund and NVIDIA Inception provides a credibility and technical access edge in AI development [TechNode Global, Oct 2025] [The Edge Malaysia, 2025]. However, this edge is perishable. It relies on first-mover brand recognition in a niche and the rapid accumulation of proprietary interview response data to improve its matching algorithms before well-capitalized incumbents decide to build or buy similar functionality for the region.

The company is most exposed on the employer side of its marketplace. Building a dense network of hiring companies is the classic chicken-and-egg problem for any matching platform. Without disclosed customer names or deployment metrics, it is unclear if ourteam has secured the anchor enterprise clients or volume of job listings needed to make the candidate value proposition sustainable. A competitor with deeper enterprise sales relationships in Southeast Asia, or a global platform that decides to localize its AI screening product, could quickly nullify ourteam's early advantage.

The most plausible 18-month scenario hinges on execution speed versus capital. If ourteam can use its pre-seed capital and accelerator resources to sign a few major regional employers and demonstrate improved hiring outcomes, it could become the preferred screening layer for volume roles in its target markets. The winner in this case would be a platform like ourteam that becomes the data pipeline for early-stage talent. Conversely, if traction among employers stalls, the company risks becoming a feature rather than a platform. The loser would be any standalone AI interview tool that fails to achieve liquidity on both sides of its market, leaving it vulnerable to being displaced by an integrated module from a larger ATS provider that already owns the employer relationship.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Competitive positioning inferred from company claims and market context; no direct competitor data is publicly available.

Opportunity

PUBLIC If ourteam can establish its AI screening as the default first step for high-volume hiring in Southeast Asia, the prize is a platform that intermediates millions of job applications annually across a region with a rapidly digitizing workforce.

The headline opportunity is to become the primary matching layer for entry and mid-level professional roles in Asia, a position analogous to what Hired or Vettery achieved in narrower Western tech markets but at a significantly larger scale of candidates. The evidence that this outcome is reachable, not merely aspirational, lies in the specific regional focus and the early institutional validation. The company is targeting a market where manual CV review is a pronounced bottleneck for employers facing high application volumes, and where a uniform, AI-driven first filter could standardize a fragmented process [Digital News Asia, 2024]. Selection into the GenAI Fund FastTrack AI Accelerator, which is supported by NVIDIA Inception, provides a signal of technical credibility and access to resources that could accelerate product development against this goal [The Edge Malaysia, 2025].

Growth from a pre-seed startup to a regional standard would likely follow one of several concrete paths. The scenarios below outline plausible, cited routes to scale.

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst	Why it's plausible
Accelerator-Led Enterprise Adoption	The company leverages its accelerator affiliation and NVIDIA backing to secure pilot partnerships with large, regional enterprises (e.g., banking, retail, telecom) for bulk hiring.	A flagship partnership announcement with a named enterprise customer, using the accelerator's network for introductions.	The GenAI Fund accelerator is explicitly designed to connect ASEAN AI startups with enterprise partners and provide GPU resources, making this a logical next step [Business Today, 2025].
Platform-as-a-Service for Job Boards	ourteam's AI screening is white-labeled and embedded into existing major job platforms and aggregators across Southeast Asia, becoming their de facto assessment layer.	A product shift or API launch focused on B2B2C distribution, followed by an integration with a regional job board.	The company's published materials frame its AI as a tool for "employers" broadly, and the model of assessing candidates once for multiple companies is inherently platform-shaped [ourteam.ai].

For any of these scenarios to generate lasting value, they must trigger a compounding advantage. The most plausible flywheel for ourteam begins with employer adoption. As more companies list roles on the platform and screen candidates through its system, the value for candidates rises because a single AI interview unlocks access to more potential jobs [StartupRise.org, 2024]. A growing candidate pool, in turn, improves the match quality and fill rate for employers, attracting more employers. This two-sided network effect is the classic marketplace dynamic. A deeper, secondary moat could develop from data: consistent assessment data across hundreds of thousands of interviews could allow the AI to better predict candidate success for specific role types, improving match accuracy over manual methods or simpler filters [ourteam.ai]. There is no public evidence yet that this flywheel is in motion, but the product design is built to enable it.

Quantifying the size of the win requires looking at comparable platforms. For a scenario where ourteam becomes a dominant matching platform for professional roles in Southeast Asia, a reasonable comparable is Seek's investment in JobStreet, which valued the Southeast Asian business at billions of dollars. A more direct, though earlier-stage, comparison could be to Hired, which was acquired by The Adecco Group for an estimated $200 million at a time when it focused on the tech vertical in the US and Canada [various reports]. If the accelerator-led enterprise adoption scenario plays out and ourteam captures a material share of the high-volume hiring market for large corporations in the region, an outcome in the high hundreds of millions of dollars in enterprise value is plausible (scenario, not a forecast). The absence of disclosed customer metrics or revenue makes any precise valuation extrapolation premature, but the scale of the targeted problem supports the ambition.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Opportunity framing is extrapolated from cited product claims and accelerator selection; specific growth catalysts and comparables are based on single-source reports.

Sources

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1. [Digital News Asia, 2024] ourteam secures pre-seed backing from First Move and Silicon Valley Angels to make AI screening | https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/startups/ourteam-secures-pre-seed-backing-first-move-and-silicon-valley-angels-make-ai-screening

2. [StartupRise.org, 2024] Ourteam Raises Pre-Seed Funding to Expand Its AI Interview Platform Across Asia | https://startuprise.org/ourteam-raises-pre-seed-funding-to-expand-its-ai-interview-platform-across-asia/

3. [ourteam.ai] ourteam.ai | https://ourteam.ai

4. [LinkedIn] Yewwai Kong - building ourteam, the AI recruiter for Asia | https://my.linkedin.com/in/yew-wai-kong

5. [TechNode Global, Oct 2025] Singapore's ourteam secures pre-seed backing from First Move and Silicon Valley angels | https://technode.global/2025/10/28/singapores-ourteam-secures-pre-seed-backing-from-first-move-and-silicon-valley-angels/

6. [The Edge Malaysia, 2025] GenAI Fund allocates US$6 mil for Asean AI start-ups | https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/777983

7. [Ken Research, 2024] Asia Pacific HR Tech Market Outlook 2028 | https://www.kenresearch.com/blog/2024/02/asia-pacific-hr-tech-market/

8. [McKinsey, 2023] The State of Organizations 2023 | https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/the-state-of-organizations-2023

9. [Business Today, 2025] GenAI Fund Launches US$6 Million FastTrack AI Accelerator For ASEAN Startups | https://www.businesstoday.com.my/2025/11/13/genai-fund-launches-us6-million-fasttrack-ai-accelerator-for-asean-startups/