What UBI Global does

UBI Global is an international membership organization founded in 2013 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, that provides intelligence, benchmarking, rankings, and learning services to startup incubators, accelerators, and innovation professionals. The company has built a network of 1,000+ member organizations across 90+ countries and has assessed 1,500+ incubators and accelerators over 12+ years of operation. Its product portfolio centers on four interconnected offerings: UBI Benchmark (assessment tool measuring impact and performance excellence), UBI Ranking (international evaluation and world ranking program), UBI Academy (resource and learning hub for leadership development), and the Incubator Portal (member platform currently in development). Membership products include the Incubator Plan (organizational, €979/year) and Professional Plan (individual, €99/month or €990/year), with one-time Ranking Registration at €450 for non-members.

The business is founder-led by CEO & Co-founder Ali Amin, with Lars-Henrik Friis Molin as Co-founder and Chairman, and operates with a small team of 1-10 employees. Go-to-market combines direct online sales via the company website with Stripe payment processing, inside sales consultation via 'Book a call', an online application process for organizational membership, and a community-led motion leveraging peer referrals across the international network. Marketing channels include content marketing through an editorial blog, email newsletter subscription, community-driven peer learning, and events including weekly Office Hours on Zoom and the annual ranking cycle. The company has no disclosed external venture capital backing beyond a 2013 founding partnership with Talent Venture Group.

Recent strategic activity includes the October 2025 launch of restructured membership plans with bundled UBI Academy access, expansion of AI-focused content and tooling including an 'Ava Ai' virtual assistant, and ongoing development of the Incubator Portal. Customer concentration is highly distributed across university-linked, public, private, and corporate incubator programs globally, with no single dominant account. Revenue is not publicly disclosed.

Name

UBI Global

Legal name

UBI Global Sweden

Website

https://ubi-global.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

UBI Global is a Stockholm-based international membership organization founded in 2013 that provides benchmarking, world rankings, and learning services to 1,000+ startup incubators and accelerators across 90+ countries through subscription-based Incubator and Professional membership plans.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Incubator Plan Membership: Annual organizational membership for startup incubators and accelerators providing access to benchmarking tools, ranking participation, UBI Academy seats, and member portal. Billed yearly at €979.
2. Professional Plan Membership: Individual membership for innovation professionals and ecosystem enablers, available as annual (€990 with 2 free months) or monthly subscription (€99). Provides access to learning hub, resource library, and UBI Academy seat.
3. UBI Ranking Registration: One-time fee for non-members to participate in the 2025 rankings. Free for existing Incubator Plan members.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

UBI Global is an international membership organization that provides benchmarking tools, world rankings, industry intelligence, and peer-driven learning for startup incubators, accelerators, and innovation professionals. It sells organizational and individual memberships that grant access to its UBI Benchmark assessment tool, UBI Ranking evaluation program, and UBI Academy learning hub.

Product overview

UBI Global operates as an international membership organization offering a unified platform with four interconnected core products: UBI Benchmark (impact and performance assessment tool), UBI Ranking (world rankings for incubators and accelerators), UBI Academy (resource and learning hub), and the Incubator Portal (member portal). The organization offers two membership tiers—Incubator Plan for organizations and Professional Plan for individual innovation professionals—providing benchmarking data, performance rankings, and learning opportunities designed to empower excellence in the global startup ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UBI Benchmark: Assessment tool for Impact & Performance Excellence for startup incubators and accelerators.
• UBI Ranking
• UBI Academy
• Incubator Plan
• Professional Plan

Products and services

• UBI Benchmark Assessment tool for startup incubators and accelerators to define, measure, and communicate their program's impact and performance excellence, with data visualization dashboard capabilities. Included in the Incubator Plan membership.
• UBI Ranking International evaluation and recognition program (World Ranking) that assesses startup incubators and accelerators across dimensions including value to client startups, ecosystem impact, and program attractiveness, benchmarking organizations against peer groups since 2013.
• UBI Academy Resource and learning hub for innovation professionals offering masterclasses, playbooks, guides, publications, reports, office hours, industry insights, training and certification, AI-for-incubators resources, incubator profiles, and ecosystem mapping tools.
• Incubator Plan Organizational membership for startup incubators and accelerators providing access to the Incubator Portal, industry intelligence and research, events, free UBI Ranking registration, a full UBI Benchmark license, training and certification eligibility, and 3 seats to UBI Academy. Priced at €979/year.
• Professional Plan Individual membership for innovation professionals and ecosystem enablers providing access to the member directory, full resource library, publications, masterclasses, and 1 seat to UBI Academy. Available at €99/month or €990/year with 2 free months.
• Incubator Portal Member portal for incubator membership providing data archives, centralized team management, and access to UBI Benchmark and UBI Ranking tools. Currently under development with launch pending.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 50% of top accelerator graduates survive a decade
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Startup Genome: Publishes the Global Startup Ecosystem Report and ranks startup ecosystems worldwide. Most directly comparable to UBI in combining data, benchmarking, and rankings for the global startup support community.

Broad incumbents

• Dealroom: Global startup and venture intelligence platform serving investors, governments, and accelerators. Comparable to UBI's data-driven intelligence layer for the startup ecosystem, though broader in scope and investor-focused.
• Crunchbase: Major startup and company intelligence database used widely by accelerators and ecosystem builders. Adjacent to UBI's benchmarking and ecosystem intelligence proposition, with a much broader customer base.
• YPO (Young Presidents' Organization): Premier peer membership organization for senior executives with benchmarking, learning, and forum components. Structurally analogous to UBI's professional membership and peer-driven learning model, though at a different executive tier.

Emerging players

• Seedstars: Operates a global network of accelerators and competitions focused on emerging markets. Overlaps with UBI's international incubator/accelerator footprint and learning community angle, though Seedstars is more program-operator than benchmarker.
• F6S: Global community platform for startups, accelerators, and investors. Comparable to UBI's community-led GTM and global reach, though F6S is broader (jobs, deals, applications) versus UBI's benchmarking focus.
• Village Capital: Runs peer-selected accelerator programs and publishes ecosystem research. Overlaps with UBI's peer-driven learning and benchmarking ethos and shares the focus on underserved founder segments.
• StartupBlink: Global startup ecosystem map and ranking platform with country and city-level indices. Comparable to UBI in combining data, ranking, and ecosystem intelligence, though StartupBlink focuses on geographies rather than individual programs.

Regional players

• Endeavor: Global high-impact entrepreneur network with benchmarking, selection, and peer-learning components. Comparable to UBI's curation/recognition model, though focused on individual founders rather than incubation programs.

Others

• Startupbootcamp: Global accelerator operator with multiple vertical programs. Useful adjacency for UBI's ecosystem mapping and benchmarking use cases, though Startupbootcamp competes as a program rather than a benchmarking platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ubiglobal
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/3232282

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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