We create, design and manage entrepreneurship programs to encourage diversity address inclusivity boost meritocracy create decent jobs motivate economic growth increase quality of life strengthen ecosystems promote innovation
We create, design and manage entrepreneurship programs to encourage diversity address inclusivity boost meritocracy create decent jobs motivate economic growth increase quality of life strengthen ecosystems promote innovation
Let’s design the perfect entrepreneurship program for your organization
Corporations
Engage your employees with your organization’s values, promote innovation in the sector of your preference and build diverse and inclusive entrepreneurial initiatives.
Foundations
Generate growth opportunities, increase the quality of life of vulnerable groups and promote social innovation to solve the problems that truly matter.
Dev. Agencies & Governments
Generate decent jobs, let us increase the capacity of local incubators so they can scale entrepreneurship support in your region and promote innovation where it’s most needed.
More than 100 organizations already trust us
The secret sauce to all of our programs
We have the perfect combination of pedagogical techniques, technological features, personalized support and a supportive community.
Program Management
Count with a team of multilingual professionals that have designed and managed 221 entrepreneurship programs worldwide to help you run your own program from A to Z and achieve your organization’s goals. Your program manager may be Santiago Garcia from Argentina, Margarida Valadas from Portugal, Sebastian Beeche from Costa Rica, Natàlia Bartrolí from Spain or another one of our expert program managers.
Leading methodology
With our “learn by doing” methodology inspired by MIT’s Disciplined Entrepreneurship we can ensure entrepreneurs create validated businesses as they work week by week in the incubation platform and through one-to-one sessions with their personal mentor.
Incubation Platform
Our incubation platform takes the complexity of building an entrepreneurship program and makes it into a smooth and manageable process all-in-one place. Your team can be as hands on or off as you need to.
Community Building
We provide a space to foster a dynamic entrepreneurship ecosystem where connections between entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and organizations happen everyday. The space is accessible to all participants for life and entrepreneurs can access perks valued in over $30K, training, and events.
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Current programs
GIRA Mujeres
As part of their CSR Strategy, Coca-Cola developed a nationwide entrepreneurship program to support women developing businesses in the food and beverage sector in order to drive socio-economic development in rural and urban areas across Spain and Portugal.
IDEA App Program
As part of their economic development efforts, UNIDO launched a series of over 10 entrepreneurship programs in 15 different countries to support over 1000 entrepreneurs. The IDEA App program is one of the most ambitious entrepreneurship initiatives around the globe and will guide founders in developing innovative solutions in priority value chains for each country while also welcoming less-represented groups like youth and women into the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Chanel Employee Engagement
Chanel teamed up with Bridge for Billions to design a corporate volunteering program that would provide an inspiring opportunity to employees. The program stemmed from Ashoka’s Changemaking Companies initiative, with Chanel’s objective to support employees in deepening their knowledge of social entrepreneurship.
Visa Mentorship Program
Visa Inc. designed a corporate volunteering program where employees became mentors to founders from underrepresented groups creating small and micro-businesses. The objective of the program is to promote economic development and growth in collectives who normally wouldn’t have access to support and resources whilst providing an engaging mentorship opportunity for Visa Inc. employees.
Work4Progress
La Caixa Foundation, through its entrepreneurship program, decided to support founders from underrepresented groups, with a lack of literacy and no previous support in entrepreneurship. This program aims to support entrepreneurs who are developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life of people in two Peruvian regions, Quispicanchi and Condorcanqui specifically.
A Mamá le tengo Fe
This program by Fundación Monge was created in commemoration of Mother’s Day to support Costa Rican mothers and encourage female entrepreneurship. In this program, women entrepreneurs were able to access resources and training in the development of their new businesses.
Social Innovation Incubator
This program aims to address historical opportunity and resource gaps as well as systemic racial and gender inequities in the social innovation sector in North Texas. The program was specifically built to support early-stage social ventures led and staffed by women and people of color who are working to implement new and creative solutions to pressing problems facing North Texans in the areas of Education, Income, and Health.
SOFIA Romania
Social Finance Alliance for Romania (SoFiA) is an integrated program seeking to act as a catalyser for the development of the social finance ecosystem in Romania. In this program, social enterprises received incubation and investment readiness training with guidance from international and national mentors.
Work for Yourself@50+
The AARP Foundation launched an entrepreneurship program to support adults over 50 from low-income backgrounds as they developed successful businesses with the objective to build a future without senior poverty.
The Restoration Factory
An entrepreneurship program to achieve the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration goals by supporting entrepreneurs in the development of new purpose-driven forest businesses that ensure that restoration happens in a systematic way, born from an innovative way to do business, with the welfare of the ecosystem in mind.
Programa de Incubación
An entrepreneurship program by Ciudad del Saber to scale their reach and promote the generation of startups in Panama. The objective of the program was to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem capable of growing at an accelerated pace and contributing dynamism to the country’s economy.
Estela
An incubation and acceleration program by PYMAR to connect with entrepreneurs developing innovative solutions in the Shipyard industry. The program aimed to find and support business ideas that could impact directly and be applicable to the sector in order to optimize production, reduce inefficiencies and increase the productivity of the industry through the application of innovative technologies.
Jaiz Competition
Jaiz Bank, as part of their CSR strategy, launched an entrepreneurship program to support startups in Nigeria developing solutions to the most pressing issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lab Emprendimiento Jurídico
The program Lab Emprendimiento Jurídico was launched as an initiative to foster entrepreneurial talent and innovation culture among legal professionals. The program aimed to support innovative ideas that respond to the current challenges of the legal profession, focusing on the resolution of pressing needs of companies in the sector such as the problems arising from cybersecurity and digital identity, among others.
B-BRIDDHI
This program is part of the Biniyog Briddhi: Social Impact Enterprises of Bangladesh. We offer a capacity-building program for incubators and accelerators in order to help them upgrade their offer and support many more social enterprises in Bangladesh.
Desafío Emprendimiento Global
Fundación Universia collaborated with Bridge for Billions to create its own incubation program to support the development of business ideas created by entrepreneurs living with disabilities or entrepreneurs working to develop business ideas aimed at improving the lives of people living with disabilities.
We have carried out 221 entrepreneurship programs
helping more than 2432 entrepreneurs
in 98 countries
"Thanks to Bridge for Billions, the winners of our GIRA Mujeres program to promote female entrepreneurship received specialized mentoring and support at a key moment in their entrepreneurial initiatives. Through this mentoring they received the necessary tools to launch their projects and generate a positive impact in their environments and places of origin."
Carmen Gómez-Acebo
Sustainability Director, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Iberia
The right combination of purpose, attitude and know-how. All in one team
We believe that no matter the country, area of innovation, socioeconomic level or gender, entrepreneurs who want to develop sustainable and innovative solutions to solve the problems that truly matter should have access to the right support and resources. By supporting the development and creation of startups at the right stage together we’ll be able to take innovation to where it has never been before and generate decent growth and job opportunities for all.
That’s why our team of incubation experts has built entrepreneurship programs all around the world to support 2432 founders from 98 countries with all types of clients in the mission to create a more inclusive, efficient and meritocratic entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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