Launchpad
We are driven by a strong sense of mission: build five unicorn businesses by 2025
Launchpad is BP’s unicorn factory – we are building billion-dollar businesses to help BP tackle the dual energy challenge
We have invested time learning from the world’s best accelerators, venture capitalists and private equity and now believe Launchpad can reinvent world-class business building.
We run with the pace of a start-up, but without its chaos – so we can achieve extraordinary things on a massive, global scale. Within just a year we have three potential unicorns out in the market, with two close behind and another 20 under evaluation – from both within BP and from our external ecosystem.
When you join Launchpad, we will challenge you and invest in your professional development.
People stories
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Travelling the world with BP: Jaya’s storyAfter spending a few years at a ship management company in Singapore, Jaya joined BP Shipping and spent the next decade in various roles developing strong technical and leadership capabilities -
How does a NASA diver end up at BP? Virginia’s storyWorking as a diver at NASA’s Natural Buoyancy Laboratory, where astronauts train underwater in preparation for the zero gravity environments on board the International Space Station, Virginia Moore was pretty sure she had found her dream job. But after five years, she realised she wanted a career that would continually challenge her. It was then, thanks to her father, that she turned to BP -
Flexibility as a gasoline trader: Elise’s storyAlthough engineering is Elise’s ‘bread and butter’, an early career in finance made her realise that she could combine her engineering background with finance and find a job that suited her at BP