Babele

Babele is an online platform designed to facilitate mission-driven innovation programs and engage stakeholders. The platform offers a collaborative workspace for managing accelerators, conducting business modeling, providing online mentoring, enabling peer collaboration, facilitating community and event management, and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs). It caters to organizations of various sizes, including incubators, accelerators, corporates, universities, and governments. Professionals and industries such as incubator managers, mentors, impact innovators, startups, corporates, and governments can benefit from the features and functionalities provided by Babele.

Key Features

Application Funnel: Users can utilize the Application Funnel feature to launch competitions, evaluate and recruit program applicants, create applications, surveys, and questionnaires, set assessment criteria, schedule interviews, and perform bulk actions.

Learning System: The Learning System feature allows users to create a customized program curriculum or innovation framework. It enables the customization of learning tutorials with examples, best practices, and templates for capturing key deliverables. The system also facilitates knowledge transfer through virtual portfolios.

Expert Matchmaking: Babele offers an Expert Matchmaking feature that automatically matches experts and mentees based on specific requests and challenges. Users can post challenges and requests for help, and tag the skills required to move forward. The platform matches experts to these challenges, allowing them to book meetings and provide coaching notes.

Community Building: With the Community Building feature, users can drive engagement, centralize updates, and facilitate communication in one place. The platform provides a role-based CRM system to organize networks and assign roles and permissions to stakeholders. Users can create events that sync with invitees' calendars and easily schedule meetings using Zoom integration. Relevant updates, news, and content can be shared within the forum and dataroom.

Tracking & Reporting: Babele allows users to track teams' progress and visualize their achievements over time through a dashboard. The platform provides an overview of ventures' progress and milestones achieved throughout the program. Users can define key performance indicators (KPIs) and track them from the dashboard, with the option to download the portfolio for easy reporting. The platform also allows users to track additional data points of engagement from users and ventures involved in the program.

Collaborative Workspace: Babele provides a collaborative workspace for innovation programs, offering features such as a forum, data-room, wall for updates, and network. Startups have a professional profile managed by the core team, and users can apply to join the team as mentors. The team can share progress updates on the wall, manage contributors using a light CRM, access a shared database, and engage in ad-hoc discussions. Discussions can be created to exchange information with mentors and experts, and privacy settings can be customized.

Network Management: Babele allows users to organize their network, assign roles, and manage communication. Users can group stakeholders in circles such as startups, mentors, program managers, and hub leaders. Participants can be filtered by skills and allocated to the right venture based on the required skills. Users can send messages to individual users and groups, which will be delivered as emails.

Peer Collaboration: Babele provides a platform for gathering relevant challenges and fostering peer-to-peer collaboration. Public startup questions and requests are available in one place, creating a transparent repository of the ventures' key needs and challenges. Admins can archive resolved threads, keeping the active content focused while preserving key learning. The platform also offers a repository for files, forms, documents, videos, and other relevant program resources. Ventures have their own data-room to upload market research, financial plans, customer interviews, and more.

Announcements and Updates: Babele allows users to post announcements, centralize updates, and communication in one place. Relevant updates about the program, content, news, and opportunities can be shared with ventures and mentors. The feed gathers relevant news of the ventures that each user follows and supports. Participants receive platform and email notifications whenever there are news and reminders.

KPI Tracking: Babele allows users to define key performance indicators (KPIs) and consolidate the data in one organized place. The KPIs can be set from the administrator's panel, and ventures can post their KPIs from their company profile. Program admins can download the consolidated portfolio performance as a spreadsheet. Babele helps coordinate people effectively based on the results they achieve over time. The platform tracks the ventures' progress and the milestones completed throughout the program. Admins can monitor which mentors and experts contribute and provide feedback to each module.