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Codementor is an online platform that connects coders with mentors and clients for projects on a freelance basis. [1] [2] The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan, and San Francisco, California. [3]
Codementor was founded in 2013 by Weiting Liu. [4]
Codementor received the initial funding from Kai-Fu Lee’s venture capital firm TMI and participated in the Techstars accelerator program in Seattle in 2013. [5] [6] It was officially launched in 2014. [6]
In 2015, Codementor launched Live Group classes [7] and partnered with online learning platform Udemy. [8]
Codementor was one of the startups chosen by the Taiwanese Government to represent Taiwan in the 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in San Francisco. [9] In March 2016, Codementor partnered with Africa-based startup Andela. [10]
In 2016, Codementor raised $1.6 million in a seed funding round. [11]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Codementor launched an initiative designed to match coders with software projects in the fight against the virus. [12]
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