Startup Andela Bets on Helping Companies Hire Far-Flung IT Staff

Tech-recruit­ing start­up Andela Inc. said Wednes­day it has raised $200 mil­lion to help fund its effort to con­nect employ­ers with soft­ware engi­neers in an increas­ing­ly glob­al search for tech talent.

Soft­Bank Group Corp. led the invest­ment in the sev­en-year-old New York-based start­up, whose plat­form employs arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to match employ­ers with work­ers in a range of mar­kets includ­ing Africa, Latin Amer­i­can and East­ern Europe.

“Hir­ing remote tech­ni­cal tal­ent is one of the top chal­lenges that com­pa­nies face today,” Lydia Jett, a part­ner at Soft­Bank Invest­ment Advis­ers, a sub­sidiary that man­ages SoftBank’s invest­ment funds, said in a state­ment. “We believe Andela will become the pre­ferred tal­ent part­ner for the world’s best com­pa­nies as remote and hybrid work arrange­ments become the norm,” she said.

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