Nurturing success through networks.

The people, partners and programmes behind Botswana’s innovation agency.

About Nest Hubs

We are the local anchor for Botswana's innovation. A nest where ministries, hubs, founders and global partners meet, build and grow together.

The problem we solve

Good plans lose momentum between missions.

Botswana has the ambition, the talent and the partners. What is often missing is the thread that holds them together day to day.

Ambition

Talent

Partners

Nest Hubs holds the thread

Momentum between missions

01Fragmented actorsMinistries, hubs, universities, funders and founders work in parallel, rarely in rhythm.

02Momentum gapsInternational programmes fly in and out. Follow-through stalls between visits.

03Implementation gapsBotswana has strong policies but poor implementation.

Our response We bring the execution and integration capability to achieve performance and growth through connected and open industry players.

Our mission

To nurture success through networks, connecting Botswana's innovators, institutions and international partners, and turning shared plans into delivered, measurable outcomes.

Our vision

A Botswana where innovation is owned locally, inclusive by design, and a true driver of the knowledge-based economy set out in Vision 2036.

Our values

What holds the nest together.

Five commitments that shape every programme, partnership and report.

Value 01RootedLocal first. We live and work where the impact happens.

Value 02ConnectedWe build bridges between people and institutions, not silos.

Value 03InclusiveWomen and youth at the centre, measured honestly.

Value 04AccountableTransparent reporting, every month, to every partner.

Value 05NurturingWe grow people and ideas until they are ready to fly on their own.

Our story

Two founders, one nest.

Nest Hubs grew from a belief Yandile Nuku and Tebogo “Tebby” Modisagape share: people grow fastest inside the right network. Yandile lived it as a young founder; Tebby, founder of Val Interiors since 2009, brings the business experience every founder in the nest can draw on.

Yandile Nuku leading proceedings at the Botswana–South Africa Bi-National Commission

Yandile Nuku presenting at the LEA Entrepreneurship and SMME Development Symposium

Yandile Nuku moderating a panel at the Forbes Under 30 Summit Africa

Yandile Nuku addressing the Bi-National Commission plenary

Yandile Nuku on a Sustainable Development Goals panel

Yandile Nuku moderating a panel at Global Expo Botswana 2022

Yandile Nuku at the podium during the Bi-National Commission

Yandile came in with skills in communications, finance and accounting, and a deep sense of how Botswana's economy works, but few places to put them to use. Nest Hubs matched her with mentors, markets and responsibility, and stayed with her through the setbacks as well as the wins.

She now helps build the innovation agency’s foundation alongside Tebby’s two decades of entrepreneurship experience as an ecosystem builder who believes in collaboration and networks.

“With the value of listening at its heart, the hub shapes itself around your best form of self-expression.”
Yandile Nuku, Co-founder

Credentials

MSc in Entrepreneurship and InnovationBA (Hon) in Accounting and Finance

Tebby in a Val Interiors bathroom showroom

Tebby founded Val Interiors in 2009 and built it the hard way. Looking back, she realised she could have grown faster with the right support, mentorship and networks at an earlier stage.

Nest Hubs is the spin-out from that journey: the network she wished she had, now open to the next generation of founders.

Entrepreneur, ecosystem builder and co-founder of Nest Hubs.

Founder, Val Interiors · Since 2009

Credentials

BA Interior ArchitectureUN SSE Academy

Projects Work with Nest Hubs.

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