Tech Without Borders
We Are Kusudi is a social venture connecting Kenyan software engineers to global opportunities.
This is the true future of work: an inclusive global workforce that thrives on diversity, innovation, and equal opportunities for all.
UK businesses are struggling to recruit technical talent.
Kenyans are struggling to find jobs.
We Are Kusudi solves both problems whilst:
Changing Lives
By paying candidates a beyond market leading salary.
Helping Businesses
By saving them 60% of the cost to hire in the UK, and giving you your time to hire back.
Boosting economies
In both Kenya and Britain.
This isn’t outsourcing; this is a curated matching process bringing you the best remote talent from emerging markets.
The Kusudi Way
Source
We find the brightest candidates with 1+ years of development experience. Candidates go through a rigorous interview and assessment process.
Connect
Upon graduating from our programme, the cohort are put forward to a selection of tech companies, interviewed, and matched.
Refine
Those who are successful are provided with training alongside starting their new role, where we coach them across all aspects of startup life and business professionalism.
Nurture
Throughout their time as a team member, we offer ongoing peer-to peer, cohort based support and membership.
“95% of UK companies are experiencing a shortage of technical skills”
For Companies
Two of the most valuable currencies for startups are time and money. By saving entrepreneurs on both counts, founders can bring their dreams to life without such high barriers to market.
We also know that diverse teams win. They are more creative and more innovative, they make better decisions, and they outperform less diverse peers when measured on profitability.
By lowering costs, giving them back time, and creating more diverse teams, our goal is to impact the micro and macro economies in the UK, for instance when these companies go on to create jobs, or to improve the lives of many with the services they provide.
“After climate change, Africa’s jobs crisis will be a defining challenge of our era”
For Candidates
Up to one million Africans are entering the job market every month, yet fewer than one in four get a formal job.
We Are Kusudi exists to tackle this jobs crisis. And to make sure the response is innovative, empowering and ethical.
For too long, emerging markets have been viewed as a source of cheap, second rate, labourers, who are treated as second class citizens. This must be recognised as exploitation, and must be changed.
We have worked alongside countless Kenyans who are highly educated, extremely motivated, eternal learners. Yet true high quality career opportunities in the market, that offer autonomy, career progression, high wages, work-life balance, are only available to a tiny percentage of the candidate pool.
We Are Kusudi exists to broaden these horizons.
