Codementor

Codementor is an online platform that connects coders with mentors and clients for projects on a freelance basis. The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan, and San Francisco, California.

History
Codementor was founded in 2013 by Weiting Liu.

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. It was officially launched in 2014.

In 2015, Codementor launched Live Group classes and partnered with online learning platform Udemy.

Codementor was one of the startups chosen by the Taiwanese Government to represent Taiwan in the 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in San Francisco. In March 2016, Codementor partnered with Africa-based startup Andela.

In 2016, Codementor raised $1.6 million in a seed funding round.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Codementor launched an initiative designed to match coders with software projects in the fight against the virus.