Babele

White-labeled innovation programs

Design, launch & run world-class programs.

Babele designs and powers white-labeled, cohort-based accelerators, incubators, and intrapreneurship programs — blending expert content, mentorship, and one platform to manage every cohort.

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OUR APPROACH

We help you innovate faster, better, and cheaper.

We unlock the innovation and sustainability potential of leading organizations with processes that are validation-driven, impact-oriented, collaborative, and scalable — refined by supporting more than 1,000 innovation teams and social enterprises worldwide.

Powering innovation ecosystems worldwide

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WHAT WE POWER

Every kind of innovation program.

From accelerators and incubators to competitions, open innovation, and intrapreneurship — Babele runs the full spectrum of innovation programs.

Bootcamps & pre-accelerators

Short, intensive programs that take cohorts from idea to validated concept, fast.

Startup competitions & open calls

Launch open calls and prizes with multi-round, weighted evaluations and transparent selection.

Open innovation

Source and co-develop solutions with startups, employees, and partners around real-world challenges.

University & student programs

Support student ventures with guided learning journeys, mentoring, and collaboration spaces.

Intrapreneurship

Engage employees as intrapreneurs to build new ventures and tackle strategic priorities.

Accelerators & incubators

Run structured cohorts from application to demo day, with milestones, mentoring, and reporting.

INTRAPRENEURSHIP & OPEN INNOVATION

Engage your whole organization in innovation.

We help you build innovation ecosystems that repeatedly deliver new, sustainable business models — engaging intrapreneurs, mentors, and experts, and leveraging the collective wisdom of your extended network so everyone can contribute, collaborate, and learn.

Open innovation

CDC

CDC’s idea-incubation program engages 5,000+ employees across 5 countries in a collaborative accelerator producing sustainability-driven solutions that boost the bank’s social and environmental impact.

Strategy co-creation

Artsana

Artsana co-develops sustainable baby-care products with internal and external stakeholders — engineers, marketing, sales, innovation, CSR, experts, and clients across 7 countries.

Social intrapreneurship

Banca Transilvania

BT’s program helps directors build an entrepreneurial mindset by mentoring NGOs that create revenue-generating activities — applying the learning on real, impactful projects.

IN PERSON

Inside the room.

Co-creation sprints, bootcamps, and demo days — a look at Babele programs on the ground.

PLATFORM + WORKSHOPS

Online we’re great. In person, even better.

Lean Startup and Business Modeling

Lean Startup & Business Modeling

Hands-on trainings and bootcamps on Lean Startup, business modeling, and growth hacking.

Reinventing Organizations

Reinventing Organizations

An inspiring event on a new management paradigm: leadership, self-management, and evolutionary purpose.

Social Business and Shared Value

Social Business & Shared Value

A dynamic event on social-enterprise business models, market trends, and best practices.

THE PROCESS

How a Babele program works.

1

Design

We co-design the program — goals, curriculum, milestones, and evaluation criteria.

2

Recruit & apply

Open calls and applications bring in the right cohort, with multi-round scoring.

3

Run the cohort

Teams learn by doing — online and in person — with content, tasks, and mentoring.

4

Mentor & track

Experts support every team while you track progress and engagement in real time.

5

Showcase & measure

Demo days, reporting, and impact metrics close the loop and prove results.

THE PLATFORM

Your innovation management platform.

The Babele platform
  • Leverage the collective wisdom of your advisors’ network, worldwide.
  • Make best practices readily available, fostering knowledge transfer.
  • Facilitate mutual learning between innovators and employees.
  • Make innovation everyone’s business — and strengthen transparency & collaboration.

What we can cover

Topics we can cover in workshops and events.

Equip every venture with proven methodologies — ready to run as-is, or fully customizable to your program.

Venture Strategy and Business Models

Refine value propositions, define target markets, and structure scalable business models aligned with long-term impact.

Finance & Fundraising

Develop financial projections, manage budgets, and prepare investor-ready fundraising strategies.

Marketing & Market Entry

Design customer acquisition strategies, refine positioning, and implement growth plans across digital and offline channels.

Sustainability & Impact

Drive change while building a sustainable future. Understand how to measure and improve your environmental, social, and governance impact, integrating sustainability into the core of your venture’s strategy.

Leadership & Team development

Strengthen leadership capabilities, align teams, and build governance structures that support sustainable growth.

See it in action

Two minutes inside Babele.

PROVEN IN THE FIELD

Programs we’ve designed and run.

LEVEL-UP

Accelerator

LEVEL-UP

Corporates and social ventures work side-by-side for six months of open, social innovation.

Social Enterprise 4Women

Incubator

Social Enterprise 4Women

An international incubator for female student entrepreneurs, built with six European universities.

SDG Virtual Accelerator

Accelerator

SDG Virtual Accelerator

A 3-month investment-readiness accelerator for social entrepreneurs from 65 countries, with the UN SDSN.

Refugees Integration Accelerator

Pre-accelerator

Refugees Integration Accelerator

Seven refugee-and-local teams built social enterprises on the island of Lesvos.

EY Impact

Mentorship

EY Impact

EY consultants mentor UK philanthropic organizations through an 8-week pro-bono program.

Cook Your Startup

Bootcamp

Cook Your Startup

500 teams across 16 cities trained through hands-on, collaborative-cooking bootcamps.

DESIRE

Curriculum

DESIRE

An innovative digital social-entrepreneurship curriculum for junior high-school students.

Design Thinking vs Bullying

Pre-accelerator

Design Thinking vs Bullying

High-schoolers use design thinking to build solutions against bullying, with Save the Children.

LEVEL-UP

Accelerator

LEVEL-UP

Corporates and social ventures work side-by-side for six months of open, social innovation.

Social Enterprise 4Women

Incubator

Social Enterprise 4Women

An international incubator for female student entrepreneurs, built with six European universities.

SDG Virtual Accelerator

Accelerator

SDG Virtual Accelerator

A 3-month investment-readiness accelerator for social entrepreneurs from 65 countries, with the UN SDSN.

Refugees Integration Accelerator

Pre-accelerator

Refugees Integration Accelerator

Seven refugee-and-local teams built social enterprises on the island of Lesvos.

EY Impact

Mentorship

EY Impact

EY consultants mentor UK philanthropic organizations through an 8-week pro-bono program.

Cook Your Startup

Bootcamp

Cook Your Startup

500 teams across 16 cities trained through hands-on, collaborative-cooking bootcamps.

DESIRE

Curriculum

DESIRE

An innovative digital social-entrepreneurship curriculum for junior high-school students.

Design Thinking vs Bullying

Pre-accelerator

Design Thinking vs Bullying

High-schoolers use design thinking to build solutions against bullying, with Save the Children.

Countries reached

Teams accelerated

Languages we run in

Running programs since

Proof at scale

The world’s biggest programs run on Babele.

15,000 mentors

The world's largest pro-bono advisory program, supporting SDG startups across 100+ countries.

300 startups

A global open-innovation pipeline sourcing and co-developing agritech proofs of concept.

25,000 employees

A bank-wide intrapreneurship ecosystem engaging staff on social and environmental challenges.

What they say about us

What participants say.

An inspiring workshop that gives real structure to the startup process — it pushes you to think hard and move fast.

Dmitry Gourov

Dmitry Gourov

Business Strategist · UniCredit

Babele’s social entrepreneurship workshop was absolutely fantastic — practical, energising, and genuinely useful.

Simona Agoston

Simona Agoston

Social Entrepreneurship Professor · ASE Bucharest

I was deeply impressed by the quality of the Reinventing Organizations workshop and how clearly it was delivered.

Alexandra Coşcovelniţă

Alexandra Coşcovelniţă

Service Designer · E.ON

The most constructive and informative experience I’ve had on startups — I left Brussels with a clear plan.

Danai Zafeira

Danai Zafeira

EASO Manager · European Commission

An inspiring workshop that gives real structure to the startup process — it pushes you to think hard and move fast.

Dmitry Gourov

Dmitry Gourov

Business Strategist · UniCredit

Babele’s social entrepreneurship workshop was absolutely fantastic — practical, energising, and genuinely useful.

Simona Agoston

Simona Agoston

Social Entrepreneurship Professor · ASE Bucharest

I was deeply impressed by the quality of the Reinventing Organizations workshop and how clearly it was delivered.

Alexandra Coşcovelniţă

Alexandra Coşcovelniţă

Service Designer · E.ON

The most constructive and informative experience I’ve had on startups — I left Brussels with a clear plan.

Danai Zafeira

Danai Zafeira

EASO Manager · European Commission

An inspiring workshop that gives real structure to the startup process — it pushes you to think hard and move fast.

Dmitry Gourov

Dmitry Gourov

Business Strategist · UniCredit

Babele’s social entrepreneurship workshop was absolutely fantastic — practical, energising, and genuinely useful.

Simona Agoston

Simona Agoston

Social Entrepreneurship Professor · ASE Bucharest

I was deeply impressed by the quality of the Reinventing Organizations workshop and how clearly it was delivered.

Alexandra Coşcovelniţă

Alexandra Coşcovelniţă

Service Designer · E.ON

The most constructive and informative experience I’ve had on startups — I left Brussels with a clear plan.

Danai Zafeira

Danai Zafeira

EASO Manager · European Commission

An inspiring workshop that gives real structure to the startup process — it pushes you to think hard and move fast.

Dmitry Gourov

Dmitry Gourov

Business Strategist · UniCredit

Babele’s social entrepreneurship workshop was absolutely fantastic — practical, energising, and genuinely useful.

Simona Agoston

Simona Agoston

Social Entrepreneurship Professor · ASE Bucharest

I was deeply impressed by the quality of the Reinventing Organizations workshop and how clearly it was delivered.

Alexandra Coşcovelniţă

Alexandra Coşcovelniţă

Service Designer · E.ON

The most constructive and informative experience I’ve had on startups — I left Brussels with a clear plan.

Danai Zafeira

Danai Zafeira

EASO Manager · European Commission

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