TalentQL secures $300k pre-seed round led by investment firm, Zedcrest Capital

TalentQL announced that it has raised $300,000 in a pre-seed round led by Nigerian investment firm, Zedcrest Capital and accompanied by angel investors – Venture Platform’s Kola Aina and former Andela Executive, Prosper Otemuyiwa.

Launched a week ago, TalentQL — Talent Quiet Location — seeks to build a pipeline of quality talents for African companies and hire, develop, and manage remote talent for global companies. It was founded by Founded by Adewale Yusuf, co-founder of Techpoint Africa; Opeyemi Awoyemi, co-founder of Jobberman; and Akintunde Sultan, co-founder of DevCareer.

TalentQL’s value proposition to companies is spread across three offerings:

• Hire and manage the best engineering talent for foreign companies;
• Create a talent pipeline for interested local companies and
• Access to TalentQL’s workspace with the option of the clients providing accommodation for the developers

Speaking on the deal, the CEO Adewale Yusuf, said;

“This pre-seed funding allows us to kickstart this mission and we are convinced that what we are doing at TalentQL will change the African talent landscape. We believe that talent is Africa’s greatest export and as such needs to be developed and refined.

“We are grateful to the investors betting on us for the journey, our lead investor Zedcrest Capital and some of the known entrepreneurs and investors like Kola Aina, Prosper Otemuyiwa.”

Adedayo Amzat, CEO of Zedcrest Capital said; “African talents are undoubtedly competing favourably globally, and TalentQL’s work will expand the available talent pool to improve further Africa’s representation in the global technology talent space.

It is a no brainer to be betting on the TalentQL team. They are entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses, and we have no doubt they will replicate the same success here.”