start up

Screen and understand startup activity that can impact your product or service offer

Work with emerging startups as part of your open innovation strategy. Embrace our venture clienting operating system empowering your development teams to scout and screen activity. Identify and form relationships with those that matter with all insight, information and deal status in one place.
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Startup overview

innosabi 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.
Work with relevant startups
Search for relevant startups and see contact information, financial data, product descriptions, technology choices and press all in one place.  

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Manage deal flows
Engage with start-ups in projects. Assign tasks, evaluate performance and monitor progress within your innovation and development teams.

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Expand your network
Create sharable links to send out to potential startups inviting them to participate. Evaluate applications within the application.  

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Enable teamwork
Keep ahead on projects. Share updates and assign tasks to colleagues to manage multiple projects and pipeline, keeping projects on track.

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Better organise, monitor and expand your relationships with startups.

Find and evaluate relevant start-ups as part of your open innovation strategy. Think of innosabi 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.
Search

Startup search

View summarized overviews, automated data aggregation and notifications. All designed to help you find the startup you need.

pipeline

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.

deal-flow

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.

challenges

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.

Reporting

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.

Additional features

Build and expand your network. Empower your teams with a specialised and configurable CRM and manage your startup program efficiently.
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Ensure collaboration
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.
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Customize evaluation criteria
Adjust and reset evaluation criteria depending on progress. Include and respond to the views of multiple team members. All within a configurable system.
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Manage projects
Organise projects with start-ups by topic, technology, by innovation or development stage. Set notifications that trigger news and progress updates.
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A master overview
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.
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Map expert networks
Add additional information including internal and external experts to enhance understanding, de-risk evaluation and connect to the right people.
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30%
Create needs based projects
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.

Configure your installation

The innosabi Startup product has been built to be flexible and configurable to fit with how you like to work.
API integration

Link to multiple systems including Crunchbase, Slack, Office 365 and many, many more.

Responsive interface

The interface works across break points, ensuring the application can be used on desktop and tablet with a mobile app too.

Connect to IP

We can help with IP management if your solution needs to be patented and protected with Questel, our parent brand.

Grows with you

Add users, departments, teams and offices across the world, connecting talent wherever they are.

FAQs

Questions frequently asked by customers and clients about innosabi Startup and what it can deliver.

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I work in a corporate venture team, can I use startup?
Yes, we work with significant industry leaders with their corporate venture teams to help whom track projects, deal flow and investment decisions.  
Is the platform secure?
Yes, our platform is ISO27001 certified. Your data is secure.
If I start with innosabi Startup can I add other applications afterwards?
Yes, the innosabi Innovation Management Platform has been designed to be modular and infinitely flexible.  
Who uses this platform?
The platform is used by businesses, enterprises, institutions and organizations. By innovation teams, scouting teams, open innovation managers and within digital transformation projects.  
Is AI in innosabi Startup?
Yes, Gen-AI is embedded in innosabi Startup, meet Sophia, our game changer GPT assistant.

Customer testimonials

What innosai customers say about our platform, how it drives success and what it helps deliver to our clients.
Great for crowdsourcing and engaging employees rather than them playing a more passive role. The most useful thing about innosabi is the Campaigns feature. I think that is the USP of the platform as it helps to create an effective idea management setup. Though, I would love to have a more in-depth training for the same to understand all the features. The toolbox functionality is a step in a good direction, and hope that develops better and faster in the future. And definitely the CSM support is great and super helpful!
User in Hospital & Health Care
Company in the Hospital and Health Care Sector
Partnership for more than 10 years for different customers and our own platform: State of the art technology, very supporting team, always searching for the best solution, easy of use, ease of implemantation
Anke G. Business Owner
Anke G. - Business Owner
innosabi is a true partner: innosabi's Insight platform is fairly easy to get going and use immediately, although you know you are missing features as you can see the power of the program they've built. However, you never need to worry because their customer service is top notch - quick response times, issues always resolved, and happy to go above/beyond to find a solution for you, no matter what you ask. The system is also easy to integrate into your own SSO platforms which makes using it seamless and easy for others in your organization.
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User in the Food & Beverages Industry
Great product & support from the team: We have been using the Innosabi Community and we're very happy with the product, as well as with the features it includes. The personal treatment is the best, with great and quick support from the team whenever we need it. They are very professional and caring.
Anonymous User - Hospital and Health Care
User in the Hospital and Health Care Sector
A Game-Changer for Innovation Management! The intuitive interface makes it easy to share and evaluate ideas, while the crowd-sourcing and co-creation tools harness collective intelligence from all stakeholders. The customer support is extremely helpful and the implementation process was very quick.
Anon User in Industrial Engineering
Anon User in Industrial Engineering
Our previous Excel tracking table was neither user-friendly nor collaborative. The data was not updated automatically, unlike with Power BI, and we did not have the same level of granularity that we have now with innosabi. Additionally, our sheet was not standardized. Managing an Excel spreadsheet with more than 30 people made it difficult to maintain cleanliness. Therefore, innosabi was the perfect tool to meet our needs.
FDJ Product Innovation Manager
Product Innovation Manager, Française des Jeux
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AI is at our core

Machine learning and AI are integral components of our products. Benefit from accelerated AI enabled searches and insight, AI assisted suggestions, submissions and processes. All embedded within the innosabi innovation management platform.

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