The Lab · project showcase

What students
actually build.

Real capstones from FinLit fellows. Ventures they scoped, products they designed, and portfolios they built and defended live in front of a mentor. Open any project and read the student's own work.

Project showcase

Every project, built by a student.

/ Venture
Venture / Legal tech

TeenVenture: compliance for teen founders.

A legal compliance platform built for teenage entrepreneurs: understand your obligations, protect the venture, and check your own compliance status before problems arise.

S. Koyande View project
/ Venture
Venture / Sustainability

Last Mile: rooftops into farms.

Turns unused urban rooftops into productive community gardens for apartments, schools and offices. Assess, design, install, maintain. Revenue from installs, maintenance subscriptions, produce sales and CSR partnerships.

V. Kandru View project
/ Portfolio
Portfolio / Growth

$10,000 aggressive growth.

Seven high-conviction holdings, 90% equities, ~15.5% target annual growth. Each pick backed by financial research and a PEG-ratio price check, plus the biases that could derail it.

/ Portfolio
Portfolio / Global

The Investment Project: across continents.

A portfolio built for a busy university student: diversified across sectors and across national markets, with a moderate allocation that keeps a safe share in bonds for stability.

L. Wong Alvino da Costa View project
/ Product
Product / Healthcare

HomeWell Health: care that comes to you.

An app for booking medical services from home, built around the reality that long hours and long travel distances make regular doctor visits hard, especially outside cities.

N. Chaudhary View project
/ Portfolio
Portfolio / Persona

The Homer Simpson portfolio.

Portfolio construction taught through a persona. Every allocation decision grounded in one character's habits, lifestyle and risk appetite instead of abstract theory.

A. Falcioni View project
How projects are graded

Mentors grade your
judgment, not the AI.

Every project ships with an AI Workbook. Mentors look hardest at what you rejected. That's where the thinking lives.

i.
Judgment
Did you improve, edit, or override what AI gave you?
ii.
Rigour
Are your numbers correct, sourced, and stress-tested?
iii.
Clarity
Could a non-expert parent understand the pitch?
iv.
Honesty
Are the limits and risks of your plan stated plainly?

Want to build one of these?

Eight Saturdays. The first cohort to learn money this way. Read the week-by-week curriculum before you apply.