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Fund a generation of builders.

Reach young entrepreneurs in markets you could never enter alone, with impact you can actually measure.

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What one partnership reaches

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0local delivery members on the ground
0kyoung people supported every year
Why partner with YBI

The reach of a global network, the trust of a 25-year record.

Global reach, delivered locally

One relationship connects you to 66 member organisations across 85 countries, each rooted in the market it serves.

A model with the evidence

Twenty-five years of data on what actually helps a young business survive its first, hardest years.

Return you can measure

Every contribution is tracked to real outcomes: businesses started, jobs created and founders reached.

0+ businesses backed each year

Find the way that fits you

Three routes into the network. Every one is built around what you want to achieve.

For corporates and brands

Put your reach, products and people to work for young founders, and reach emerging markets through partners who already know them.

  • Employee mentoring and skills programmes at scale
  • Access to youth entrepreneurs across 85 countries
  • Reporting your board and customers can trust
Corporate mentoring

For foundations and funders

Back a proven model at the scale philanthropy needs, with the evidence to show exactly where your money went.

  • Fund whole programmes or a single country
  • Independent measurement of jobs and businesses
  • A seat in the Africa Collaborative and beyond
Foundation partnership meeting

For delivery members

Run youth entrepreneurship where you are, and gain the tools, standards and global peers to do it better.

  • Shared curriculum, tools and quality standards
  • Learning exchanges with members worldwide
  • Access to the network's funding relationships
Delivery member team
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In their words
YBI let us reach founders in markets we could never have entered alone, with impact we could actually put in front of the board.
Priya Nair Global Head of Community Impact, illustrative partner

Partners who already build with us

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Start in one country or manyFrom a single-market pilot to a global programme.
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