Bridge for Billions Year in Review 2021

In 2021, you bet on democratizing access to entrepreneurship globally with us. In the same year, we increased our impact by 60%, reaching +3350 entrepreneurs in 93 countries. Here’s what we made possible together.

950 new entrepreneurs incubated their projects with us, increasing our impact by 60% since 2020.

We co-created 38 new programs with B2B partners who share our purpose.

We implemented programs in a vast number of countries across North and Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia, helping local entrepreneurs build solutions to problems that matter the most.

We kept our promise to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with over two thirds of our programs supporting minority-led startups.

We boosted job creation, reaching an average of 5 jobs created per team during the 2 years following their incubation.

We supported entrepreneurs building innovative solutions for the betterment of society in sectors such as MedTech, Reforestation, Youth Education, Agriculture, HighTech, Health and Wellbeing, Food and beverage, Sustainable Transportation and many more.

All-time Impact

It’s not all about 2021 – since 2015 we’ve been using entrepreneurship as a vehicle to reactivate the economy through job creation, connect employees with their purpose, make innovation for all a reality and support entrepreneurs creating solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. After 7 years in business, we’re proud to still be shaking up the ecosystem with positive impact.

The impact of our programs to this day

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Our Programs 2021

In 2021, we were pleased to welcome on board new organizations to build programs with us, as well as continue collaborating with our existing partners. Here are some of the unique programs we co-created.

DoorDash Accelerator for Local Restaurants: Live & Local Series

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Designed specifically for restaurant owners, the Accelerator will support small and medium-sized food businesses in Washington, D.C. and Minneapolis, MN to diversify their revenue streams.

BECU Inclusive Entrepreneur Program

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Designed for BIPOC founders, the BECU Inclusive Entrepreneur Program will provide access to mentorship, entrepreneurship methodology, and a community of entrepreneurs just like you.

Emprende Verde

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Emprende Verde will transform ideas into sustainable business projects in Guatemala. Created by Coca-Cola and Bridge for Billions, the program aims to support 60 entrepreneurs looking to innovate in the circular economy to generate a positive impact in the country.

Puentes de Desarrollo – Segunda Edición

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Boost your business with Puentes de Desarrollo, a program empowering agricultural entrepreneurs in Guatemala thanks to Banco Industrial.

Desafío Ashoka Changemakers

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Ashoka launches in Spain, in collaboration with IKEA, its incubation program for social projects, which seeks to reach all entrepreneurs in the country. Become a mentor and support them to promote social innovation and economic growth in the country.

Conecta M&R España

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Conecta Migrants and Refugees is a free entrepreneurship program that brings together five renowned Entrepreneurship Support Organizations, deeply connected with migrant and refugee communities. Its mission is to support and provide educational resources, personalized mentorship, and a network of contacts to drive business development.

Conecta M&R Italia

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Conecta M&R offers a free entrepreneurship support program that supports aspiring or current migrant and refugee entrepreneurs in Lombardy and Lazio regions, Italy. Our mission is to provide educational resources, one-to-one mentoring and networking to support the development of early-stage businesses.

IN-HABIT Riga 2023

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IN-HABIT Riga will set up a multifunctional food hub for sustainably produced and locally sourced food in the area of the ?genskalns market, serving as a recreational and educational space for all ages and social groups.

IN-HABIT Lucca 2023

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IN-HABIT Lucca will foster the human-animal relationships, making it the first Hum-An smart city in Europe. By better mobilizing existing animal resources, the project will contribute to social innovation based on transition management methods and intergenerational open participation of citizens.

IN-HABIT Nitra 2023

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Through an integrated environment and art corridor, IN-HABIT Nitra will connect places and people. As part of these innovations, minority groups of people with special needs who are traditionally underrepresented in city planning and development have been included in the different stages of the project to boost inhabitant health and well-being.

IN-HABIT Cordoba/Andalucía

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IN-HABIT Cordoba will use this rich cultural heritage to explore its culture in the promotion of inclusive health and wellbeing, investigating social, cultural, digital, technological and nature-based innovations and developing green, sustainable and creative areas to drive inclusion in more deprived neighborhoods.

BBK Ekin 2024

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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.

Incubation Program Powered by Payoneer

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The Bridge for Billions incubation Program Powered by Payoneer aims to empower 70 digital business owners that want to scale their day-to-day operations. We want to support them in building solid foundations for their business development, and making their entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Programa de Apoyo a Mujeres STEAM 2

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This is the second edition of the incubation program for supporting women entrepreneurs in the STEAM sector – Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics.

B-Briddhi 2023/2024

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Biniyog Briddhi (“B-Briddhi”) is a multi-year programme that runs since 2020 and is dedicated to supporting a thriving ecosystem where impact enterprises of Bangladesh can grow and scale their impact.

Project Makers: Impacto Social

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Project Makers: Social Impact is the first technology company accelerator that not only assists you with your business but also focuses on helping to scale its impact in reducing poverty on our island. This program is made possible thanks to the efforts of its two sister organizations, also focused on eradicating child poverty: Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico and the integrated services center Vimenti.

Stories that Matter

We’re driven to keep growing by the entrepreneurs powering a new kind of innovation, generating solutions to better their communities and finding the most innovative ways to change the status quo. Here are some of their stories.

Empowering minority groups

We are Poderosas

Alejandra Ramos Gómez

Social Innovation Incubator, USA, a program to support social entrepreneurs in Texas

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We are Poderosas is a bilingual self-empowerment and spoken word initiative for girls, focused on supporting immigrant communities who come from Spanish-speaking countries and who might not find support or programs in their mother tongue. The project supports girls’ socioemotional development by providing workshops on life skills, oracy, self-advocacy, and emotional literacy. This social initiative seeks to create self-empowered social agents in local communities to combat gender inequity.

Entrepreneurship at any age

Revelations Life Sciences LLC

Juanita Singleton

Work for Yourself @50+, USA, a program to reduce senior poverty through entrepreneurship

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Juanita worked as a practitioner nurse for 30+ years specializing in gerontology, Alzheimer’s disease, and Lupus, and decided to start her venture, Revelations Life Sciences LLC, to create innovative, therapeutic products for the wellbeing of women at 60 years old, unable to handle the physical pressure of working on a hospital ward. Noticing the outdated nature of some products and practices, and with the surge of healthcare innovation Covid-19 has brought, she spotted an opportunity to structure and validate her business through the program and will be launching her first product, a fully-equipped kit for diabetics very soon.

Powering job creation

Goodness Green

Fatoumata Fall

IDEA App Senegal, a program to boost job creation and local innovation in the agricultural sector.

Economic Development Program

Forbes Top 30 Under 30 recipient Fatoumata is now on a mission to address food shortages and excessive importation in Africa by accelerating vegetable production through Hydroponics. Her research shows the impact of hydroponics on African vegetable growers could be huge: their lives and livelihoods would improve, with year-round activity and their revenues could double. The Goodness Green Team believes this will also be a practical solution to integrate thousands of young people into the agribusiness sector every year.

Creating opportunity for youth

Nerdy Punk

Tulio Tercero

Reactivamos Centro América, Honduras, a program to boost job creation and strengthen the Central American Ecosystem

Economic Development Program

Tulio Tercero founded Nerdy Punk after learning about the lack of educational tech content for beginners in Honduras and across Latin America as well as the need for coders in the region. NerdyPunk is providing affordable tech education for kids and young adults in a way they can access it anywhere they are.

Innovation that Matters

HumanITCare

Núria Pastor and Unai Sanchez

Making More Health, an employee engagement program to power innovation in the HealthCare sector

Innovation Promotion program

A multidisciplinary team of developers, designers, product owners, healthcare professionals and business & marketing analysts with a mission to provide real-time, reliable, and quality health data to improve clinical outcomes. The team has grown by 12 members and raised €2,500,000 in Seed funding from the European Commission since participating in the Making More Health program supported by an expert mentor from Boehringer Ingelheim.

All of this is made possible by…

This is made possible by the support of our B2B partners and our common purpose to increase access to high quality entrepreneurship support and training around the globe. We’d like to extend a thank you to all those who continue to work with us, and are looking forward to what we’ll create together in 2022.