Andela

Andela Inc.
Private
Founded May 21, 2014 (May 21, 2014)
Headquarters New York City, New York, United States
Number of locations
 Lagos, Nigeria, Nairobi, Kenya
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Jeremy Johnson (Co-Founder & CEO)
Christina Sass (Co-Founder & COO)
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (Co-Founder & Recruitment Director)
Ian Carnevale (Co-Founder & Brand Director)
Brice Nkenga (Co-Founder & Director of Engineering)
Nadayar Enegesi (Co-Founder & Director of Training)
Services Computer science education, programming, outsourcing, software training
Number of employees
 200 (November 2016)
Website Andela.com

Andela is an American talent accelerator that recruits and trains software developers and connects them with employers globally.[1] The company identifies high-potential young people in Africa and gives them the training and mentorship needed to work as full-time developers, then integrates them remotely for technology companies.[2] Andela is based in New York City, with additional offices in Africa.[3]


Overview

Andela's training and education program unites qualified African students, regardless of age or income, with leading developers who teach them to code.[4] The four-year training program, which pays its students, is highly selective.[2][5] Jeremy Johnson, the company's CEO, has said that in Nigeria its recruitment rate was around 0.7% of the 15,000 applicants it had received to that point.[6] Within six months of starting the program, those students who have been accepted start to be placed at technology companies that partner with Andela, and receive continual training and professional development.[7][8] Andela has partnered with Microsoft, IBM, 2U, Udacity, and others.[9]

History

Andela was founded in May 2014 by a team of entrepreneurs from Nigeria, Cameroon, the United States, and Canada. The members of that founding team are: Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (Nigerian serial entrepreneur), Jeremy Johnson (founder of now public 2U, American), Ian Carnevale (edtech entrpreneur, Canadian), Christina Sass (economic development expert, American), Brice Nkengsa (Blackberry and Pivotal Labs lead engineer, Cameroonian), and Nadayar Enegesi (Technology and Learning expert, Nigerian) [10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Veselinovic, Milena The startup that's harder to get into than Harvard CNN. November 20, 2016
  2. 1 2 Veselinovic, Milena Want to join the world's most exclusive all-female developer team? CNN. November 20, 2016
  3. ↑ Prive, Tanya 10 Hot Startups In NYC Forbes. November 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ Solis, Brian 14 startups that will change our everyday life VentureBeat. November 20, 2016
  5. ↑ Mulligan, Gabriella Andela partners Codementor for on-demand mentorship for graduates Disrupt Africa. November 20, 2016
  6. ↑ Adegoke, Yinka Nigeria’s Andela has closed a large funding round led by an early Twitter investor Quartz. November 20, 2016
  7. ↑ Bidwell, Allie African Company Pays People to Learn Computer Science U.S. News & World Report. November 20, 2016
  8. ↑ Finley, Klint This Company is Paying Nigerians to Learn Computer Programming Wired. November 20, 2016
  9. ↑ Magee, Christine Backed By Spark Capital, Andela Will Develop A Continent Of Tech Talen TechCrunch. November 20, 2016
  10. ↑ "Andela Team Page".

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