• Ugandan entrepreneur leads Kolaborate, a platform linking African talent to global firms.
• The start-up offers training, verified profiles, and BPO services powered by AI.
• Kolaborate helps professionals access higher-paying remote digital work.

Pearl D. Gakazi is a Ugandan tech entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Kolaborate, a start-up created to connect African talent with global digital job markets.

Founded in 2022, Kolaborate builds a direct bridge between companies around the world and African professionals specialized in tech, data, design, digital marketing, and content creation. The platform enables companies to assemble tailor-made remote teams using verified and supported profiles tailored to specific needs, whether developing a product, managing data, or running daily digital operations.

For talent, Kolaborate goes beyond matchmaking. The start-up has created an academy and training pathways designed to align local skills with international standards, especially in high-demand digital careers. Trained professionals then gain access to remote missions and jobs that offer higher pay than most local opportunities, while allowing them to remain in their home countries.

For companies, Kolaborate provides a service model that combines flexibility, operational quality, and cost efficiency. In addition to its talent network, the start-up develops business process outsourcing (BPO) services focused on data management and digital operations, allowing client organizations to delegate selected tasks while maintaining strong oversight. The platform uses artificial intelligence tools to refine matching, speed up recruitment, and secure collaboration.

Alongside her responsibilities at Kolaborate, Pearl D. Gakazi is also business development manager at Prism Marketing Ltd, a Ugandan agency specializing in marketing and sales.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Makerere University, obtained in 2013, and a master’s degree in business, management, marketing, and related support services from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, earned in 2016.

Gakazi began her career in 2010 as a wholesale sales supervisor at Fresh Cuts Uganda, a meat processing company. In 2013, she became a franchise business consultant at RE/MAX Uganda, a real estate company. In 2017, she joined the business development department of Yetu Credit Finance, active in microfinance. Between 2020 and 2023, she worked as a business adviser at Money Market Gurus, a financial firm.

Melchior Koba