The SaaS that puts the power of innovation in everyone’s hands
RebelBase harnesses the power of people who know what’s broken, by guiding them as they build new solutions using our B2B2C software-as-a-service platform. Garden variety open innovation platforms give people a place to put their ideas. That’s great for those who already know how to size a market or test a prototype. For everyone else, RebelBase shows you how.
Our “project builder” modules guide teams as they refine new solutions, and engage communities around them, through an accessible digital experience. Because we don’t believe those who have MBAs or know how to answer an RFP have some special monopoly on what should happen next. Whether we’re talking about employees, students, or citizens, the people in your organizations already know what’s broken. RebelBase turns them into powerful agents for fixing those problems and seizing those opportunities, so you can compete. Subscribers use the platform to run courses, cohorts and competitions, instruct students and employees in the skills they need, and measure engagement and success. Instructors and administrators get tools that make the process plug-and-play, as they conduct workshops and classes for hybrid and distance learning formats, evaluate submissions, and engage mentors and supporters.
Our Customers
As the great resignation advances, and organizations face seismic shifts in how we work, organizations subscribe to engage talent, connect their people, build capacity, and spur innovation. We started with a global university network, which has now jumped to the next subscription tier, as we’ve added a mentorship program launched by chambers of commerce in five countries, and are now expanding to a program for African entrepreneurs. In the first year since our closed beta, subscriber organizations made RebelBase available to 2500 students, citizens, and employees in 13 countries: please see RebelBase Product and Case Studies for more details. RebelBase’s subscribers range from sole proprietors through MBM Africa, a student at any of the universities using RebelBase through OSUN, one of the European chambers using it to revitalize economies through SpinTeams, or a C-level executive at an employer like RiseBoro.
CO-FOUNDERS
Alejandro Juárez Crawford, co-founder & CEO, brings 20+ years experience as a consultant, educator, and entrepreneur developing programs, tools and methodology that break open access to the future and bring bottom-up innovation to companies, schools, and communities. Tuba Erbil, co-founder & COO, brings 10+ years experience driving software and data teams from Morgan Stanley to FreshDirect honed her systematic approach to operations and data analytics for integrated technology teams. Our management team brings diverse leadership in tech, content, business development, marketing, education, UX/UI, and social entrepreneurship.
Alejandro Juárez Crawford, co-founder & CEO, leads RebelBase, the SaaS equipping students, employees and citizens to build solutions of their own. He serves as Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Bard MBA in Sustainability. Previously, he led boutique consultancy Acceleration Group. He earned his BA at Cornell and his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Crawford led RebelBase as it built and successfully commercialized its library of educational modules, cloud-based interactive tools, and state-of-the-art methodology. In 2020-2021, his research has expanded to university systems from Bangladesh to Kyrgyzstan, through Bard’s new course sequence for changemakers supported by the Open Society University Network. He writes and speaks widely on expanding access to innovation, and keynotes events such as Erasmus+ ISYEC and Europe’s Towards Collaborative Practice. Recent publications include “An Ecosystem Framework for Credentialing Entrepreneurs,” from the Research Triangle Institute, and a chapter in the Federal Reserve’s Investing in America’s Workforce (Upjohn, 2018). In 2020 he co-won the Roddenberry Award to create a documentary about game-changing initiatives developed using the RebelBase platform.
Tuba Erbil, co-founder & COO, develops organization-wide systems and processes, manages capacity allocation, and lays the groundwork for advanced analytics capabilities for RebelBase. Throughout her career, Tuba has used data to guide decision-making and to power innovation at startups and growing firms. Prior to RebelBase, Tuba worked as a senior business analyst for FreshDirect’s fast-growing B2B division, where she honed her talents for using data to analyze impact, spur innovation, and assess ROI. Previously, she managed software operations and teams for CapGemini and Morgan Stanley. Early in her career, she gained entrepreneurial experience at August Ninth Analysis, an analytics company serving the chemical mixing industry. Tuba has masters degrees from Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business and NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, and degrees in chemical and industrial engineering from Turkey’s elite Bogazici University.