GitStart raises $5M to redistribute coding work

Hi Neo family,

Please join us in congratulating GitStart on raising $5M to help understaffed tech teams distribute coding tasks to junior engineers worldwide. We led the seed round alongside many leaders in our community, including Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, former CTO Mike Schroepfer, Airbnb co-founder Nate Blecharczyk, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Google VP Parisa Tabriz, and others.

The GitStart global talent marketplace empowers freelance engineers while eliminating management challenges like different timezones and languages. Its peer-review system rewards the best work while helping employers get quality code quickly.

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We’re breaking the barriers that block millions of promising coders from getting work After I spent a decade overcoming obstacles like immigration and discrimination, I’m delighted to see industry leaders back a better path for junior engineers @GitStartHQ

bit.lyWe raised $5M to enable anyone to grow on the world’s best codebasesMillion of promising engineers struggle because they were born in the wrong country. GitStart raised $5M to build the world’s fastest career accelerator to help them access prosperity.

GitStart alleviates tech’s talent shortage while giving the world’s rising engineers and CS students a gignified new employment option. Instead of emigrating to find jobs, imagine gitting started working from wherever you are. We share GitStart’s vision that people should prosper based on performance, not place.

We’re delighted to invest alongside other tech leaders such as: Meta VP Maria Zhang, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, Robinhood VP Surabhi Gupta, former GitHub exec Omoju Miller, BloomTech CEO Austen Allred, Kepler CEO and Gigster founder Debo Olaosebikan, Circle CTO Li Fan and VP Yongsheng Wu, Andela founder Iyinola Aboyeji, and Replit CEO Amjad Masad.

Creating opportunity for junior engineers is a pillar of the Neo community. If you share our passion for CS education, diversity in tech, and betting on the next generation, join us in welcoming the GitStart team to Neo. Here’s to the road ahead.