This document contains confidential information about Neolab Technology (PVT) LTD and should not be shared without their permission. Neolab is a startup factory located in Zimbabwe that aims to launch 20 startups annually focused on areas like logistics, health, e-commerce, and financial services. Its goal is to train 200 students and help push 10 products to market each year. Neolab provides startups with infrastructure and takes students through an ideation and validation process to help launch new companies and products.

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2. WHAT IS NEOLAB?
Disruptive
Ideas
Breakthrough
technology
Frugal
Entrepreneurs
Neolab sits at the nexus of Disruptive Ideas, Radical
Technology and Frugal Entrepreneurs to create enduring
companies in and around Africa. This is why it is called the
STARTUP FACTORY!
neolab

3. Logistics Health
E-commerce
Financial
services
Internet
Retail
Social
Energy
Hardware Bitcoin
Our goal is to launch 20 startups annually and push 10
products to markets by providing our startups with key
infrastructure required for Start-up Birth, growth and maturity,
focusing on the following areas.
Train 200 Students
Push 10 products
to marketLaunch 20 startups
Goals and Objectives
FOCUS AREAS

5. 0
Vast experience in building products
for 3rd world economies.
Experience working at venture capital
firms.
In-depth understanding of the African
context.
Successfully built bootstrapped start-
ups based on the lean methodology.
Experience

6. MUZINDA HACKATHON
Best educational App
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WEEK-AWARDS
Best Exhibition stand
CBZ ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CHALLENGE WINNERS-2013
STARTUP BUS AFRICA
NOVEMBER 2013
Awards
JCI CREATIVE YOUNG
ENTREPRENEURS AWARD
2013 & 2014
MOST ENTREPRISING STUDENTS
AWARD
Nominee
DEMO AFRICA
STARTUP LAUNCH
SEPTEMBER 2014
BOOST SME AWARDS
BEST EXHIBITION STAND
AUGUST 2014
SWELL INNOVATION AWARD
WINNERS
SEPTEMBER 2014
BOOST SME AWARDS
BEST STARTUP
AUGUST 2014

8. The Process
Students
Start-up Clinic
MX Project Trep-Nation
Boot Africa
Existing Start-ups
MX Operatives +
Idea = Validating
Team
Teams work on
validating Ideas
Team + Validated
Idea + MVP +
Traction= Launch!
Teams work on
scaling start-ups
Recruitment +
Training =
ModelX Operative
Students graduate
as MX Operatives

9. Neolab Start-up Roadmap
START: Get inspired,
learn the basics
GROWTH:
Scale/Sell/Go Public
IDEATE:
Customer/Problem
Fit)
Validate
(problem/solution
Fit )
Fit)
Soft Launch
(website, Demo,
Prototype)
Gain Traction:
Pivoting/Iterations
(revert to Validation
stage when pivoting)
Doing things that
don’t scale
Build MVP
(Product/Market
Secure Funding:
Angel/Venture
Capital.
Monetization: Model
refinement
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10. Sustainability Start-up Clinic
MX Project Trep-Nation
Boot Africa
Products Products
Revenue Engine
Startup Factory
Concepts that don’t scale
Iteration
Scalable version of product
Not all ideas scale, those that don’t remain as products
within Neolab generating revenue until we stumble on an
iteration that does. Yes, it also means that some students are
trained to run these transient revenue generating products
Concept + team Startup

13. Contact Us
takunda@neolab.co.zw
www.neolab.co.zw
info@neolab.co.zw
@neolabtech facebook.com/neolabtechnology
+263-73-122-2222
+263-77-285-4190
Office WB7- Admin Building
National University of Science and
Technology- Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
plus.google.com/+NeolabCoZw