In the earliest days of neOOne, there was no office. Yasmin and Juara based themselves at their local Starbucks every day. Later they opened their first office-a small 350 square foot space above a supermarket. Even then, they continued to look for ways to set up a larger space to accommodate the community of practice they had envisioned.

This search culminated in 2013, when they secured seed funding from PUNB, a local entrepreneur development government agency. With this they established their first learning center, the neOOne Centre for Accelerated Learning (NCAL). The 3,400 sq. ft. learning space has since hosted more than 400 learning events, including training, workshops, forums and seminars. To date they have received more than 6,000 guests at the center.

Six years later, seeing the growth and potential of neOOne, the board of PUNB offered a second-round of funding to expand neOOne’s offerings and capacity. This enabled neOOne to open their second premises, a three-storey office building equipped with a co-working space, event space, makerspace and some will say naturally, a coffee bar. This new establishment was called SETEMPAT.