EnCube Labs

Who this is for

EnCube Labs runs camps for school and university-age students, not programmes for startup founders. If you are looking for incubation, grants, workspace or investor access for a company, this is the wrong place to apply.

Choosing a programme

• A student aged 10 or above who wants a first hands-on run at design, electronics, coding and pitching: Zero2Entrepreneur Bootcamp.
• A middle or high school student interested in IT and maker education in Japan: Zero2Maker English x Tech Camp.

How applications work

Each dated batch has its own page with a register control. Places are limited on the Tokyo camp: registration closes once capacity is reached. Deadlines are published per batch, and when a deadline has passed that batch is finished. Ask about future batches rather than trying to join a past one.

What the pages look for

The pages do not publish a selection rubric. Stated eligibility is age and interest: the longer bootcamp takes ages 10 to 20 with no prior experience required, and the Tokyo camp is aimed at middle and high school students interested in learning IT and maker skills.

How to reach them

Questions go to info@encube.co. There is no separate founder or startup application route on the site.

EnCube Labs is a technology education company that runs hands-on STEM, design and entrepreneurship bootcamps for young students. Its own pages describe EnCube Labs LLC as a United States company, built on research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Asia School of Business. The programmes published on its website are short intensive camps for school and university-age learners, not incubation, funding or mentoring for startup founders.

What they support

Teaching centres on the hands-on application of science, art, technology, design and business. Students build things through electronics, coding and fabrication, and practise turning an idea into a pitch. Age bands are explicit: the longer bootcamp takes students from 10 to 20 years old and states that no prior experience is required, while the Tokyo camp is aimed at middle and high school students interested in IT and maker education.

EnCube Labs is not a startup incubator or accelerator. Across the pages on its website there is no founder intake, no funding for companies, no incubation space and no mentoring programme for startups. A founder looking for grants, acceleration or investor introductions for a venture will not find those here. The investor pitch at the end of the longer bootcamp is a practice exercise for students, not a funding route.

Programmes

Zero2Entrepreneur Bootcamp is a seven-day workshop that introduces students to design, electronics, coding, fabrication and entrepreneurship. It closes with participants pitching to investors. The batch published on its page was dated for the Asia School of Business campus in Kuala Lumpur in 2025, and the application deadline for that intake has passed. Participants who complete the journey earn an official certificate from Asia School of Business, in collaboration with MIT Sloan.

Zero2Maker English x Tech Camp is a four-day camp in Tokyo for middle and high school students. It combines English study with a choice of app, game, video or web courses, and is organised with Life Is Tech in Japan. The batch published on its page was dated for early May 2025; registration for that intake closed once capacity was reached, and those dates have passed.

Both of these are dated camps held outside India. The company also describes a broader workshop track behind the longer bootcamp. Programme pages are written for students and their parents rather than for founders, and neither camp is an intake for a startup.

Scale

EnCube Labs states that the Zero2Entrepreneur framework has run in over 100 workshops across ten countries and has reached more than 4,000 learners worldwide. Those are the company's own counts, and the pages that carry them are undated. The stated mission is to inspire and cultivate a generation of young innovators and entrepreneurs worldwide.

How to apply

Each programme has its own page with a register control, and the company directs enquiries to info@encube.co. Deadlines and capacity limits are published per batch. The Tokyo camp page lists a participation fee and separate optional extras such as accommodation and personal-computer rental. The Zero2Entrepreneur page is not clear on whether that bootcamp charges a fee, so confirm with the organisers before planning travel.

Locations

The website describes EnCube Labs LLC as a US-based company. The two programmes found on the site ran in Kuala Lumpur and in Tokyo. Company registry records report a separate Indian private limited company under a similar name, registered in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. That Indian registration is not confirmed on the company's own website, so the two should not be assumed to share an address or a management.

Who runs it

The curriculum is described as built on research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Asia School of Business. The Zero2Entrepreneur certificate is issued by Asia School of Business in collaboration with MIT Sloan, and the Tokyo camp is organised with Life Is Tech. The website does not name a leadership team or publish staff profiles.