A design and technology studio from Luanda

Velship Labs turns ideas into useful digital solutions for businesses, enterprises and government institutions, in Angola and beyond.

Fortaleza de São Miguel, Luanda

The studio

Velship Labs is a design and technology studio in Luanda, Angola, with an international outlook. We turn ideas into useful digital solutions.

You talk to the leads, who coordinate design, engineering and delivery. AI supports our production and iteration; experienced people direct and review the work, and remain responsible for what we deliver.

Client services and products of our own are both core to the studio. Client work shows us problems worth solving, and what we learn informs what we build, while client commitments, confidential information and agreed ownership stay separate.

Why we started

The Velship Labs team

Value first. Everything else follows.

We started Velship Labs on a simple belief: value should be added, not extracted. When our work makes a business stronger, the reward follows, and so does something bigger: better lives for the people who work in it, buy from it and depend on it. That is what we are building toward, one business in Luanda at a time.

What we value

  • 01

    Value Creation

    We add value before we ask for anything in return.

  • 02

    Integrity & Accountability

    We do what we say, we say it plainly, and we own the outcome, including when something goes wrong.

  • 03

    Collaboration

    We work with clients as one team, and across design, engineering and delivery.

  • 04

    Technical Excellence

    We review, test and document our work to a standard we are proud to hand over.

  • 05

    Innovation

    We look for better ways to solve problems, and test them before clients rely on them.

  • 06

    Respect

    For clients, for each other, and for the people who will use what we build.

Technical leadership

José Nogueira, our CTO, leads the technical side: product development, delivery and the standards behind both.

Meet the team

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