Our Story
BEC (Birmingham Enterprise Community) is an award-winning organisation that supports a global community of entrepreneurs and businesses through a range of services, programmes and initiatives that support these entrepreneurs from concept/idea phase through to creating a startup all the way through to supporting high-growth scaleups.
We’re successful entrepreneurs using our experience to help new entrepreneurs in the West Midlands and around the world to leap further and faster from thinking big to doing big, by providing training in everything from raising finance to building relationships to initiating sustainability.
BEC Bigger Leaps, Fewer Steps
Our Values
The work of Birmingham Enterprise Community is designed and delivered around four key community values. These values influence both how we work as an organisation and how we work with the entrepreneurs in our communities:
Entrepreneurship is for everyone
Anyone from anywhere could be an entrepreneur and should have access to engaging in entrepreneurial activities
Nothing is impossible
No idea is too big or ambitious. We work to find solutions and remove barriers rather than focusing on things being ‘too difficult’.
Collaboration NOT Competition
We work in collaboration with the whole ecosystem and encourage our entrepreneurs to work together.
Learning is for life
Learning is a continuous process that never ends. Whether just starting out or a veteran entrepreneur, there are always new things to learn and new ways to see the world.
Our Impact
BEC was created as a social enterprise which means it is an organisation established to generate social impact. The social impact BEC exists to create is to empower emerging entrepreneurs to help them to build exciting and innovative businesses that are able to solve the problems of the world.
Our Team
Daniel Evans
CEO
Omran Al Habbal
COO
Alex Balderstone
Venture Director
Bart Dalton II
Board Member
Maddie Booth
Sustainability & Innovation Lead
Reimagine Entrepreneurship
BEC (Birmingham Enterprise Community) is a new breed of entrepreneurial community. One which looks to work alongside individuals, other organisations and institutions towards common goals rather than individual pursuits. We are taking the Midlands Startup ecosystem to the next level to help not only start businesses but to get them scaling up too.
Creating a community where collaboration births benefit for all.
Strategic & Global Partners
Awards & Recognitions
66M+
Raised
200+
Businesses Supported
14+
Countries