Zuckerberg announced Charitable Fund's first investment: helping African people programming Zuckerberg, Africa-IT information

Beijing morning news on June 17, charitable organization founded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been the first significant investment, lead investor a venture financing round, the startup's primary business is in Africa, training and recruiting developers.

This startup called Andela said on Thursday that Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla (Priscilla Chan) Chan Zuckerberg founded charity Initiative LLC lead investor of the company's $ 24 million series b financing round. Google venture firms owned by parent company Alphabet GV also participated in the financing round.

Andela in African select top technology talent and training, then placed into the engineering organization. The startup is now in its Nigeria and Kenya offices of nearly 200 engineers, will use the funds from these financing rounds before the end of the business itself to three African countries.

Zuckerberg said in a statement: "we live in a world where talent is evenly distributed, but chances are this is not the case. Andela's mission is to fill this gap. ”

When Zuckerberg founded the charity at the end of 2015, and he said it would take 99% of Facebook stock is held by it. The Organization was registered as a limited liability company, which means that unlike traditional charitable organizations or foundations, which is, this organization can contribute political donations, lobbying members of Congress, commercial business and profits from these investments.

扎克伯格慈善基金首笔投资揭晓：帮助非洲人搞编程 - 扎克伯格,非洲 - IT资讯

北京时间6月17日早间消息，Facebook创始人马克·扎克伯格创办的慈善组织已进行了第一笔重大投资，领投了一家创业公司的融资回合，这家创业公司的主要业务是在非洲地区培训和招募软件开发者。

这家名为Andela的创业公司周四称，由扎克伯格及其妻子普莉希拉·陈（Priscilla Chan）创办的慈善机构Chan Zuckerberg Initiative LLC领投了该公司2400万美元的B系列融资回合。谷歌母公司Alphabet旗下风投公司GV也参与了这个融资回合。

Andela在非洲地区选择顶尖科技人才并对其进行培训，然后安置到工程组织去去。这家创业公司目前在旗下尼日利亚和肯尼亚办事处聘用着近200名工程师，将利用来自上述融资回合的资金在年底以前将自身业务拓展到第三个非洲国家。

扎克伯格发表声明称：“在我们所生活的世界里，人才的分布是均匀的，但机会则并非如此。Andela的使命就是要填补这种差距。”

当扎克伯格在2015年底创办这个慈善组织时，他称其将把所持99%的Facebook股票都投入其中。该组织是以有限责任公司的形式注册的，这就意味着与传统慈善组织或基金不同的是，这个组织可捐献政治献金、游说国会议员、投资商业业务并从这些投资中获利。