Scaling Impact Enterprises Bangladesh 2021 - Bridge for Billions Programs

Build your capacity as an incubator accelerator with a pioneering program in Bangladesh

About the program

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 offer high-quality support to social enterprises in Bangladesh.

If you are selected, you will receive training on how to run your fully digital or blended incubation program through our proven methodology and technology. Don’t worry, we’ll onboard you to all the nitty-gritty details of running your own incubation program!

What is Bridge For Billions?

Bridge for Billions is a digital entrepreneurship ecosystem that creates, designs and manages entrepreneurship support programs for early-stage founders.

We support entrepreneurs as they develop their businesses by connecting them with a volunteer personal mentor and by guiding them through a step-by-step methodology. Our online programs allow founders to validate their business with real clients before going to market.

How will be your program with us?

Digitalize your support

You'll manage the entire program by using our scalable technology to provide a high-quality incubation program to all members.

Gain control and visibility over your program

You'll be able to easily monitor the progress of each startup, their interaction with mentors, and provide a great experience for them.

100% Learn by Doing

The program offers a learn-by-doing approach where founders validate their project by talking to real customers and working on all the fundamentals of launching their business.

Facilitated Mentorship

Your mentors will be provided with all the necessary tools and training to increase the quality of the mentorship.

100% Collaborative

Startups and mentors collaborate remotely. The startups go through the step-by-step of building their business while the mentors review and validate their work.

Join a Global Network

All members will be invited to our online community to create new connections, access opportunities, generate online events and increase your program engagement.

At Bridge for Billions, we believe that talent is everywhere, but opportunities are not. That is why in the last 5 years we have been building innovation and entrepreneurship programs supporting 1800+ founders across 70+ countries. With the second edition of the Scaling Impact Enterprises in Bangladesh program, we want to help social entrepreneurs in Bangladesh to succeed.

The best mentoring platform of the ecosystem

The Bridge for Billions method is based on developing a business plan from scratch while the entrepreneur is surrounded by a supportive community; mentors, other entrepreneurs and our incubation team.

Our digital platform allows entrepreneurs to experiment, research and document their ideas step-by-step so that at the end of the program they have the certainty of having a validated business ready to tackle the next steps.

Requirements to apply as incubator/accelerator:

Be legally registered in Bangladesh
Have at least 2 years of operations
Have a proven track record running incubation programs
Provide evidence of having run one of these programs in the last 6 months
Have a solid network of mentors
Commit to integrate the Bridge for Billions platform in your regular incubation program
Commit to recruiting both mentors and enterprises for the upcoming program
Allocate an Incubation Manager to be trained by Bridge for Billions and manage your program from A to Z (Aprox. time dedication: 20 hours per week)

Participants of Scaling Impact Enterprises Bangladesh 2020

"This tool is way more than we needed. We were unstructured and unaware of what documents we need to sort but this tool helps us to sort all the information and structure in a system."

"This program is useful for entrepreneurs who want to scale their start-ups. It will give a clear understanding of ventures and how to execute the tasks in order to set up a successful venture."

"It was an excellent program which helped me find the actual potential of my business and the sectors which we need to work on."

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Program Timeline

April 14, 2021

Apply until April 14th

Tell us more about your organization in the application form below. We will select the participating incubators and accelerators, who will benefit from the opportunity to offer entrepreneurs access to structured resources and mentorship opportunities unique in the Bangladesh accelerator ecosystem.

May, 2021

Results & Onbarding to the program

If selected, you will undergo a training by the Bridge for Billions team about the incubation platform, its methodology and how to run your incubations programs with it. After that, you will have the flexibility to implement it as you see fit: (1) Either as part of an ongoing onsite incubation program; (2) Or as a standalone offer to impact enterprises that you would not have been able to incubate otherwise.

June, 2021 onwards

Selection of your participants

All incubators and accelerators will be responsible for recruiting their cohort of impact enterprises and mentors for the program. A website and marketing materials will be provided so that both mentors and impact enterprises can apply through your own Bridge for Billions’ portal.

From June to December, 2021

Run your online incubation program

Program licenses will be valid from May until December 2021. In this time, incubators will let their entrepreneurs and mentors match one another via the platform's matching module, and have them start the structured online incubation with weekly activities and mentorship sessions. Not all programs have to run concurrently, each incubator will need 4 months for their participants to complete the full Bridge for Billions incubation cycle

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