The board, and the 1:1
A structured session with several entrepreneurs when something has to be decided, and one entrepreneur beside you once a month for everything in between.
Access to entrepreneurship
The decisions that matter
are not taken alone.
Réseau Entreprendre Bruxelles puts an experienced entrepreneur beside a Brussels founder every month, for free, because they volunteer.
Who they are
Peers, not consultants.
REB starts where most support stops, after the company exists. Its work is to pass on the know-how and the experience of business leaders who have already run one, through exchange between peers rather than advice from above.
What the members have in common is having been on the ground. What they bring is an independent view with nothing riding on it. You arrive to see your own situation more clearly, and you stay to help someone else decide.
- Who it is for
- Entrepreneurs in Brussels, after the company is founded
- The support
- An experienced entrepreneur, once a month, as a volunteer
- And money
- A loan of honour up to 50,000 euros, at zero interest and with no personal guarantee
Why we fund them
Loneliness is a business risk.
Raising money, changing course, hiring, getting through a crisis. These are the decisions that carry a company, and a first-time founder usually takes them alone. REB exists so that they do not have to, and its method has been tested in ten countries.
Pulse funds the organisation as a whole. The aim is to strengthen entrepreneurship in Brussels through peer support of real quality, and to keep the connections inside the city's ecosystem strong.
What they run
Four formats, one question each.
Clubs and flash mentoring
Peers facing the same stakes, to move up a level together, and short unfiltered opinions when you need to get unstuck today.
The loan of honour
Up to 50,000 euros at zero interest, with no personal guarantee, always alongside bank financing so that it works as leverage.
In their words
Someone who lived it.
At REB we found the support we needed. Every month an entrepreneur who gives his time voluntarily guides us, and for us, with no experience and no diploma, his advice is priceless. The community taught us that problems which look insurmountable have usually been solved by someone before.
In pictures
The community at work.
Go further
Join, or give your time.
REB takes founders looking for support and business leaders willing to give it. Their site has both doors.
More partners
Others we fund.
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Free, anonymous psychological support for self-employed people under pressure.
To nurture the entrepreneurial culture