Fuzu an online career development and talent management platform that supports job seekers in emerging markets teased what has been wildly considered them as closing shop today. According to their LinkedIn page, it seems the company is bracing itself for something new. The company was doing this by giving job seekers access to career support and guidance as well as jobs that best match their skills and experience.
The company opened up in Uganda in 2018 and in March 2020, Fuzu Limited raised a €3.4 million Series A round to support the development of the next phase of the Fuzu.com platform and the learning proposition, to further strengthen the team across core markets and to accelerate expansion across Africa.
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The platform Fuzu was launched in September 2015 and has over the past five years become the most popular career development platform in Kenya and Uganda with more than 7.5 million lifetime users.
Fuzu platform is meant to provide AI-powered personalized guidance to individual users, and talent acquisition and data services to organizations, supported by a world-class team in Kenya, Uganda, and Finland, where Fuzu Ltd is incorporated. Africa – the world’s largest job market by 2040 Today, Fuzu has close to a million registered users in Kenya and Uganda and more than 1,000 organizations that have used the platform to find and nurture talent.
UPDATE: This article was updated to reflect that the company is not closing but rather soon to launch something new.
