Harmony Venture Labs
We Build.
We Build Builders.
HVL is home to ambitious innovators building a new generation of game-changing startups. We believe when the right people partner, knowledge is shared and communities collide, the next great company is inevitable.
Building New Ventures
We co-build and co-invest in new companies alongside corporate partners. Every venture starts as a real problem worth solving.
See what's in the lab →Sharing the Playbook
We teach founders to build startups from scratch and help corporates and PE firms adopt AI — closing the knowledge gap at every stage.
Visit Education →Investing in Community
Venture Yards is Birmingham's home for founders and ambitious teams ready to move from idea to company.
Book the space →Turning Problems into Portfolio Companies
From internal ideation to co-built ventures with corporate partners. Every company in our portfolio started as a problem worth solving.
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Insights to Scalable Ventures
A structured path from raw opportunity to launched company. Every stage builds on the last.
Discovery
We map what your organization actually knows. The domain expertise, the frustrated customers, the processes nobody has optimized. Most ventures fail because they started with a solution rather than a problem worth solving. We make sure you start with the right question.
Test + Sprint
Before capital goes in, we run focused sprints to stress-test the top opportunities. Real customers, real feedback. Not surveys, not assumptions. We find out quickly what holds up and what falls apart.
Design + Decide
If the signal is real, we build the venture thesis: how the company makes money, who it serves, what it takes to win. Then we decide whether to build. No ambiguity, no prolonged debate — a clear answer, either way.
Build + Launch
We execute. Product, team, go-to-market — all coordinated from one place. HVL stays active through launch and into early traction. You don't hand off to someone else. We're in it with you.
Discovery
We map what your organization actually knows. The domain expertise, the frustrated customers, the processes nobody has optimized. Most ventures fail because they started with a solution rather than a problem worth solving. We make sure you start with the right question.
Test + Sprint
Before capital goes in, we run focused sprints to stress-test the top opportunities. Real customers, real feedback. Not surveys, not assumptions. We find out quickly what holds up and what falls apart.
Design + Decide
If the signal is real, we build the venture thesis: how the company makes money, who it serves, what it takes to win. Then we decide whether to build. No ambiguity, no prolonged debate — a clear answer, either way.
Build + Launch
We execute. Product, team, go-to-market — all coordinated from one place. HVL stays active through launch and into early traction. You don't hand off to someone else. We're in it with you.
Where Founders Learn to Launch
AppThink is our entrepreneurship education program — built for incubators, accelerators, and educational institutions. Participants learn by doing, from problem identification to building a prototype.
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From Zero to Exit — Now Applied at Scale
HVL's founder, Shegun Otulana, built and exited one of the Southeast's largest software companies — without a roadmap, deep pockets or a tech hub as a backdrop.
His experience shaped our venture creation playbook.
We don't theorize. We test, build, and launch.
And we're applying that same rigor to help you create the next high-growth venture — right where you are.
Innovation is often stifled, not by lack of ideas, but by lack of venture frameworks to expose and harness big opportunities hidden in plain sight.
HVL is helping to change that.
We're coming alongside innovative-minded companies, institutions and community change-makers to build companies the world can't ignore. Greatness can come from anywhere, with the right infrastructure, team, and belief behind it.