Testimonials from our Fellows

Founders often compete with each other for the same funding pool. Instead of competition, I felt a sense of empathy and belonging in my group. Interacting with founders across cultures brought a real army to the experience.
— Sophie Smallwood - Roleshare
I’m the kind of person who learns by sharing and working with others and this is a group of very inspirational leaders..to hear their stories and things they’re struggling with, and to make a contribution to that in some small way is extremely impactful for my job, and hopefully meaningful to others as well.
— Mike Swift - Major League Hacking
I am proud to say that I truly discovered fundamentally new ways of ‘entry and impact’ and can intuitively sense that I’m approaching conversations and decisions around key topics very differently.
— Mehemed Bougsea - ThinkIT
It is rare as a founder to have a group of people who are all working on similar missions. Further, it’s great to have presided time every month not to think about your to-do list, but to listen to other people who have a slightly different perspective to solving a problem.
— Katie Nielson - EnGen
eLab combines experts in their fields talking about the challenges they face with access to group therapy to collectively work on your problems. The former gave me a frame to approach the problems I am facing and the latter gave me tactical advice to apply in my own specific situation.
— Carlos Lau - Kurios
My eLab peers are one of the most valuable aspects of the fellowship. I am already implementing things I learnt from the group sessions.
— Yiorgos Nikoletakis - 100mentors
My co-founder and I woke up at 5am in South Korea to attend the weekly sessions. Asa founder of an early stage company, it was great to interact with other founders who were further along in their journey working on the same thesis.
— Chelsea Jeon - Immigo
eLab changed the way I see the e-learning world because I was able to listen to the visions of the biggest actors in the ecosystem. I took away massive learnings on leadership and culture to apply to my team and company overall.
— Santiago Salazar Monsalve - hackÜ