Startup Seren Partners With Dubai-Based Faster Capital For AI Program

(MENAFN- Market Press Release) December 16, 2025 8:30 am - Partnership through a Program to accelerate Seren's AI driven vocational education platform, targeting Brazil and Europe, validate market traction and support a $400,000 USD raise with mentorship, technical resources and go to market support.

The Rio de Janeiro–based startup Seren-the only Brazilian EdTech in the vocational experimentation segment-has just entered into an unprecedented partnership with the Dubai (United Arab Emirates) office of Faster Capital, one of the world's largest venture capital builders, to lead the next investment round for its new Artificial Intelligence Program.

The company expects to raise around R$3 million to develop AI-powered career products. Headquartered in Rio, Seren connects students with freelancers and companies through its solutions, enabling professional experimentation before choosing a career path.

With a strong presence in the Arab world, Faster Capital ranks number one in terms of the number of startups supported as well as capital invested and raised. It has backed more than 744 startups, raising over US$2.2 billion, with more than US$683.2 million in direct investments across 290 companies worldwide.

According to Seren's CTO and co-founder, Vinícius Martins, expectations for the new AI business vertical are very positive:“We are very confident in the partnership with Faster Capital for our current phase in Artificial Intelligence. Since early 2024, when we strengthened our long-term strategic planning, everything indicates that Seren is already on the right path to establishing our position with AI in the global vocational education market, fulfilling our current ambition to become an AITech,” Vinícius highlights.

Vinícius also notes that Seren's AI journey has already reached an excellent level of maturity compared to LATAM EdTechs.“At the beginning of 2024, we launched SerenDeep, our Generative AI for Careers, which works like a 'unique ChatGPT' that answers career-related questions such as salaries by region, roles, required skills, and job market health, based on relevant public-domain career data and Seren's proprietary data,” explains Seren's CTO.

In a previous round, the Rio-based startup raised an additional R$450,000 from Florida Ventures-whose partners include psychiatrist and author Dr. Augusto Cury, a well-known bestselling writer-along with other venture capital firms that also invested in the company.

The artificial intelligence sector has experienced exponential growth in recent years, driven by the increasing adoption of AI-powered technologies across a wide range of services. And, according to Vinícius, in Brazil's challenging EdTech market, this growth is reflected in the diversification of new revenue streams.“Those who fail to implement AI and generate benefits from this revolution will end up falling behind,” he concludes.

Market opportunity & problem statement
Global education and labor markets face a critical vocational mismatch: high student dissatisfaction and low access to vocational pathways. In Brazil, Seren's research shows widespread career-choice uncertainty and limited vocational program reach. The vocational education and training (VET) market is expanding rapidly, creating a blue-ocean opportunity for AI-enabled career guidance that bridges education-to-employment gaps and addresses employer talent needs.
Startup solution & differentiation
Seren combines a proprietary pedagogical methodology, 200+ expert mentors, on-demand master classes, and SerenDeep a generative AI... +971 555 855 663

career tutor to deliver personalized“Vocational X-Ray” recommendations and mentoring at scale. The platform supports B2B, B2G and B2C channels and already shows user traction (17,500 mentoring engagements, +650 AI chat sessions/month, and 1,100 life-changing user outcomes). Strategic partnerships include Positivo Tecnologia, SESI-SENAI and pilot projects in Portugal, giving Seren defensible channels to scale. Seren's integrated approach human mentors + domain-tailored GenAI fills a market white space with few direct competitors.
FasterCapital LaunchUp value
Through FasterCapital's LaunchUp program, Seren gains capital support, access to a global investor network, technical acceleration, and commercialization guidance. FasterCapital's selective criteria and track record (structured investments, product-market scaling, and global mentorship) validate Seren's product-market fit and expedite API monetization, international rollouts, and fundraising execution. The program will help Seren decouple SerenDeep as a standalone B2C product and deploy a freemium model to accelerate data capture and model refinement.
Executive quotes
“Hesham Zreik:“FasterCapital invests in founders solving real market gaps with scalable tech. Seren's combination of vocational pedagogy and generative AI addresses a global skills problemwe see a clear path to product-market leadership and strong ecosystem impact through LaunchUp.””
Igor Correa, CEO & CMO, Seren:“This partnership acceleratesour mission to give every student and young professional an assertive vocational path. With FasterCapital's resources and network, we'll scale SerenDeep, expand in Europe, and deliver predictive labor insights -all while raising $400K to fuel our next 12months of product and commercial growth.”... +971 555 855 663

Growth trajectory & future plans
Near-term priorities include launching SerenDeep as a standalone B2C/API product, rolling out a freemium SerenPass in partner schools to build proprietary career-choice data, and deploying multilingual GenAI features for international scale. Target milestones: expand Portuguese market presence (2025

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