From a Single Hub in Lagos, Andela Surpasses 10-Year Goal in Over 135 Countries
Andela,, the world’s largest private marketplace for technical talent, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
The celebration stretches from the 17th to 25th of May, with a series of international events in the US, UK, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Egypt, Brazil, and Pakistan.
The 9 Days long series of events have attracted over 550 key stakeholders and participants including
- Andela’s six visionary founders
- former and current employees,
- talents ,
- investors,
- clients, and
- industry players.
About Andela
Andela is a global private digital talent marketplace that employs an adaptive hiring model to help companies rewrite their workforce strategies to include borderless, remote-fluent teams.
Jeremy Johnson, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Nadayar Enegesi, Brice Nkengsa, Ian Carnevale, and Christina Sass co-founded the company in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014.
Andela was built on the belief that ‘brilliance is equally distributed, but opportunity is not’.
After a successful trial of a remote-first model in Ghana and Egypt, Andela fully adopted the approach in 2020.
Today, it is a global, remote-first talent ecosystem of more than 4 million technologists spanning over 135 countries.
The digital talent in the marketplace is highly skilled in advanced and in-demand technologies such as
- Application Engineering,
- Artificial Intelligence,
- Generative AI,
- Cloud, Data & Advanced Analytics, and
- Product & Design.
Andela is backed by prominent investors including ; Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Softbank, Google Ventures, Serena Ventures, and Generation Investment Management,
How It Works
1. Andela Talent Cloud
This is a unified platform that uses AI-matching algorithms to pair ideal digital talent with client-specific roles and skills.
Clients can select individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 70% faster at 30-50% less cost than traditional approaches.
Andela provides full-service, premium support teams that manage all the groundwork associated with borderless hiring, from compliance and payroll, to talent management.
60% of these reside in regions like Africa and Latin America, offering improved time-zone overlap.
2. The Andela Learning Community
The Andela Learning Community provides technical training and upskilling programs to ensure continuous skill development.
Andela’s History Of Firsts
1. Andela is the first talent marketplace to become a unicorn company and one of the seven unicorn companies founded in Africa.
2. Andela was one of the first to start recruiting tech talent in Africa in 2014.
3. The first Twitter employee in West Africa came from Andela
Impact And Achievements In 10 years
Over the past decade, the company has achieved remarkable milestones, including:
- Assembled one of the world’s largest tech communities with over 5 million members
- Andela has a 98% client satisfaction rate with their quality talent
- 110,000 technologists have been trained through Andela’s programs, exceeding the original 10-year goal of 100,000
- 15% of Africa’s estimated 716,000 engineers were skilled through Andela
- Andela’s talent marketplace in Africa spans 49 countries
- Andela’s talent pool in Africa has grown 179% a year on average for the past 10 years
- Since January 2020, technical talent from Nigeria has grown 791%, from Kenya has grown 451%, and from Ghana has grown 955%
- Andela technologists have won awards for the projects they have delivered for clients, including Best Digital Bank in Egypt 2023.
Andela caters to businesses such as MasterCard, GitHub, and Tawi Fesh to rapidly scale world-class teams on demand to meet their evolving needs.
Digital talents from Andela has worked on projects for some of today’s most innovative companies including:
- The Weather Company’s mobile application,
- GitHub’s testing and notification program,
- GroupM Nexus Google Cloud Optimization,
- Mindshare’s Applied AI platform Synapse and much more!
The Future
With assurance of continual excellent service, Co-Founder and CEO at Andela, Jeremy Johnson, speaking of the future said,
“ As we look to the future, Andela will continue to show why we are the most trusted tech talent marketplace for enterprises.”
Our customers will continue to experience the world as a hiring pool, and technology will continue to enable us to extend that reach.” he added.
Ofejiro Ikogho, Community Programs Manager of Andela reiterating said,
“As Andela enters its second decade, the company remains committed to advancing the borderless future of work”
Moving forward, Andela plans to train more world-class technologists, and further enhance its AI-powered platform.
The company also hopes to drive transformative impact with partners across various sectors, including climate tech and healthcare.
For additional information, please contact andela@wimbart.com
