Obatala's COO, David Bode, served as a mentor in the 2021-2022 Tulane Novel Tech Challenge, a year long technology development extracurricular activity where Tulane students do product development and customer discovery to build a commercializable product. Mr. Bode mentored Fleur Femtech, which is building an over the counter diagnostic for endometriosis. Fleur Femtech won first place in the 2022 Novel Tech Final Pitch.