Andela

Andela Inc.
Private
Founded May 21, 2013 (May 21, 2013)
Headquarters New York City, New York, United States
Number of locations
 5
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Jeremy Johnson (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)
Services Computer science education, programming, outsourcing, software training
Number of employees
 1000 (March 2018)
Website Andela.com

Andela is an American company that specializes in training software developers. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in New York City.[1]

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 from 2U and Christina Sass,[2] started Andela as a training company to match developers in emerging markets not known as technology hubs[3] 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.[4]

In 2018, Andela Nigeria was ranked by a Nigerian website as the best place to work in Nigeria in its annual survey of the "Best 100 Companies To Work For" in the country. [5] Andela Nigeria had ranked eighth in the same survey in 2017.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Seetharaman, Deepa (June 16, 2016). "Zuckerberg's Venture to Invest in Startup Andela; Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes its first investment in company that trains developers in Africa". Wall Street Journal (Online). New York.
  2. ↑ Lovering, Joanne (August 16, 2016). "Former Mississauga News intern's company gets $24 million boost from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg". The Mississauga News.
  3. ↑ Ufeli, Mohini (December 18, 2014). "This Company Is Paying Nigerians to Learn Computer Programming". Wired.
  4. ↑ "Andela, a tech training and development outsourcer for African coders, raises $40M". October 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ https://www.jobberman.com/blog/best-100-companies-to-work-for-nigeria-2018/
  6. ↑ https://www.jobberman.com/blog/jobberman-best-100-companies-work-nigeria-2016/
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.