Heels and Tech
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Heels & Tech is a community-driven platform offering cohort-based, no-code training that helps women transition into tech careers. It targets women, including mothers, seeking career changes and provides instruction in in-demand no-code skills.
Also known as Heels & Tech · Heels and Tech
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Heels and Tech (also written Heels & Tech) is a women-focused edtech and community platform that helps women move into technology careers without learning to code. It runs cohort-based, instructor-led online training in no-code and adjacent technical disciplines, including business analysis, Salesforce CRM, product management, UI/UX, digital marketing and personal branding for immigrants, alongside non-technical skills such as project management, communication and problem-solving. The company segments its audience into groups including fresh graduates, stay-at-home mothers returning to work, immigrants, corporate professionals and aspiring founders.
Beyond courses, the platform operates a job board and talent liquidity platform connecting women to global vacancies, a financing arm (referred to as HT Pay) offering loans, scholarships and payment plans for education, and an incubator programme for women building ventures. Community programming includes in-person linkups, FemNest events, a 30 Days AI Challenge and partnership programmes with organisations such as Leadway, Olaniwun Ajayi LP and Zoho. The founder also authored a fictional book for African teenagers, "Jasmine Discovers Tech", distributed across five Nigerian states as well as Ghana and South Africa.
The Sun Nigeria describes Heels and Tech as a brand under The Learning Core Company.
Founding story
Heels and Tech was founded by Bisola (Bisola Alabi), who previously worked in technology roles including as a consultant at Oracle and in African startups before running a fashion business and spending about three years as a stay-at-home mother. While pregnant with her second child in 2020 and transitioning back into tech, she observed families losing income to rapid digitisation during the pandemic and encountered women who had lost careers or struggled to keep up with fast-paced self-paced online courses. After writing blog posts about transitioning into tech and running free webinars, she found sustained demand from teachers, housewives, customer service representatives and bankers seeking higher-paying roles or career changes, which led her to build a cohort-based, no-code learning community.
Business model
Priced online cohort-based courses and programmes for individual learners, supplemented by an education financing offering (HT Pay), scholarships and payment plans, a talent hub/job board connecting trained women to employers, and sponsored or partner-backed programmes such as the HelpMum-sponsored incubator, corporate scholarships and brand partnerships.
Course fees from cohort-based online training, described by the company as reasonably priced; education loans and payment plans through its financing platform; and partnership/sponsorship arrangements underwriting free programmes.
Traction
The company reports over 7,000 alumni as of September 2024 and a community of 100,000 members across more than 25 countries with over 35 courses listed on its homepage; The Sun Nigeria reported over 60 courses and more than 100 women placed in jobs at companies worldwide. Alumni are said to work at Amazon, Auvenir, Incloud, Kainos, Telus and UBA. Reported income uplift for participants is stated as over $15 million in aggregate (a separate founder interview cites $12.5 added to earnings for thousands of women trained across 25 countries). Over 10,000 copies of the founder's book have been distributed in Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.
Latest developments
In 2024 the company held its first community linkup event in Lagos (July 2024) and launched a three-month, free FemTech and family-tech incubator programme in partnership with and sponsored by HelpMum, including a pitch competition with a ₦1,000,000 grand prize. Its site also lists FemNest 2.0, a 30 Days AI Challenge, FemNest Lab and partnerships including Leadway Hersurred, an Olaniwun Ajayi LP scholarship, Digital Dreamers and Zoho training.
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Market position
Positions itself as a women-focused edtech brand addressing the gender gap in African technology, and describes its FemTech and family-tech incubator as the first of its kind in Africa.
Emphasis on no-code pathways rather than programming, a cohort-based model chosen because self-paced course completion rates are low (cited as 4-5% versus 80-90% for cohorts), and a bundled offering that combines training with education financing and job placement for women, including career returners with breaks of up to ten years.
Technology
A cohort-based learning platform (referred to as My Eazy Class) delivering instructor-led live online training, plus a talent liquidity/job board platform and an education financing platform.
Go-to-market
Community-led growth from free webinars and founder blogging, in-person community linkup events, downloadable research reports, student success stories and testimonials, partner and corporate scholarship programmes, and press coverage in Nigerian technology and general media.
Women seeking to enter or advance in technology, including fresh graduates, stay-at-home mothers and career returners, immigrants, corporate professionals seeking senior roles, and women founders; primarily African women, with participants across 25 countries. Some programmes have also been opened to men.
Geography
Headquartered and most visible in Nigeria, with events held in Victoria Island, Lagos; courses offered across Africa and students in more than 25 countries; book distribution across five Nigerian states, Ghana and South Africa.
History
The concept emerged from the founder's 2020 blog posts and free webinars during her own transition back into technology, formalising into a cohort-based learning community; an "Our Story" page was published in 2021 and an About page dated 2020. By 2024 the company described a second phase of strategy focused on raising women innovators, beginning with the incubator programme announced in May and publicised in September 2024. It is described in press coverage as a brand under The Learning Core Company.
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsThe company held its first community linkup event at La Chaumiere restaurant in Victoria Island, Lagos, hosted by founder Bisola Alabi, with speakers from KPMG Nigeria, Payvantage Limited, Sovereign Finance Company Limited and Dotx Technologies.
Heels and Tech announced a free incubator programme focused on FemTech and family tech, sponsored by social enterprise HelpMum, featuring expert-led training and mentorship, networking and a pitch competition. Publicity in September 2024 described it as a three-month programme, with the pitch competition winner receiving a N1,000,000 grand prize sponsored by HelpMum.
Heels and Tech partnered with HelpMum, a social enterprise focused on reducing infant and maternal mortality across Africa, to run and sponsor the first edition of its incubator programme.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Heels and Tech – Transition into Tech with NO CODEheelsandtech.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Heels and Tech do?
- Nigeria-based edtech offering cohort-based no-code tech upskilling, funding and job placement for women.
- Who are Heels and Tech's investors?
- Heels and Tech's investors include Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB).