Andela Inc.

Andela Inc.

Andela was founded in 2014 to connect global technologists with enterprise opportunities, initially placing software engineers with companies in Africa and beyond. It has since pivoted to an AI-focused talent platform. Carrol Chang, a former Uber executive, was appointed CEO in September 2024 and leads a team that includes senior leaders from Google, MIT, and McKinsey. Andela’s strategy centers on three revenue lines: Blended Teams (deploying AI-native engineers), AI System Development (training models and building AI systems), and Training as a Service (upskilling client workforces). The firm reports 17,000 certified AI-native engineers in its network and claims 98% enterprise client satisfaction. It explicitly targets AI production workflow engineering, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and agentic AI. Geographic scope is global: case studies name teams spanning Europe, Kenya, Brazil, India, and North America. The firm has trained 200,000 technologists since 2014 and counts “thousands” of global enterprises, scale-ups, and unicorns as commercial clients. Backed by leading venture investors — including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Spark Capital — Andela is structured as a Delaware C-corp. It operates no disclosed separate philanthropic arm. September 2024: Carrol Chang appointed CEO, replacing Jeremy Johnson (per firm website, September 2024). Andela’s structural differentiator is its “human layer for enterprise AI” concept — positioning training and assessment as a service rather than a pure staffing model. This lets it sell to both engineering leaders (for production deployment) and procurement teams (for vendor-managed services), blending consulting with talent marketplace economics.