Building Bridges to Opportunity
We connect youth to real pathways for employment and entrepreneurship. Educators guide the journey. Employers find talent that fits. Everyone wins.
What Facilitate Does
One platform. Three pathways. Endless opportunity.
For Youth
Find jobs, build skills, or start your own venture. We guide you every step - from your first opportunity to your biggest idea.
For Educators
Bring real pathways into your classroom. Curriculum-aligned tools that help your students go from learning to earning.
Employers and ecosystem partners access youth talent that's prepared, aligned, and ready to contribute.
Who We Are
Two brothers on a mission to end youth unemployment.
Kay Boamah
Founder & CEO
Kay's vision drives Facilitate - creating pathways to economic independence for young people everywhere, with special focus on empowering African youth globally.
Paul Boamah
Founder & COO
Paul builds the systems that turn potential into outcomes. His frontline experience shapes technology that empowers youth to create value from day one.
Where We Got Our Start
Facilitate was built inside Canada's academic innovation ecosystem. A few campus-linked resources were pivotal in getting us from idea to market — here's the specific role each played.
Accelerated to market
ICUBE — one of twelve campus-linked accelerators in the University of Toronto Entrepreneurship network — accelerated Facilitate onto the market as a social enterprise.
Where we secured our IP
The IP Innovation Clinic, part of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, is a campus-linked resource that helps Canadian founders protect their intellectual property. It's where we built the IP foundation to scale across Canada and beyond.
Support to scale
Facilitate is one of 1,200+ ventures supported by MaRS — one of the world's largest innovation hubs — through its resources, advisory network, and programming.
We work with many partners as we grow; these shaped our earliest chapters.