What The Chaincademy does

The Chaincademy is a UK-based, privately held technology company founded in 2023 and headquartered in London that operates a dual-sided developer talent platform. On the demand side, individual developers access AI-powered skills assessment, personalized career roadmaps, hackathon competitions (Chainckathon), and verified skills credentials. On the supply side, startups, scale-ups, and enterprises subscribe to a B2B SaaS vetting platform designed to score the authenticity and technical skills of engineers, QAs, and DevOps professionals. Two co-founders run the company: Rafaela Azevedo as Founder & CEO and Nelson Costa as CTO and Co-founder. Headcount is reported as 1-10 employees, and the company's website domain (thechaincademy.com) lists English and Portuguese language support, suggesting cross-Atlantic ambitions.

The underlying technology is an AI-driven talent cross-checking engine that ingests and correlates signals from GitHub repositories, LinkedIn profiles, CVs, and live coding assessments to generate proprietary authenticity scores. The engine applies NLP for resume and profile analysis, code analysis for repository evaluation, and a predictive scoring algorithm that weights verified code contributions more heavily than self-reported claims. Product surface includes the Vetting Platform (B2B SaaS), the Career Accelerator (freemium individual product), the Skills Repository, the Chainckathon hackathon series, a Job Matching feature, and a Trust-First Recruiting service. MVP Development is offered as a professional services engagement, primarily through a referral partner programme with a 10% cash or discount incentive.

The business model layers multiple revenue streams: a freemium consumer funnel (free skills assessment, premium for accelerated features and AI tools mastery), B2B SaaS subscriptions for the vetting platform (pricing not publicly disclosed), transaction or fixed fees from organizing Chainckathon events for partner companies, professional services revenue from MVP Development, and affiliate-style referral payouts. Distribution runs through a self-serve web platform (thechaincademy.com and jobs.thechaincademy.com), direct enterprise sales targeting CTOs and hiring managers, community channels including a Telegram developer community, and the referral partner network. Public commercial data points include a developer base of more than 700 users, 500+ skills tracked on the platform, approximately 56+ new developers joining per month, a reported 340% career growth improvement figure, and a self-reported 95% hiring accuracy rate, with 10 named startup clients visible on the website. Strategic partners include Innovate UK, NoLimits, and unnamed referral partners; the company was a finalist for Education and Training Provider of the Year at the 2025 West London Business Awards and received an honourable mention at the SeedLegals Startup Awards.

Name

The Chaincademy

Legal name

The Chaincademy

Website

https://thechaincademy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Chaincademy is a UK-based dual-sided developer talent platform offering an AI-powered career accelerator for individual developers and a B2B SaaS vetting platform that scores engineer authenticity and skills using GitHub, LinkedIn, and live coding signals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Career Development Platform: AI-powered skills assessment and personalised career roadmaps for developers. Free tier available with premium features for accelerated career growth, hackathon participation, and AI tools mastery.
2. Vetting & Talent Pool SaaS: B2B SaaS platform that scores authenticity and skills for engineers, QAs and DevOps. Companies pay for candidate verification reports, authenticity scoring, and pre-vetted talent pool access.
3. MVP Development Services: End-to-end product development for startups and scale-ups, referred through partnership programme or direct enterprise engagement.
4. Hackathon Services: Industry-led hackathons for innovation and recruitment. Monthly events for developers with prizes and recognition, plus services for companies wanting to organize their own Chainckathon events.
5. Referral Partnership Programme: Partners can refer clients for MVP Development, Vetting & Talent Pool, Career Development Platform, or Hackathon services. Rewards include 10% discount on next project or 10% cash reward from referred project value.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Chaincademy operates a dual-sided platform comprising a B2B SaaS Vetting Platform that uses an AI-driven cross-checking engine to score authenticity and technical skills of engineers, QAs, and DevOps professionals, and a B2C Career Accelerator that provides AI-powered skills assessment and personalized career roadmaps for individual developers. The company also runs Chainckathon hackathon events and offers MVP development services to startups and scale-ups through its referral partner programme.

Product overview

The Chaincademy offers a dual-sided tech talent platform comprising a SaaS Vetting Platform for businesses to verify engineer authenticity and skills, and a Career Accelerator for developers to assess skills and follow AI-powered personalized roadmaps. The ecosystem includes Chainckathon hackathons for hands-on experience, a Skills Repository for gap analysis, Job Matching for verified candidates, and an educational Developer Blog. The company also offers MVP Development and Vetting & Talent Pool services through a referral programme.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Vetting Platform SaaS platform that scores authenticity and technical skills for engineers, QAs, and DevOps using an AI-driven talent cross-checking engine that ingests signals from GitHub, LinkedIn, CVs, and live coding performance. Designed for companies seeking to hire verified engineers with reduced hiring bias.
• Career Accelerator AI-powered career development platform offering skills assessment, personalized learning roadmaps, and portfolio-building through real-world projects and hackathons for individual developers.
• Chainckathon Monthly hackathon events offering real-world project competitions, prizes, and opportunities to build portfolio with meaningful open-source contributions for developers. Companies can also engage The Chaincademy to organize custom hackathon events for recruitment.
• MVP Development End-to-end product development service for startups and scale-ups offered through the referral partnership programme, delivering working minimum viable products for early-stage companies.
• Vetting & Talent Pool Pre-vetted engineering talent pool with authenticity-scored candidates ready for team placement, offered through the referral partnership programme.

Quantifiable outcome

• 340% career growth improvement for platform users
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Innovate UKcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInnovate UK partnership supporting The Chaincademy's innovation and R&D initiatives. Innovate UK is the UK's national innovation agency helping businesses develop new products, services, and processes.
• NoLimitsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNoLimits partnership for startup ecosystem support and innovation initiatives.
• Referral PartnersminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartners in the referral programme who refer clients for MVP Development, Vetting & Talent Pool, Career Development Platform, or Hackathon services. Partners receive 10% discount on next project or 10% cash reward.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Codility: Codility provides pre-employment coding assessments and candidate ranking tools used by enterprise engineering teams, directly comparable to Chaincademy's authenticity-scored vetting reports and SaaS subscription model for hiring teams.
• DevSkiller: DevSkiller combines skill-testing software with talent assessment for tech hiring, focusing on real-world code review and project-based evaluation. Its emphasis on code authorship signals and skill verification closely mirrors Chaincademy's approach.
• TestGorilla: TestGorilla offers pre-hire talent assessment software spanning coding, cognitive, and behavioural tests. Its multi-signal scoring and emphasis on reducing hiring bias map directly onto Chaincademy's authenticity and fit scoring for tech hires.
• Qualified.io: Qualified.io is a developer assessment platform offering take-home coding tests and analytics for hiring teams. It competes in the same enterprise vetting segment with a similar subscription-driven SaaS GTM model.
• HackerRank: HackerRank is the dominant developer skills-assessment SaaS, offering coding tests, skill benchmarking, and enterprise hiring pipelines that directly overlap with Chaincademy's vetting platform and career-side skill measurement. It competes for the same enterprise B2B budget and same developer audience.
• CoderPad: CoderPad provides live collaborative coding interview environments and take-home assessments, overlapping with Chaincademy's 'live coding performance' signal ingestion and candidate report dashboard for hiring teams.

Emerging players

• CodinGame: CodinGame gamifies developer skill evaluation and hosts a community of competitive programmers used by enterprise recruiters. The platform's gamified assessments and skill-benchmarking overlap Chaincademy's career-side skills tracking and employer visibility.

Broad incumbents

• Toptal: Toptal is a curated network of vetted freelance developers with rigorous screening pipelines that overlap Chaincademy's authenticity verification and pre-vetted talent pool. It is a much larger incumbent in the same enterprise freelance-hiring segment.
• HireVue: HireVue offers enterprise-scale pre-hire assessments spanning video interview AI, coding tests, and behavioural analysis. Its broader HR-tech portfolio and enterprise procurement footprint make it a comparable incumbent expanding into developer vetting.
• Turing: Turing runs a vetted remote-engineer marketplace with extensive AI-driven matching, operating at much larger scale than Chaincademy's Vetting & Talent Pool. It competes for the same enterprise hiring budget and pre-vetted developer marketplace use case.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thechaincademy
• GitHubgithub.com/thechaincademy
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/thechaincademy
• Facebookfacebook.com/thechaincademy

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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