Oswald Yeo met his co-founders Seah Ying Cong and Looi Qin En at Hwa Chong Institution. They started by helping friends find internships, and paused their university studies to work on Glints full time.
In August 2013 Glints had 38 members. In 2014 the team raised about $59,940 from angels and JFDI, then a $475,000 seed round from East Ventures in October. They aimed for about $400,000 and turned away roughly $250,000 because they did not want to raise that much yet.
By 2015 the platform had more than 7,000 active members. Looi left in 2017. In February 2018 the recruiter HRnetGroup invested, and in July 2019 a $6.8 million Series B led by Monk's Hill Ventures funded expansion to Vietnam and Hong Kong.
In April 2021 PERSOL Holdings led a $22.5 million Series C, the largest round into a career platform in Southeast Asia at the time. In August 2022 Glints added a $50 million Series D, with DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital and PERSOL.