Grupo Bimbo Launches the Largest Food Business Accelerator in Latin America

Grupo Bimbo, the world’s leading bakery company, launched Bimbo Open Door, aimed at seeking, developing, and investing in startups and scale-ups in the bakery and snacks sector. 

The call to participate in Bimbo Open Door is available to startups and scale-ups dedicated to the baking and production of snacks with a presence in Latin America or with a plan that contemplates their expansion to that market, which will be able to register their projects until next August 22nd.

Those interested in participating must have a validated product, annual sales above USD 300,000, and availability to participate in the program. In addition, as part of Grupo Bimbo’s sustainability strategy, the startups must be aligned with at least one of the following pillars:

• Nutritional Diversity: baking or snack projects, either sweet or salty, made with clean label recipes or with inputs of vegetable origin, such as plants, whole grains or similar.

• Environmental Care: baking or snack projects, either sweet or salty, whose elaboration considers a sustainable supply of raw materials, such as regenerative agriculture, among others; or those projects that stand out for having waste control programs, reduction of carbon emissions and post-consumption actions, such as recycling or circular economy.

• Impact on the Community: baking or snack projects, either sweet or savory, whose portfolios have a brand with purpose or a social benefit program for foundations, and communities, among others.

To accelerate Bimbo Open Door projects, those startups and scale-ups selected as finalists will be part of a hybrid program (face-to-face/digital) of 16 weeks. There, they will receive mentoring from executives and managers from several areas of Grupo Bimbo, as well as the opportunity to know the bakeries and innovation centers of the company to enrich their projects.

All this, to prepare their project proposal for the Demo Day, the final stage of the program, where they will present to a forum of company executives the results of their work, looking to collaborate with the company through the development of a pilot, an investment, or a commercial alliance.

Bimbo Open Door will reach more than 20 countries in the Latin America region, including Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina.