Bihar Entrepreneurs Association (BEA) बिहार उद्यमी संघ

BEA founded in 2011 as a not for profit, voluntarily-run organization by youth to work passionately for Bihar and neighbouring states which lacked Entrepreneurial mindset; due to this Eastern India has been down on all major development indexes with very low per capita income. BEA works for Economic Empowerment of youth and women through Entrepreneurship in the state with largest youth population in India especially for the underprivileged and the grassroots. In a very challenging environment in 2013, BEA started working on creating and supporting Grass-root entrepreneurs and StartUps through Inspiration, Preparation and Execution. In the past eight years, it has conducted over 1 lac direct Interactions with Youth through 80 “StartUp Yatras” (a chain of workshops at grassroot level run like a Campaign from 2013) focusing all districts of Bihar and some in UP & Jharkhand. Working on the Hub & Spoke Model, the BEA attracts youth to Enterprising Zone, a 6,000-sq ft Internationally recognized Incubation cum Business Facilitation Centre, run completely through contribution and grants. Through this, BEA extend Free Hand-holding support to all potential entrepreneurs right from its Ideation until Execution and subsequent scale up. BEA’s work has found space in Academic and Research journals of global repute. BEA has received grants from Govt of Bihar, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt of India, Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India, International Labour organization and also US Dept of State. For Government of Bihar, BEA drafted the StartUp Policy and showed the way to provide underutilized Govt offices to grassroot startups. Meanwhile, BEA have created altogether 200+ recognized StartUps and over 3,000+ entrepreneurs right since our inception back in 2011 and completed 250 plus workshops. Through these works, BEA convinced the State Govt. at its Annual Bihar Entrepreneurship Summit in 2015 to create State venture capital Fund for startups and grass-root entrepreneurs.