Andelathe world’s largest private marketplace for technical talent, is is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of international events held from 17 to 25 May.
These events take place in key global locations including USA, UK, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Egypt, Brazil, and Pakistanattracting over 550 key stakeholders. Panelists include Andela’s six visionary founders, as well as past and present employees, talent, investors, customers and industry players, highlighting a decade of the company’s significant impact on Africa’s technology landscape and its growing global impact.
Details
Founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014 by Jeremy Johnson, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Nadayar Enegesi, Bryce Nkengsa, Ian Carnevaleand Christina Sas, Adela was built on the belief that “brilliant is distributed equally, but opportunity is not.” This guiding principle has propelled Andela to the forefront of matching outstanding technologists from traditionally neglected regions such as Africa and Latin America with companies seeking to strengthen capabilities and skill sets. After successfully piloting a remote model in Ghana and Egypt, Andela fully embraced this approach in 2020, transitioning to a global talent marketplace that spans remotely in more than 135 countries.
By The Numbers
Over the past decade, the company has achieved notable milestones including:
- Gathered one of the largest technology communities in the world with more than 5 million members
- Adela has 98% customer satisfaction rate. with their quality talent
- 110,000 technologists have been trained through Andela’s programs, surpassing the original 10-year target of 100,000
- 15% of Africa an estimated 716,000 engineers they were skillful through Adela
- Andela’s talent market in Africa is expanding 49 countries
- Adela’s talent pool in Africa has increased by 179% annually on average over the last 10 years
- As of January 2020, technical talent from Nigeria grew by 791%from Kenya has increased 451%and from Ghana has grown 955%
Because this matters
It is supported by prominent investors such as Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Softbank, Google Ventures, Serena Venturesand Generation Investment Management, Andela is the first talent marketplace to become a unicorn company and one of seven unicorn companies founded in Africa. Andela is deftly responding to the accelerating digital transformation and insatiable demand for AI-driven technology talent.
Through the global market for highly qualified technologists, Andela’s adaptive recruitment model has emerged as a future-proof solution, empowering businesses such as MasterCard, GitHuband Tawi Fesh to rapidly scale world-class on-demand teams to meet their evolving needs.
Leveraging 60% of Andela’s technology talent pool from largely untapped markets such as Africa and LATAM, these businesses gain access to cost-effective expertise and diversity of thought, while also benefiting from hiring speeds up to 70% faster than traditional recruitment methods.
What they say
“Building a great company is essentially an exercise in hiring great people. At Andela, I have been incredibly blessed to work with amazing people on this decade long journey,” shares Jeremy JohnsonCo-founder and CEO at Andela.
“Bringing people together and fostering a sense of community in our market has been part of our secret sauce. As we look to the future, Andela will continue to demonstrate why we are the most trusted marketplace for technical talent for businesses. Our clients will continue to experience the world as a recruiting team, and technology will continue to enable us to extend that reach.”
“Celebrating our 10-year milestone with hundreds of industry players around the world, including ex-Andeans, is a testament to the strong community we’ve built and the leaders we’ve nurtured who are making a significant impact in the tech space across Africa and globally“, says Mike NdimurukundoCEO of Andela Rwanda.
“As pioneers in building a distributed workforce, our success is proof that opportunities can be effectively distributed, enabling technologists from Africa or anywhere in the world to drive innovation. The journey does not end here. together, we will continue to push boundaries and redefine the future of work.”.
What happens next?
As Andela enters its second decade, the company remains committed to advancing the future of borderless work now embraced by 58% of companies.
Moving forward, Andela intends to train more world-class technologists, further enhance its AI platform and make a transformative impact with partners in a variety of sectors, including climate technology and healthcare.
Follow us on our WhatsApp channel, Twitterand Instagramand subscribe to our weekly newsletter to make sure you don’t miss any news.
Related