DOMINION recently wrapped up the third edition of BQUO, its entrepreneurship and talent-incubation program designed to develop technology-driven projects with a sustainability impact and to foster entrepreneurial capabilities within a global corporate environment. The call for applications for the fourth edition will open on May 5.
For six months, the participants experienced an immersive program in Bilbao, Spain, featuring personalized training, direct mentorship from the leadership team, and access to corporate resources to accelerate their initiatives. The closing event included presentations by startups and individual projects focused on the circular economy, process improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
Three of the startups that joined the program without prior incorporation plan to establish themselves in Vizcaya (the Basque province of Biscay), strengthening the region’s business roots.
In the words of Mikel Barandiaran, CEO of DOMINION: “We need talent capable of bringing vision and solving real problems. BQUO gives us access to people and projects with that profile, and it does so from Euskadi, connecting with our ecosystem and with what the company aims to build in the coming years.”
Patricia Berjón, director of BQUO, explained: “BQUO is a platform to take projects to the next level, where ideas evolve into future projects. It’s an environment for learning by doing, in touch with the real market, supported by top professionals and backed by a global company like DOMINION.”
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The third edition brought together four startups and two entrepreneurial talents from Euskadi, Catalonia, Peru, and Mexico, selected for their potential to develop sustainable and technologically advanced solutions with real industrial impact:
– SBS – Spouted Bed Solutions (Euskadi): HECO technology to validate CO2 capture routes and pyrolysis
– BioTrac (Catalonia): data-intelligence platform applied to the climate transition
– GreenDeal (Peru): transforms plastic waste from electronics into sustainable boards
– Witlab (Mexico): industrial cleaning products based on bionanotechnology and green chemistry
On the talent side, Nataly Mimbela (Peru) and Karen Díaz (Mexico) worked on SmartData, a digitization project currently in pilot phase.
