Andela

Andela is a global talent network that connects technologists with employers, building technology teams for organisations worldwide and providing the human compute layer behind modern AI systems. Founded in 2014, the company draws on a community of more than 150,000 technologists across over 135 countries, with a particular focus on emerging markets. Since its founding it has trained more than 200,000 professionals.

Its principal product, Andela Talent Cloud, is a platform for managing the complete global talent lifecycle, allowing enterprises to source, hire, manage and pay technical talent from emerging markets in one integrated experience. Supporting it are AI-matching algorithms that learn from thousands of data points in the hiring journey to identify suitable engineers. Andela reports that this approach matches talent up to 70% faster and at 30-50% less cost than traditional hiring methods, with clients seeing project delivery 33% faster.

Beyond staffing, the company offers AI services that include training models, deploying AI-native engineers and upskilling the teams that build AI systems. Its stated technical domains span AI-powered talent matching, machine learning, talent lifecycle management technology and remote team enablement. Clients include organisations in financial services and healthcare and pharmaceuticals, as well as enterprise technology firms.

Andela describes its mission as resting on the belief that brilliance is evenly distributed around the world but opportunity is not. Its culture is remote-fluent and distributed, with an emphasis on upskilling and professional development for technologists in emerging markets.