Our goal of building an ecosystem starts with the foundation, which is knowledge.
Our project based, community centric, peer learning models, ensure that as a community, we can community stay on top of what’s new and gain the skills required to build solutions, without losing sight of the problems around us that need to be fixed.
Beyond learning, we find ways to collectively build solutions to some of the most pressing problems around us.
We do this by empathising, and taking a human centred design approach to tackle these problems using cutting edge technology to craft solutions that scale.
From our scheduled downtime weekends, to consoles and board games on site, we pride ourselves in our ability to switch off and play hard, because playing and disconnecting is an essential part of the innovation process
Molestiae non recusandae earum rerum hic tenetur asa piente delectus.
We helped Facebook Design and Pilot its revamped startup support programme FB Start. We worked hands-on with 20 startups to get their prototypes off the ground and equip them with the skills to manage their startups as they hit the acceleration phase.
A 4-month fellowship for women specially designed and administered physically and virtually by the Colab for Women community. On this programme, we upskilled 120 women in tracks including Digital Marketing, Web Design and Data Science.
As a training partner for Northwest Nigeria, We trained 1000 entrepreneurs on how to use the Facebook group of applications to grow their businesses.
We are currently implementing Project Sparrow, a $1.4 million program focused on getting startups in the agritech space investment-ready.
We worked with Afrilabs to implement a gender-inclusive virtual meetup series on Investment Readiness for over 100 people.
We worked with Ventures Platform to help deliver a 3-Month Incubation Program designed to support innovative idea-staged companies across Nigeria with funding, mentorship and training.
We designed, developed and delivered a 3-month programme for pre-startup/ideation stage businesses, to help them figure out their paths, and equip them with the necessary skills to get their businesses to ideas to prototype and beyond. We worked with 10 startups, having sorted through over a thousand that applied nationwide and four of those are still alive and cash-positive today.
We have developed and are currently administering a program to harness the innovative potential of technology firms, developers, and startups to build modern solutions to the challenges put forward by the people of Kaduna state in the hopes of helping to catalyse an inclusive digital ecosystem in Kaduna state.
