The Bulgarian Entrepreneurship Center is a public benefit foundation established in 2018 with the aim of encouraging and supporting entrepreneurs in Bulgaria through training, mentoring, and financing programs, thereby contributing to the economic development of the country.

The foundation works with resources from Silicon Valley (a center of high technology and innovation in California), and its projects are in the fields of education, business, healthcare, and culture.

Among the most successful initiatives of the Bulgarian Entrepreneurship Center are “Teenovator” (a program for entrepreneurs in high schools), “Master in Entrepreneurship” (a university master’s program in entrepreneurship), “My own business institute” (a family business program of Santa Clara University, California), “Pragmatic marketing” (a specialized course for top entrepreneurs), and others.

Among the lecturers of the foundation are world-renowned names such as Norman Winarsky, creator of “SIRI” (the voice assistant of the Apple I-Phone), Michael Marvin, creator of “Tech Valley” and mentor of over 100 startups, Jamie Wilson, champion in the American football “San Francisco 49ers” and successful entrepreneur in sports.

Partners of the Bulgarian Center for Entrepreneurship are some of the most successful Bulgarians in the technology sector – Dafina Toncheva, partner in the fund “US Venture Partners”, Bogomil Balkansky, vice president at “Google” and Vasil Terziev, founder of the IT company and academy “Telerik”.

Director of the foundation is Mrs. Lilly Drumeva-O’Reilly, famous journalist and host of the show “New Horizons with Lilly” on Darik Radio.

The mission of the Bulgarian Center for Entrepreneurship is to create a “bridge between Bulgaria and the USA” for the exchange of knowledge, experience and resources.