Our Startup Sprint Mentors
With expertise spanning across industries and stages of growth, our mentors provide valuable insight into launching your startup and positioning yourself in the market.
Female Founders Scholarship
BEC is proud to offer 3 scholarships every month to aspiring female entrepreneurs interested in participating in the Startup Sprint Launch programme.
As part of the Female Founders Scholarship, recipients will be paired with trailblazing women who will mentor and pass on their expertise as experience to Founders.
Build your idea with Startup Sprint
Application: Open – Accepted on a rolling basis
Next Sprint start date: Multiple dates available.
Location: Virtual
Duration: 1 month
Fee: £300 per Startup*
*The value of the Sprint is over £1000 and includes savings to 15 startup softwares and services and is marked down £700 to support our Founders during the pandemic.
“I cannot overstress how important entrepreneurship is to the future of this region and if you are a student here thinking of setting a business up this is simply the only place to do it!”
Honoured to have been selected for the female founder scholarship on the BEC Startup Sprint! […] The mentoring sessions were so insightful and have helped us tackle the important questions we have as a startup during this unprecedented time.
When applying, I questioned how relevant it would be for me as an artist […] but it turns out is super relevant and so, so valuable. It’s really enabled me to shift my perspective to seeing my art as a business and I now have a clear path of how I’m going to make those steps in getting there.
BEC has been like no other, the support, advice, and hospitality exceeded our expectiations. The accessibility of so may resoources right at your fingertips with the way BEC operates creates a truly unique experience. BEC helps you delve deep into your business & take action so that you can get the results you want.”
FORWARD will provide an Innovative platform to foster innovation, collaboration and increased opportunities for early-stage ventures that with to take their business to the next level”
I did this programme at the start of lockdown when due to theatre closures, I lost 90% of my business. Thankfully, that has been recovered in part due to the mindset change the programme helped me with. cc funders Innovate UK”
Birmingham Enterprise Community’s FORWARD accelerator programme is exactly what our region needs. Birmingham is the major youngest city ion Europe, with under 25s accounting for nearly 40% of the population, so this is fantastic initiative to help fresh, young minds to succeed in business and entrepreneurship.”
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