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Andela
Enterprise Software
Andela is a global talent marketplace, originally focused on training and placing African software engineers, that connects vetted technology talent with companies worldwide.
$379M
-$5.42
50.83%
30 days ago
$10.67
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Andela was founded in 2014 by Jeremy Johnson, Christina Sass, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, and Ian Carnevale with an initial mission centered on identifying, training, and employing talented software engineers in Nigeria and other African countries, on the premise that technical talent is evenly distributed globally even though opportunity and access to global technology jobs are not. The company's original model combined a highly selective admissions process, intensive technical training for accepted engineers, and then placement of those engineers as remote team members embedded within client companies' engineering organizations, typically in the United States and Europe, letting Andela engineers work on real production codebases for well-funded technology companies while still living and working from their home countries. Over time Andela broadened its geographic scope beyond Africa to include vetted technologists from Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere, evolving from a training-and-placement model focused specifically on junior African engineers into a broader global talent marketplace connecting experienced software engineers, designers, and product managers with companies seeking to build distributed teams. This shift reflected both the maturation of the remote-work market broadly, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fact that many of Andela's earliest engineers had grown into senior, highly experienced professionals no longer needing entry-level training. Andela has counted a number of large enterprises and venture-backed startups among its clients, and has continued to emphasize its origins in expanding access to global tech opportunity for talent in underrepresented regions as a core part of its brand identity. The company has raised substantial venture funding from investors including Softbank Vision Fund, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and Generation Investment Management, reaching unicorn status, and competes with other global talent and staffing platforms such as Toptal and Turing.
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