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History

Codementor was founded in 2013 by Weiting Liu. Codementor received the initial funding from

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’s venture capital firm TMI and participated in the Techstars accelerator program in

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in 2013. It was officially launched in 2014. In 2015, Codementor announced the launch of Live Group classes. That same year, the company also announced a partnership with online learning platform

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. Codementor was one of the startups chosen by the Taiwanese Government to represent Taiwan in the 2016

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Disrupt

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in San Francisco. In March 2016, Codementor announced a partnership with Africa-based startup

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

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, Codementor launched an initiative designed to match coders with software projects in the fight against the virus.

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