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WE ARE

THINKERS

WE ARE

THINKERS

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 to a continent integrated into global value chains.

  • 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

Context
matters

“Innovation doesn’t just mean high-tech or feature-rich products. It refers to something rather specific: A change in the processes by which an organization transforms labor, capital, materials, and information into products and services of greater value.”

– Clay Christensen

Context matters
“Innovation doesn’t just mean high-tech or feature-rich products. It refers to something rather specific: A change in the processes by which an organization transforms labor, capital, materials, and information into products and services of greater value.”

– Clay Christensen

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…