Babele

White-labeled innovation programs

We design and run white-labelled innovation and entrepreneurship programs.

Accelerators, incubators and innovation initiatives — combining methodology, workshops, mentors, events and one platform.

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ON THE GROUND

Real moments from the programs, workshops and events we run around the world.

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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.

HOW IT WORKS

How our programs work.

One coordinated program, four moving parts — watch it flow from first design to day-to-day delivery.

01

Design

Program architecture, curriculum and roadmap.

02

Deliver

Workshops, learning content and mentorship.

03

Engage

Community experiences, events and experts.

04

Manage

Everything runs through the Babele platform.

SIGNATURE WORKSHOPS

Signature Workshops.

These workshops can run on their own or slot into a larger accelerator — online or in person.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Community Events.

High-energy formats that bring a whole community together around innovation.

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Demo Days

Cohorts pitch to investors, partners and the public to close a program.

Startup Weekends

48-hour sprints that turn raw ideas into working prototypes and teams.

Bootcamps

Intensive, hands-on training blocks on a focused method or skill.

Ideathons

Open challenges that surface and shape ideas from a whole community.

SELECTED PROGRAMS

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.

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 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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