Estel Technologies raises €270K to modernise tech staffing sales

Estel Technologies has secured pre-seed funding to expand its AI-powered sales platform for tech staffing firms, enhancing its proprietary matching technology and accelerating growth across European markets. HRtech Estel Technologies raises €270K to modernise tech staffing sales Estel Technologies has secured pre-seed funding to expand its AI-powered sales platform for tech staffing firms, enhancing its proprietary matching technology and accelerating growth across European markets. Tamara Djurickovic 1 hour ago Share Share Send email Copy link Bulgaria-based Estel Technologies has raised €270,000 in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-native sales platform for the global tech talent industry.

The round was led by Vitosha Ventures, with participation from Austrian angel investor Kerem Basak, founder and CEO of FB Consulting. Founded by Bogdan Stavrev , Ivo Michorov and Yusuf Berki , Estel is developing an AI-powered workspace designed to help technology staffing firms identify, verify and prioritise sales opportunities. The platform combines demand verification, lead scoring and buyer matching in a single system, replacing the multiple disconnected tools typically used by recruiters and staffing sales teams.

The company is addressing inefficiencies in a global tech staffing market where recruiters often rely on outdated or duplicate job listings and fragmented workflows. Estel's proprietary Demand Confidence Score analyses market signals, verifies active hiring demand, ranks opportunities for individual users and automatically matches them with prospective buyers most likely to convert. The new funding will be used to strengthen the platform's core technology, including its demand verification, scoring and matching algorithms, accelerate customer growth across key European markets, and support the company's progress towards a seed funding round and planned expansion into the US in 2027.