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 236 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 Soares 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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Our programs
The Leap
The Bridge for Billions flagship online incubation program created so that entrepreneurs from all over the world can access a structured methodology, individual mentoring sessions, support, and guidance from experts in entrepreneurship, as well as a global community of entrepreneurs.
Investment Connection Program
CENPROMYPE, ASEGUA, Bridge for Billions, and CAPCA have joined forces to increase investment literacy, raise awareness of financing opportunities and provide ongoing structured support for entrepreneurs in the acceleration stage.
EPIC Program
EPIC (End Poverty Innovation Challenge) is the flagship program for Social Ventures Foundation, a US-based foundation, that supports students in their journey of developing their social business. SVF and Bridge for Billions have now joined forces to develop ‘EPIC Costa Rica’ with one clear goal: to drive social and economic development in the country.
BBK Ekin
BBK Ekin incubates social entrepreneurs developing businesses with a positive social impact. Finalist projects will be incubated for four months, and the three best projects will receive up to €10,000 in cash prizes.
ARUSEA Incubation Program
The Incubation Program of the Alliance for Urban Resilience in Southeast Asia (ARUSEA) seeks to empower social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia with projects aimed at improving the living conditions of their communities by mitigating the negative effects of natural disasters in their region.
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 2021
This program by United Way Metropolitan Dallas 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.
Reactivamos Centroamerica
Reactivamos Centroamérica is a collaborative initiative where different entrepreneurship support organizations in the region improve their program offering through training on topics such as incubation best practices and business model. Through the program, these organizations simultaneously incubate up to 50 ventures activating mentors, youth, women and leaders from different communities, in order to strengthen the current ecosystem.
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.
We have carried out 236 entrepreneurship programs
helping more than 2959 entrepreneurs
in 124 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 4140 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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Entrepreneurship programs
Entrepreneurship Community
Copyright © 2022 Bridge for Billions. Made by Bridge with billions of 💚