{"id":63145,"date":"2015-06-26T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=63145"},"modified":"2015-06-26T10:06:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T06:06:49","slug":"andela","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/andela","title":{"rendered":"Startup Bringing Employable Tech Training to Africa Raises Large Series A Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andela.co\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/295\/19174341622_8c349604af_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"117\" \/>Andela<\/a>, a startup constructing computer science educations programs across Africa, has raised a Series A round led by Spark Capital.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The round is believed to worth more than $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Andela was founded by Canadian entrepreneur Ian Carnevale, as well as Jeremy Johnson, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, and Christina Sass.<\/p>\n<p>The company pays kids to learn how to code, then finds them paying jobs. In the process Andela is creating a new a new model education and hiring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vhJik9S9nxg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, so far the acceptance rate for applicants has been less than 1%&mdash;significantly lower than, say, Harvard (5.9%) or Princeton (7.4%). The program is currently taking in an average of less than a dozen students per month, though the founders say this number will increase with the new capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andela, a startup constructing computer science educations programs across Africa, has raised a Series A round led by Spark Capital. The round is believed to worth more than $10 million. Andela was founded by Canadian entrepreneur Ian Carnevale, as well as Jeremy Johnson, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, and Christina Sass. The company pays kids to learn how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":63147,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-63145","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/63145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/63145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63145"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=63145"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=63145"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=63145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}