Andela
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| Andela | |
| Company type | Private |
| Genre | Talent accelerator[1] |
| Founded | May 21, 2014 |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 5 |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jeremy Johnson (Andela)(Co-Founder & CEO) Christina Sass (Co-Founder & COO) Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (Co-Founder & Recruitment Director) Nadayar Enegesi (Co-Founder & Director of Learning) Brice Nkengsa (Co-Founder & Director of Technology) Ian Carnevale (Co-Founder) Seni Sulyman(Vice President, Global Operations) |
| Services | Computer science education, programming, outsourcing, software training |
Number of employees | 1458 (November 2018)[2] |
| Website | Andela.com |
Andela is an American company that identifies and develops software developers. The company launched operations in Nigeria in 2014, to help global companies overcome the severe shortage of skilled software developers and has offices in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the United States.[3]
History
Andela was founded in 2014 by four professionals who were working in the online education and recruitment business. The founders, Ian Carnevale, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Jeremy Johnson (formerly of 2U), and Christina Sass,[4] started Andela as a training company to match developers in emerging markets not known as technology hubs[5] with North American companies. In June 2016, the company received funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2017, Andela raised $40 million in Series C funding. The investment came from CRE Venture Capital, DBL Partners, Amplo, Salesforce Ventures and TLcom Capital, becoming one of the most highly funded African companies not based in Africa.[6]
In November 2018 it officially launched its office in Rwanda. Andela also announced its first female Nigerian country Director, Omowale David - Ashiru in 2018.[7]
In January 2019 Andela raised $100 million in the next round of funding.[8]
On 17th September 2019, Andela made a bold move when it announced the departure of nearly 250 junior developers and staff from its Nigeria and Uganda offices, with another 170 potentially impacted in Kenya. The move came in as the company looked to restructure its talent pool to more closely align with global market demand.[9]
References
- ^ Jackson, Tom How Andela is helping Africa beat the world’s developer shortage The Next Web March 31, 2016
- ^ "Company Profile". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ Lohr, Steve (2017-10-10). "Start-Up Bets on Tech Talent Pipeline From Africa". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ Lovering, Joanne (August 16, 2016). "Former Mississauga News intern's company gets $24 million boost from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg". The Mississauga News.
- ^ Ufeli, Mohini (December 18, 2014). "This Company Is Paying Nigerians to Learn Computer Programming". Wired.
- ^ "Andela, a tech training and development outsourcer for African coders, raises $40M". October 10, 2017.
- ^ https://nairametrics.com/2018/09/13/omowale-david-ashiru-andela-nigeria-country-director/ Nairametrics.com
- ^ "Connecting African software developers with top tech companies nets Andela $100 million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
- ^ Bright, Jake. "Africa-focused Andela cuts 400 staff as it confirms $50M in revenue". TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 September 2019.