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July 29, 2025 21 mins

What if your high school project didn’t just end with graduation? 
In this episode of The Young Collaborators Podcast Series, we meet Kofi Hair-Ralston (16) - a visionary teen founder on a mission to make student-led impact sustainable and scalable.

Kofi is the Founder of VenturEd Global, which has connected 320+ underrepresented students to global tech opportunities and a Founding Partner at EGG Labs, an incubator powering 20+ student ventures.

This discussion dives into how real infrastructure, mentorship and mission-driven leadership can transform youth projects into movements that last, even after the founders move on.

This is a must-listen for anyone passionate about the future of youth entrepreneurship, equity in tech and building systems that outlast individuals.

🎧 Tune in to hear how one young changemaker is rewriting the rules of what students can build.

Reach out to Kofi:

kofibhairralston@gmail.com
https://linkedin.com/in/kofihairralston
https://venturedglobal.org/
https://egglabs.org/

More about our host: Neha Sarda is a 18-year-old from Mumbai, India with big dreams of becoming a CEO in the legal tech, biotech and fashion industries. Passionate about finance and obsessed with innovation, she builds business models and prototypes just for fun. Neha is the Senior Portfolio Manager at BYCIG, where she leads a 53-member investment analyst team and has previously co-founded two marketing agencies and a startup incubator. A natural on stage and a podcast host, she lives by the belief that curiosity isn't a phase, it's her strategy for changing the world.

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