Help a small business succeed
Visa and Bridge for Billions invite you to mentor innovative start-ups!
Leverage your expertise with Bridge for Billions’ online incubation program and support early-stage woman entrepreneurs in validating their business idea and developing a business plan.
What's Bridge for Billions?
Bridge for Billions is a digital ecosystem of incubation programs that provides the right tools and guidance to early-stage entrepreneurs to develop their projects, facilitates access to mentorship, and offers a dynamic and impactful learning experience for founders and mentors.
The program relies on a proven methodology and a scalable technology platform, so you can easily support a venture with the guidance of our structured program, over a period of 3,5 months.
In this edition of the program, you will be paired with one of the 20 women entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia. Your mission will be to mentor and accompany them during the program journey.
Why should you participate in this program?
Learn by doing
Our active learning model facilitates the role of the mentor by providing a clear structure and resources explained in a simple and practical way.
Connect with innovative people
You will have the opportunity to connect, meet and then choose the different projects of the selected entrepreneurs.
Join a global community
Expand your network by connecting with founders and mentors from around the world.
Continuous learning
As a mentor, you will receive training and support as you will practice skills such as active listening and effective communication.
Whenever and wherever you are
Support your project from anywhere in the world, at a time that suits you. Our program is 100% online.
Be part of the change and lead the future
Connect with like-minded profiles and work with courageous people who are working on some of the biggest challenges and opportunities.
Requirements to apply as a mentor
- Availability of 1 hour per week during the 3 and a half months of the program.
- Have at least 5 years of professional experience.
- Commitment to review and monitor your entrepreneur's work prior to her mentoring meetings.
- Have a passion for entrepreneurship and helping entrepreneurs succeed.
Apply before August, 25th!
Program Timeline
Apply to participate in the program
Tell us more about yourself and your professional profile by submitting your application below. Our team will evaluate your selection in the program.
Confirmation of selected profiles
We will review the completed applications to select at least 20-40 mentors to participate in this edition of the program.
Join the onboarding session
Incubation Program
Start the online incubation experience with mentoring sessions, work tools and structured development. You will have 3.5 months to help your entrepreneur complete the incubation cycle and develop her validated business plan.
The best methodology
Entrepreneurship is a chaotic process by nature. That’s why, Bridge for Billions’ methodology is based on a structured and hands-on learning approach. Our incubation program helps entrepreneurs develop a business plan from scratch while being surrounded by an international community with other founders, fellow mentors, and an incubation team.
Our incubation platform and our eight online business modules will help you during your mentorship journey, making it easier for you to know what’s next. By the end of the program, the entrepreneurs will be confident that they are building a viable and validated business.
Ready to start?
Frequently Asked Questions
During the duration of the program (3.5 months), you will have to meet once a week with your entrepreneur for mentoring meetings for 1 hour. In addition to that, we recommend always dedicating at least 30 extra minutes to review progress on the platform, and go to the meetings prepared. Also, as the mentee completes each of the tools, you and/or your co-mentor should carefully review each section of the tool to validate the mentee’s work, this takes at least 1 extra hour.
You should be able to use a laptop or desktop computer (not a tablet or mobile phone) and preferably one of these browsers: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox. We expect you to have a strong and reliable internet connection both for your online work on the platform and to participate in the calls with your mentee via videoconference.
To facilitate the matching process between mentors and mentees, we have created the process of “organic matching”.
This way, you will have the opportunity to meet the different participating projects, invite them to a “Virtual Coffee” to get to know the ideas in detail and then both parties can decide if they want to work together or not. This way we make sure that we create solid and lasting mentoring relationships.
Bridge for Billions and Visa have partnered with the goal of providing high quality entrepreneurship tools to Saudi Arabian women entrepreneurs. We believe that by providing this program at no cost, we are truly supporting them to unleash their potential and create their solution.
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