About GEN Gibraltar

The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) has built its presence in Gibraltar around Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), the flagship campaign that each November mobilizes millions of people across roughly 200 countries and territories to celebrate and support those who start and scale new businesses. Gibraltar has been an active participant in the worldwide GEW celebration since 2017 and has deepened its engagement in the years since. The campaign continues to be coordinated locally by Jared Peralta, GEN Global Leader and Country Director for the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council. Jared plays an important role connecting GEN with local ecosystem leaders, raising the profile of GEW and other GEN initiatives, and helping lay the groundwork for a stronger, more coordinated entrepreneurial community. Jared’s leadership of GEN in Gibraltar was an outcome of an internship at Global Entrepreneurship Network in 2017.  

As the local ecosystem has matured, GEW in Gibraltar has become a platform for founders to test their ideas in front of the community's most experienced business leaders. In 2025, the campaign featured the “Build Local, Think Global” End of Year Pitch Battle, organized with Startup Grind Gibraltar, with the finals staged during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Ten local startups pitched Dragon's Den style aboard the Sunborn Gibraltar before a panel of five of Gibraltar's most respected business leaders, competing for a £5,000 first prize and a £1,000 runner-up prize. The competition was designed to reach beyond the finalists themselves — every applicant took part in preparatory sessions that readied them to pitch at their best, meeting mentors and gaining feedback and connections intended to shape the future of their businesses. 

Gibraltar's engagement with GEN also extends into the policy arena. HM Government of Gibraltar, through the Prime Minister's Office, is among the public authorities connected to GEN's Startup Nations community, appearing on the roster of Startup Nations Ministerial participating authorities — the network of governments that work with GEN to share and refine policies that make it easier to start and grow a business. This ministerial-level connection positions Gibraltar within a global conversation on regulatory innovation and entrepreneurship policy. 

GEN's ongoing mission in Gibraltar is to strengthen networks and relationships — connecting the territory's founders and public institutions to the knowledge, programs, and global community that help high-impact entrepreneurship take root and scale.