What do you need?

At BIG Bilbao, Bilbao Ekintza’s entrepreneurship center, we will support you throughout the process of creating and starting up your company. You will receive all the help you need so that your project becomes a reality and goes to market assuming the least possible risk.

We offer you a personalized support service: Starting up a business is not easy and often lonely. That is why we help you to analyze your idea and give shape to your project during the time you need, in a personalized and close way, so that it becomes a reality as soon as possible. We accompany you in all stages of the implementation of your project.

We prepare you to manage your business: Learning to undertake is the key. Not only will you learn how to manage your future business, but we will also provide you with continuous training so that you acquire the main skills and tools you will need to achieve business success.

We inform you of resources to undertake: To save time and distractions, and that all your time is focused on the implementation of your business, we will inform you promptly of all resources available to you as an entrepreneur (grants and subsidies, spaces, workshops or competitions).

We put you in touch with the BIG entrepreneurial community: Get to know other projects similar to yours, be inspired by the experiences of other people who have passed through BIG Bilbao and participate in all the events we organize that will be useful for your project.

And also:

Strategic Sectors for Bilbao: We are singularly committed to company programs and projects linked to Bilbao’s intelligent specialization strategy in the following strategic sectors:

• Advanced Services
• Digital Economy
• Cultural and Creative Industries
• Tourism

We are Entrepreneur Service Point (ESP): It means that we are authorized to digitally manage the incorporation of a new company.

Spaces to undertake: We have a network of centers, called “Auzo Factorys”, which offer the possibility of accessing a space to start your business in very advantageous conditions.

If you want more information, you can contact us by following this link, selecting “Entrepreneurship-Big Bilbao” area.

In Bilbao Ekintza we support SMEs and businesses in Bilbao to improve their competitiveness, launching new projects or business lines and improving their sales or business management in general. To this end, we provide companies with experts who attend to them individually, offering them, at no cost to the SME, hours of advice in which to work on aspects such as; financing, marketing and commercialization, window dressing, human resources, e-commerce, commercial and Internet positioning, computerization and digitalization of the business, etc.

On the other hand, we also inform about aid and subsidy programs from different institutions and organizations, in a comprehensive way, including those aimed at facilitating or encouraging the hiring of people and incorporating talent into companies.

If you want more information, you can contact us by following this link, selecting “Business” area.

Bilbao Ekintza provides SMEs and businesses with experts in various areas of the company to boost its competitive positioning. This service of individualized advice works in areas such as; commercial, economic-financial, technological or human resources marketing.

If you want more information, you can contact us by following this link, selecting “Business” area.

Bilbao Ekintza has a Mentoring programme aimed at companies and businesses in Bilbao, which have been in business for more than three years and are at a moment of change in their business model, change or reflection of their strategy, etc. A mentor can bring to your business new points of view, new approaches, references and their own experience.

When the time comes to make strategic decisions for your business or company, it is always good to have someone with a lot of experience by your side. That is what we make possible from Bilbao Ekintza with the Mentoring Program.

Mentoring consists of a process of personalized accompaniment aimed at evaluating the alternatives for action, making the best decisions and implementing them. It is channeled through individualized meetings, online and/or in person, with a fortnightly frequency and during a period of about eight months.

If you want more information, you can contact us by following this link, selecting “Business” area.

Local companies: Natural or legal persons of a private nature, with a work center and economic activity in the territorial area of the municipality of Bilbao and who meet the following requirements:

• Be up to date with your tax and social security obligations
• Not to have obtained nor to obtain from another Administration or public or private entities any subsidy or aid, excluding the Social Security bonuses to formalize the hiring(s) framed in this call
• Not being penalized or administratively sanctioned

Bilbao Ekintza, through its Business Development and Employment area, organizes actions in different formats aimed at companies located in Bilbao and at no cost to them, such as; Webinars, workshops, forums, etc.

The theme of the training actions covers a wide range of issues, such as Economic-financial, digital transformation, mentoring, strategy, innovation, user experience, commercial, technology, etc.

Some of these actions are also associated with access to specific programs of individualized or personalized advice for businesses and companies in Bilbao by the best professionals in each field with which Bilbao Ekintza collaborates.