Helping student founders find their team

Designing a networking platform that helps university students across the UK connect with potential co-founders and find collaborators with complementary skills.

The Collabor8 landing page on a laptop standing on a wooden desk: the headline Find Your Co-Founder, Build What's Next, over a blue horizon with five student profiles and their match percentages.
Industry
Networking & Community
Project
Collaborate Website
Year
2026
  • Web Design
  • UI/UX Design
  • Brand Identity
  • Panel Design

Overview

The Collabor8 event page on a tablet with a stylus resting above it: an AI Founder and Builder Night at Imperial College London, with its date, location, host and what to expect.

Target Users

University Students

Ambitious students who want to meet like-minded people, expand their network, discover relevant events, and find opportunities to collaborate on projects or startup ideas.

Pain Points:

  • Limited opportunities to connect with like-minded students outside their existing university or social circle.
  • Difficulty finding people with complementary skills for projects, startups, or collaborations.

Co-founders & Founders

People who are building or planning to build a startup and are looking for potential co-founders, collaborators, or talented individuals with complementary skills and shared ambitions.

Pain Points:

  • Finding the right co-founder or early collaborator is time-consuming and highly dependent on personal networks.
  • Difficult to evaluate whether someone’s skills, interests, and goals are genuinely compatible.

Find the People Who Move Ideas Forward

Discover ambitious students, connect around shared goals, and find the right people to build with.

Build Meaningful Connections

Connect with ambitious people from leading universities and turn shared interests into projects and startups.

A Collabor8 profile: Joshua Grant, Computer Science at UCL, open to collaboration, with his about text, experience and skills.

Together, You Could Build

Making student finances simpler.

  • Product + Engineering
  • Shared Fintech Interest
  • Aligned Goals
The match radar: the Collabor8 mark at the centre of three rings, with five students placed on them by how closely they match.

Discover the Right People

Find students and professionals who match your interests, skills, goals, and collaboration needs.

User Flow

The Collabor8 user flow, from joining the platform and building a profile to discovering relevant people, exploring events, and sending collaboration requests.

A stretch of the Collabor8 landing page: four feature cards under the heading Everything You Need to Find the Right People, then a section titled Find the Skills Your Idea Is Missing, pairing two students and naming what they could build together.
A tablet on a ribbed dark surface showing the Collabor8 events list, a row of upcoming founder nights and workshops.
A tablet showing a Collabor8 member profile, with a match score ring beside the member's details and a collaborate button.
A tablet on a dark stone surface showing the Collabor8 network page, a grid of student cards each with a view profile and a collaborate button.
A tablet standing on a fluted pedestal showing a Collabor8 event page, the AI Founder and Builder Night.
The Collabor8 mark, C8.
The Collabor8 events page on a laptop, seen head on against black, reflected in the surface it stands on.

Colors

Brand Colors

  • Primary / #326FE4

  • Secondary / #FFFFFF

Typography

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Want this for your product?

Collabor8 had to make finding a co-founder feel possible for a student with an idea and no network. Tell us what you are building.

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  • 30 minutes. No pitch. We'll tell you if it's not a fit.
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