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Screen and understand startup activity that can impact your product or service offer
Open Innovation platform
Better organise, monitor and expand your relationships with startups.
Find and evaluate relevant start-ups as part of your open innovation strategy. Think of Startup as your CRM for innovation. Place selected start-ups in a configurable pipeline. Manage and track progress and add your own data or acquired databases into a secure system.
Startup is specifically designed to help businesses, enterprises, organizations and institutions to manage their relationships with agile start-ups, bridging the gap between start-up and established players.
Why Should You Use Open Innovation Platform Startup?
Work with relevant startups
Search for relevant startups and see contact information, financial data, product descriptions, technology choices and press all in one place.
Manage deal flows
Engage with start-ups in projects. Assign tasks, evaluate performance and monitor progress within your innovation and development teams.
Expand your network
Create sharable links to send out to potential startups inviting them to participate. Evaluate applications within the application.
Enable teamwork
Keep ahead on projects. Share updates and assign tasks to colleagues to manage multiple projects and pipeline, keeping projects on track.
Startup Search
View summarized overviews, automated data aggregation and notifications. Enhance your search with Sophia, our AI assistant, to find information even quicker. All designed to help you find the startup you need.
Add to pipeline
When selected, all relevant information on their background and offer can be added to your deal flow pipeline within the product and circulated for further evaluation.
Manage deal-flow
Organise, review and follow up with your network of selected start-ups. Assign tasks, evaluate performance and track feedback. Monitor impact and progress on a built in KPI dashboard and manage investment opportunities through our product.
Challenge links
Create open submission opportunities that can be shared as a single link. Allowing start-ups and disruptors that don’t yet feature in your CRM to submit products and services.
Dashboards and reports
Monitor and report on progress on searchable dashboards that allow you to track the evolution of your portfolio of start-ups. Measure and follow KPIs and share the data and results.
Invite multiple start-up program managers to take part in searching, evaluation and deal activity. Share updates and plan next steps with your team in the application.
Adjust and reset evaluation criteria depending on progress. Include and respond to the views of multiple team members. All within a configurable system.
Organise projects with start-ups by topic, technology, by innovation or development stage. Set notifications that trigger news and progress updates.
Get a full overview of a start-ups activity to date, with steps undertaken and completed, contact points and feedback. Be able to evaluate your funnel within the application.
Add additional information including internal and external experts to enhance understanding, de-risk evaluation and connect to the right people.
Create a specific project based on an identified business need enabling you to source a solution from a start-up in a related or different sector, saving time and money.
Link to multiple systems including Crunchbase, Slack, Office 365 and many, many more.
The interface works across break points, ensuring the application can be used on desktop and tablet with a mobile app too.
We can help with IP management if your solution needs to be patented and protected with Questel.
Add users, departments, teams and offices across the world, connecting talent wherever they are.
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Yes, we work with significant industry leaders with their corporate venture teams to help whom track projects, deal flow and investment decisions.
Yes, our platform is ISO27001 certified. Your data is secure.
Yes, our Innovation Management Platform has been designed to be modular and infinitely flexible.
The platform is used by businesses, enterprises, institutions and organizations. By innovation teams, scouting teams, open innovation managers and within digital transformation projects.
Yes, Gen-AI is embedded in Startup, meet Sophia, our game changer GPT assistant.