Talently, a Peruvian EdTech company dedicated to training and connecting Latin American tech talent with international companies, has raised $750,000 from the Inter-American Development Bank’s innovation lab, IDB Lab, to advance its goal of becoming the largest tech talent marketplace in Latin America.
With this, the company has raised a total of $5 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2019 by Domenica Obando, Roxana Kern, and Cristian Vega, Talently offers a skills enhancement program and the opportunity to access remote work in US technology companies. It seeks to promote three key initiatives for the sector: increase access and participation of women in the technology field, promote the development of the industry in Central America, and launch a product that streamlines the recruitment of Latin American tech talent in the United States.
Talently said the latest capital injection will enable the company to move forward toward its goal of becoming the largest tech talent marketplace in Latin America.
Domenica Obando, CEO of Talently, said,
Thanks to the trust that the IDB has placed in Talently, we hope to advance towards our goal of making Latin America a technology hub, just like India did 30 years ago.
Talently said it has placed more than 4 thousand Latin American programmers in companies such as Microsoft, Rappi, Nubank, Paypal, Pinterest, Mercado Libre, Globant, and more, both in Latin America and in the United States. The company claimed to have more than five thousand students and over 150 hiring companies that seek to grow and scale their technological scopes with its help.
Talently aims to benefit 160 thousand Latin American professionals, of which 40 thousand will be women. The platform places special emphasis on the gender approach by empowering female talent to improve their skills and employability in the technology sector, a context in which women barely reach 8 percent of the technology industry in the region.
The company last raised $3 million in June this year in a seed round led by 500 Latam Startups, with participation from Alaya Capital, Salkantay Ventures, Newtype Ventures, Poder Ventures, Latin Leap, and angel investors such as the founders of Automattic (WordPress), Cornershop, Clara, and Startupeable.
