3
Li Lithium
6.941
27
Co Cobalt
58.933
29
Cu Copper
63.546
28
Ni Nickel
58.693
25
Mn Manganese
54.938
79
Au Gold
196.97
22
Ti Titanium
47.867
32
Ge Germanium
72.630
51
Sb Antimony
121.76
50
Sn Tin
118.71
73
Ta Tantalum
180.94
74
W Tungsten
183.84
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WE BUILD COMPANIES FROM SCRATCH
We are a venture studio building impactful innovations, sustainable businesses and game-changing companies in frontier economies.
We aim to transform bold ideas into enduring businesses that drive meaningful change, help people flourish and disadvantaged communities thrive.
SOMETHING SPECIAL IS COMING SOON
Transforming Africa from a simple supplier of raw materials and critical minerals into an integrated player in global value chains.


The prosperity science
CRITICAL MINERALS, CRITICAL TIMES
Redefining Global Value Through Local Resources
From the steel skeletons of rising cities to the copper wires that carry power and information, the modern world is built on mined minerals.
We rely on these minerals every day—they’re in the cars we drive, the cell phones we keep in our pockets, the computers we work on, and the medical devices that save lives. They’re embedded in the memory chips powering AI, the drones used in modern defense systems, the wind grids generating clean electricity, the airplanes that shrink our world, the tractors that plant our food, and the roads that connect communities and economies.
Minerals fuel the batteries behind clean energy, form the circuits of innovation, and quite literally ground the infrastructure of the future.
Critical minerals are not just raw materials—they are the building blocks of civilization and the backbone of today’s global economy. Without them, progress halts. As global demand surges, so does our responsibility to rethink how we extract, process, and add value with sustainability, equity, fairness, and innovation at the core.
- Reimagining Africa’s mining value chain, from upstream to downstream
- Unlocking access to clean energy, from upstream to downstream
- Securing sustainable critical minerals, from upstream to downstream
- Innovating the mining supply chain, from upstream to downstream
- Driving economic development, from upstream to downstream
- Creating shared prosperity, from upstream to downstream


We believe solving complex real-world problems begins with capturing, analyzing and utilizing the right data. Our venture studio model coupled with our ingrained data culture enables us to combine design thinking and data science to empower our interdisciplinary team to make creative, smarter, more informed business decisions grounded in facts to produce innovative outcomes.

In this third decade of the third millennium, the world continues to rapidly change. There are countless real-life problems left to be solved in our communities, new industries to be created, and many more world-changing companies yet to be started. At Minzotolab, we are motivated by a purpose far more significant; to develop transformative solutions for those in less fortunate parts of the world.

Muntu is at the center and heart of everything we do. In the Bantu philosophy, the word Muntu is usually translated as “human being” and Ntu is the foundation of African culture. To be Muntu is to be part of a community. Our paths, histories, and economic circumstances may be different, but the biggest challenges of our time are global in nature. At Minzotolab, one of the defining elements of our humanity is…