University Entrepreneurship Programs

We work with the academic world to help students develop their entrepreneurial skills, and enter the market as job-creators and not job seekers.

They work with us

Entrepreneurship requires students to “learn by doing” and should not be solely based on theory. To complement theoretical learning, we work with you to offer students a real-life-entrepreneurship experience.

Do you want to offer a world-class entrepreneurship pedagogy?

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Do you want to connect your students to the outside world?

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Do you want full visibility on student’s ventures development?

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Keep the Generation Z engaged by adding purpose and innovation to your curriculum

“Bridge for Billions is a practical methodology and the essential project monitoring tool for any entrepreneurship program manager. Beyond the tool, it is a great team, competent and available, which is at your service to offer the best follow-up to your students.”

Xavier LesageDirector of the Entrepreneurship Chair at ESSCA

“I think having a digital platform with a guided program, in addition to having mentors for each project team, was very good. Also, it was wonderful working with different Bridge for Billions people. The responsiveness and decisive attitude was extraordinary. ”

Liher Pillado ArbideMTA Incubation Program Director & Team Coach

How to incorporate Bridge for Billions’ in my university curriculum?

We know that every academic institution has a unique approach to pedagogy and we co-create each program so that the full entrepreneurial journey, online & offline, follows a logical progression. We will align with you on the program outcomes and adapt the service to fit your student’s unique needs.
We can integrate the program inside a degree or work with your in-campus innovation center.

Pre-program
During Program
Post-Program

Pre-program

Program architecture & design

We’ll jointly define the:

Learning goals for the program and articulate it with existing content
Program milestones and calendar
Selection criteria for both students and mentors.

Ideation workshop & program onboarding

We’ll get started with:

Ideation sessions to kick off the program
Get students ready with the right motivation

Call for mentors & matching

We’ll headhunt the mentors you need:

Define together the mentoring profiles we need to best support your students
Attract and select professionals from your alumni network
Look into your wider community and ours
Match each team of students with a mentor

During Program

Onboarding & intelligent matching

We’ll onboard students and mentors:

Give them a warm welcome to the program and set expectations
Run an optimized mentors-startups ‘Matching’ process
Make sure they both select the mentor/student they prefer to work with

Program with a proven methodology

Students and their mentors will:

Meet 1.5 hour weekly over 3 to 6 months, following our guided methodology
Brainstorm together and evolve throughout the program, all online!
Give and receive constant feedback on the venture development

Optional online learning checkpoints

We also:

Teach entrepreneurship ourselves
Or guide and support you in order to align our methodology to your classes.

Post-Program

Business plans, investment readiness & demo day

The startups obtain

Their downloadable business plan
Investment readiness training
Pitch training

Innovation ready to pilot

Your incubation manager will help you

Structure and define how you want to collaborate with startups
Choose the innovations that would add the most value to your sector
Work with ready-to-pilot startups
Negotiate the terms of financing, intellectual property and governance

At the forefront of entrepreneurship education with Mondragon Team Academy

Building on their mission to create a generation of young “team-preneurs”, Mondragon Team Academy partnered with us to bring their academic entrepreneurship program to the next level. It was crucial for them to provide the highest quality training, ensure that the students could validate the viability of their enterprises, and run the program across many campuses.

Incubating 120 student ventures from 5 countries with Santander Explorer Lab

Explorer Lab worked with us and 5 universities from Spain, Portugal, Argentina & Mexico to offer a 12 weeks online program to students so they could structure, build and validate their business idea.

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Comillas Emprende

An incubation program for Comillas University students with a focus on specific sectors like AI, blockchain, and Big Data. The entrepreneurs worked in teams and were supported by mentors from Comilla’s network of experts.

Leading Social Ventures program

Brown University worked with us to provide a training tool in their semester-long social entrepreneurship course for 15 student ventures. The mentors were Brown faculty, alumni and staff.

MSc in Entrepreneurship & Design Thinking

We have worked with ESSCA School of Management for the past 4 years, co-creating 8 editions of their entrepreneurship program and supported 101 projects in the creation and development of their business.

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Meet a Bridge for Billions program architect

Our program architects design innovation programs with the world’s leading corporates, foundations, universities and governments. Thanks to our years in the field, we know that each organization needs a tailored program that produces the right results, and that’s our main focus.

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Mayte

19/12/2020

Amazing experience!! Great entrepreneurs from several countries and industries. Good support from the Bridge team and the platform is a great guide. The Leap is a very valuable process in the entrepreneurial journey.

José Furfaro

Hola Nadia, gracias por tu correo!. La experiencia con Bridge en mi rol como mentor es enriquecedora como aprendizaje y como experiencia con cada mentee. Mi punto de vista luego de varios años con Bridge son dos: en primer lugar se debe mejorar la "selección" de proyectos a mentorizar en cuanto a su posibilidad de llevarlo a cabo y nivel de madurez de los mentores y por otro lado es necesario modificar la plataforma desde el punto de vista de usuario con el objetivo de que el mentee pueda ver resultados mas claros en cada herramienta y pueda comprenderla en su totalidad y como aplicarla. Desde ya, cualquier inquietud al respecto, no dejes de avisarme y podemos hablarlo directamente. Un saludo cordial, José

Dennis Farcinsen Leth

18/12/2020

I get to meet entrepreneurs with great moonshots and helping them developing a business around these ideas is such a gratifying journey. I love to see ideas, teams and individuals evolve and taking on big challenges. If you've got the skills for mentoring. You should join our tribe.

Mentor

07/10/2020

Love the concept but didn't have a great experience with my mentee/company. I didn't receive proper onboarding (not sure how I was missed), so felt a little unsure about how to proceed and give direction to my mentee in some areas. I was also disappointed at the quality of applicants and applications when I went to choose a project. Many were not filled out completely or well, many were also not really social projects (I thought all would be).

Ricardo Antonio

29/09/2020

In fact, to start from scratch is an excellent tool, only improve some variables in some tools, to make them more accessible to less technological entrepreneurs, (Fixed / variable asset types, for example) Great Tools and platform

Miguel

26/09/2020

Bueno, considerando mi falta de experiencia previa en lanzar una idea y convertirla en un proyecto en desarrollo, la verdad es que la herramienta de Bridge for Billions es una fórmula excelente de iniciación y orientación. Los mentores aportan una experiencia de la realidad muy útil para evaluar la solidez de los resultados y la minuciosidad del proceso. Creo que algunas de las tareas (realización de encuestas o estudios de mercado) se compadecen mal con los plazos disponibles para poder completar a tiempo los diferentes pasos y culminar en los tres meses previstos el proceso de incubación. Por eso yo hubiese agradecido anticipar ya al principio de la herramienta este tipo de tareas, de manera que diese tiempo a llevarlas a cabo con meticulosidad y poder incorporar sus resultados a la misma antes de que expirase el periodo de incubación, mejorando así notablemente la solidez de sus resultados. Aparte de esto, creo que en general ha sido una eficaz y provechosa experiencia.

Peter Nufiquoi Dolo

For far too long I have struggled with transforming my social impact business idea into a visible business plan. The truth is, I am not a business student or expert with expertise in business plan development. But through the help of a Bridge Mentor and a well tailored and easy-to-use step by step virtual platform, I have had the privilege to transform my business idea into a visible plan without even considering the pursuit of a business degree as a prerequisite. My excitement about the virtual platform is the presence of a parrot that contains helpful information to enable the preparation of one’s work in a way that the mentor will not have a lot of difficult time reviewing. In addition, the entire B4B program is unique and truly designed to help every entrepreneur realize their dream regardless of their economic situation and geographic location. I come from Liberia, a country devastated by fourteen years of civil unrest and a devastating period of Ebola outbreak that shattered the country's economy thus hampering my ability to afford the cost of participating in B4B incubation program. But through the innovation of the Bridge for Billions team, I was able to participate in the incubation without paying a dime as I was privileged to win the #GiftTheLeap competition where one slot is given to an entrepreneur who posts his/her business idea on Facebook and gets the highest likes and shares. In my true opinion, B4B is truly an unmatched 20st century opportunity for early stage entrepreneurs wanting to transform their ideas into a visible plan and reality regardless of the status quo. Apart from just assisting you with the tools to transform your idea into a business plan, B4B also connects entrepreneurs with amazing mentors who can be true companions in the journey. The guarantee of this, however, is up to you, the mentee/entrepreneur, how you manage the relationship with your mentor during the course of your three to four months agreement and beyond. I am grateful of how my professional relationship with my human centric mentor, Izabela Serowik, has transitioned to a point where she’s now more involved with the work of my organization, Community Solutions Aid (CSAID), as she continues to play an active advisory role as a Board Member while contributing to resource mobilization through fundraising to enable the pilot of the our proposed Student Housing Program intended to assist rural students overcome the challenge of limited access to quality secondary education in their communities. If there is anything that I can suggest to enhance the smooth operations of the Bridge incubation program, I would suggest that payment method(s) be diversified to include bank transfer as some inspiring entrepreneurs in developing countries lack access to PayPal and other options to pay the cost of the program online to enable their participation. Also, I will also suggest that there be some reduction in the cost of the program for entrepreneurs from low income countries to enable them afford their cost of participation as I consider this incubation a must for ever entrepreneur. In my frank and final word, give B4B incubation program a try. I am sure you will never regret the time.

Francisca

25/09/2020

Lev

I enjoyed the program and got a lot more out of it than I expected. Still a few rough edges in some of the modules, but overall was a very beneficial program for me and my team.

Esra

23/09/2020

Bridge for billions offers a good tool to startups but there is still improvements needed to be made. Some sections are very long and not relevant to some businesses.

University Entrepreneurship Programs

We work with the academic world to help students develop their entrepreneurial skills, and enter the market as job-creators and not job seekers.

Entrepreneurship requires students to “learn by doing” and should not be solely based on theory. To complement theoretical learning, we work with you to offer students a real-life-entrepreneurship experience.

Do you want students to engage more with your curriculum and be better ready for the “after-university”?

Do you want to connect your students with the outside innovation world via dedicated mentors?

Are you looking for a complementary practical method to your entrepreneurship offer?

Know how the universities can use entrepreneurship programs to reshape higher education

How to incorporate Bridge for Billions’ in my university curriculum?

Program architecture & design

Ideation workshop & program onboarding

Call for mentors & matching

Onboarding & intelligent matching

Program with a proven methodology

Optional online learning checkpoints

Business plans, investment readiness & demo day

Innovation ready to pilot

Incubating 120 student ventures from 5 countries with Santander Explorer Lab

Comillas Emprende

Leading Social Ventures program

MSc in Entrepreneurship & Design Thinking

Our incubation program

Innovation for Organizations

Entrepreneurship Community

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