Directory of Innovation Firms

Cantina

Description: Cantina is an innovation consultancy headquartered in Boston. For over 15 years, we’ve partnered with visionary business leaders to challenge the status quo, reimagine products & services for a customer-centric age, and drive new growth and efficiencies for our client’s organizations. What we’ve learned throughout our history is that innovation is not magic. It’s the result of disciplined craft and methodology that bridges the gap between design thinking and design doing. By applying a creative, multidisciplinary approach, Cantina helps our clients create and sustain innovation, transform business-as-usual, and improve the lives of customers and employees. For more information, visit cantina.co

Office: 100 Summer Street – Boston, MA

Website :  www.cantina.co

Contact:  Email

Twitter: @cantinac

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients:  Cantina is a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups in all major industries, collaborating on projects in health & life science, financial services, insurance, retail, sports innovation, AR/VR, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Learn more about we design and build innovative solutions for our clients.

Expertise:

Experience Strategy: Define a human-centered strategy that sets you apart and creates a roadmap for success with your customers.

Service Design: Design and implement meaningful digital and physical touch points across your customer journey.

Experience Design: Craft an unforgettable user experience that delivers what your customers want and need.

Customer Research & Insights: Understand your customers through research and insights that empower a better experience.

Brand Strategy & Storytelling: Engage your audience with advanced storytelling, branding, and video production capabilities.

Idea Activation & Prototyping: Bring ideas to life and design what customers need through agile and rapid prototyping.

Innovation Strategy: See the future — build the next big thing or rapidly evolve to stay ahead of the curve.

Software Engineering: Build your experience with clean code — at Cantina, we do it all, full stack, front end, back end, you name it, we code it.

Technical Architecture: Design a rock solid technology stack that flexes and scales with your needs.

Mobile & Web: Create an engaging and user-friendly mobile and web experience for your customers.

Internet of Things (IoT): Develop an IoT strategy that makes sense; then build smart connected devices that deliver for your customers.

AR/VR & Mixed Reality: Take advantage of AR/VR and mixed reality to create a better experience and make your product or service stand out.

AI & Machine Learning: Use the power of AI &aamp; ML to revolutionize your business and augment the human experience.

Delivery & Enablement: Learn from our team of experts while delivering fast and effectively.Resources :  Blog

Hackworks

Description: At Hackworks, we believe in the power of the crowd. Our consultants use crowdsourcing, co-creation, and challenge-based learning techniques to produce innovation programs and events where perspectives, inspiration and ideas are shared, minds are expanded and changed, new connections are made, and more resonant solutions are found than any of us could create individually.

We deliver real impact for Innovation, R&D, Talent Brand, HR, Corporate Venture, Product Development, Marketing and Customer Engagement teams.

Office(s): Headquartered in Toronto, Canada

Website :  hackworks.com

Phone: +1 (416) 907-4869

Contact: Contact Hackworks

Twitter: @HackworksInc

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients:  We have clients in health/life sciences (New York Life), banking/finance (Capital One, TD), professional services (Randstad, Stantec), Government (Government of Canada, City of Vancouver), real estate (Oxford Properties), non-profits (Aqua Forum) and more.

Expertise:  We leverage the framework of hackathons to design and execute custom events and programs that use crowdsourcing and co-creation techniques as well as a challenge-based learning approach to deliver on real business objectives related to R&D, technology exploration, corporate venture, digital transformation, innovation culture, skill building, talent brand, brand positioning and client engagement or onboarding.Resources :  Hackworks Introduction, Process, Programs & Platform Deck, book a free, no-strings-attached consultation session to explore how crowdsourcing, co-creation and challenge-based learning can help you reach your business goals

Innosight

Description: Innosight is a strategy and innovation consulting firm that helps organizations navigate disruptive change and manage strategic transformation. Now a member of the Huron Consulting Group, we work with leaders to create growth strategies, accelerate critical innovation initiatives, build innovation capabilities, and manage change. Discover how we can help your organization navigate disruption at www.innosight.com .

Office(s): Boston, Lausanne Switzerland, NYC, Singapore

Website : 

Phone: 718-652-7200

Contact: Contact Innosight

Twitter: @InnosightTeam

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients:  Aetna, J&J, DBS, Bayer, Walgreens, LinkedIn, Citi, Ford Motor

Expertise:  Innovation strategy, process, and capabilities; growth strategy; transformation; business model innovation; customer insights and experience; culture change; leadership development and learning; organizational designResources :  Innovation Performance Hub

KPMG

Description: KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”). KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 154 countries and territories and have 200,000 people working in member firms around the world.

Website :  kpmg.com

Contact: Connect with KPMG

Twitter: @KPMG_US

LinkedIn :  Profile

Sense Worldwide

Description: Breakthrough innovation needs people with different minds to deliver different outcomes. We collaborate with creators: outliers, misfits, rebels and the crazy ones to understand the future and develop breakthrough strategies. We help innovators to see things differently and think differently. We are experts in harnessing cognitive diversity at scale. Our unique source of divergent perspective is channeled from The Sense Network. We are home to 5,000+ creators from over 1,000 cities worldwide. In collaboration with our clients and The Sense Network, we work as one team. We use agile workflows: to discover future needs, evaluate and derisk existing pipelines; ideate, iterate and design breakthrough innovation.

Office(s):
USA: 135 W 41st St 5th Floor, New York NY 10036
UK: 71-91 Aldwych, London WC2B 4HN

Website :  senseworldwide.com

Phone:
New York: +1(212) 518 3444
London: +44(0)20 7025 6040

Contact: Contact Anthony Chase, Head of Marketing

LinkedIn :  Profile

Sample Clients:  Since 1999, Sense Worldwide has helped some of the world’s most innovative companies be more innovative. Nike, Sonos, PepsiCo, Barclays, Viacom, Diageo, BUPA, GE, SC Johnson, Blue Diamond and many other organisations collaborate with The Sense Network to shape their future.

Expertise:  We might not know the answer to your challenge right now, but we do know how to get you there. Our talent is to make an innovation challenge simple and fun.

How might we identify whitespace opportunities?
How might we talk about our category differently?
How might we define a future design strategy?
How might we understand the needs of our future consumers?
How might we co-create a new business proposition?
How might we target a new customer in a new market?
How might we develop a disruptive brand strategy?
How might we prioritise a five year innovation roadmap, fast?
How might we help you to innovate?

Propositions: To help innovators to see things differently and think differently, Sense Worldwide harnesses the cognitive diversity of The Sense Network, to deliver:

BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION: Make a creative leap. Develop game-changing innovations. Co-create with people who see things differently and think differently to you. Elevate analytical thinking to breakthrough propositions. Design future brand experiences.

NEW LEADERSHIP VISION:Reframe the future. Explore unknown unknowns. Uncover the ideas in your organisation. Map strategic opportunities. Ask, what business are you really in? Design a future vision and roadmap with foresight. Mitigate risk.

MIND EXPANSION DAYS: Become more innovative. Expand your mind. Overcome groupthink. Develop the Creative Intelligence of your team. Seek inspiration from your future customers who live at the edge of culture. Design early stage concepts.

Services: Our workflows support various stages of the innovation and corporate venturing process:

1. Evaluation – Derisk current pipeline. Overcome cognitive bias. Mitigate false negatives. Invest in the breakthrough innovations that will drive future growth.

2. Discovery – Understand future needs, today. Identify breakthrough opportunities emerging at the edge of culture that will enter the consumer mainstream tomorrow.

3. Ideation – Develop breakthrough propositions. Collaborate with your future customers. Evaluate analytical thinking; elevate it to breakthrough ideas.

4. Feedback – Iterate: stretch, challenge and build on your ideas. Test breakthrough propositions and future plans. Harness the divergent perspectives of The Sense Network.

5. Validation – Identify potential disruptions; the unknown unknowns. Immunise ideas against external forces. Future proof your business strategy, with the people living in the future.

Resources : Thought Leadership: The Crazy Ones If you’re not using cognitive diversity to innovate, you’re doing it wrong.

The Sense Network: Meet people from worlds unlike your own. The outliers, misfits, rebels and the crazy ones.

Extreme Perspectives Podcast: Conversations with people from the edge of culture who see things differently and think differently.

Senser Stories: Job titles do not define us. Our stories make us unique. Meet The Sense Network.

www.sifoundry.com

Phone: 415-366-7345

Contact: Email

Twitter: @scnfoundry

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients:  BP, Capital Group, Estée Lauder, Ford Motor Company, Invesco, NatWest, UPS, SK hynix, Southwest Airlines

Expertise:  Innovation, emerging technologies, business development, start-up + corporate connectivity, corporate venture capital, partnerships, investment, co-creation, M&A

Resources:  Blog

U+

Description: U+ builds, commercializes and scales innovative digital products and services for Fortune 1000 companies. To date, we have brought 100+ successful businesses to market, creating over $1 billion in new value.

Office(s): San Francisco: 44 Tehama St, San Francisco, California 94105, US
New York: 175 Varick St, New York, 10014, US
Toronto: 278 Gladstone Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3L6, CA
Prague: Příčná 4, Prague, Prague 1 11000, CZ

Website :  u.plus

Contact:  Email

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: Porsche, RBC, Bridgestone, Cisco, Silicon Valley Bank, SwissRe, T-Mobile, Volkswagen Group, UDR, AXA Insurance

Expertise :Digital Innovation, Corporate Innovation, Venture Building, Ideation, IP Prioritization, Idea Validation, Market Testing, Software Development, App Development, Design, Business Scaling

Resources: Blog: Innovation Insights , U+ Guide Method

edison365 

Description: The edison365 suite leverages Microsoft Office 365 to deliver the freedom to crowdsource ideas from employees, and the method to implement them. Combining innovative award-winning ideation and Portfolio Management modules, edison365 turns your good ideas into great business solutions. With edison365ideas, businesses can identify areas of focus, and crowdsource ideas from their employees to achieve specific, valuable problem-solving, while giving them a voice and platform to raise their ideas. Then, using edison365projects, the award-winning Microsoft PPM solution, businesses can seamlessly execute projects through an intuitive, sleek interface, to generate measurable results based on insight from every level of the organization.

Office(s): Jubilee House Third Avenue Marlow Bucks SL7 1EY United Kingdom; 11900 NE 1st St Suite 300, Bellevue, WA 98005

Website :  edison365.com

Phone: North America +1 (425) 526-3119; UK +44 (1) 628-3213 21

Contact:  Email

Twitter: @edison_365

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: View Full Client List

Expertise : edison365 suite is built on Microsoft Office365 to deliver the freedom to crowdsource ideas from employees, and the method to implement them. Combining innovative award winning ideation and Portfolio Management modules, edison365 turns your good ideas into great business solutions. Use edison365ideas to crowdsource ideas and edison365projects to turn them into visible and actionable plans.

Resources :  See All Resources

Ezassi

Description: Ezassi has the technologies and services to accelerate your innovation lifecycle. Our solutions will expedite Innovation Strategy, Ideation, Collaboration, Technology Discovery, and Scouting initiatives, enabling your key innovation objectives. Combine the power of a robust discovery engine tool with scouting services to build strategic connections, identify potential collaborators, and uncover opportunities for innovation across your company’s portfolio. Utilize Ezassi’s Innovation Resource Management software to organize and manage ideation and collaboration, enabling transformational improvements and driving profitability for your company’s greatest innovations.

Office(s): 822 A1A North, Suite 104. Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082

Website :  ezassi.com/

Contact:  Email

LinkedIn :  Profile

Sample Clients: avanos, Halyard, xignux, Sterling Pharm Solutions, Abbott, Fox Latin America, sourceability, sobi Expertise:

Expertise : Innovation Software Solutions; Technology Discovery- Technology Landscaping, Tech Scouting, Horizon Scans, Trend Scans; idea management software- ideation and collaboration, open innovation, crowdsourcing, Kanban project pipeline

Resources : Blog ,  Case Studies

InnovationCast 

Description: If you are looking for assistance to create or re-imagine your innovation system, you can count on us.

Whether you are more focused on employee innovation or collaborating with external parties, we can help. We’ll work together to quickly set up all the building blocks you need to make innovation happen: capturing, assessing, testing, developing and implementing ideas. All supported by our end-to-end, award-winning digital platform.

We also provide services to help you establish all the activities you need to perform technology scouting, trend detection and search for startups or other partners who can help fuel innovation at your company.

Office(s): Lisbon and Porto, Portugal

Website :  innovationcast.com

Phone: +1 (617) 418-4321

Contact:  Email InnovationCast

Twitter: @innovationCast

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: Vodafone, Barilla, Sanofi, VISA, ENI, HRDF, Mobily – Etihad Etisalat, Healthstream, Siemens, AICPA, Otto-Fuchs, Nextplora, Mota-Engil, A2A, Deltatre, HCA, Everis – NTT Data, VdA – Vieira de Almeida, SDL, ANA Airports, Delta

Expertise: In short, with InnovationCast you will…

• Get stronger ideas, faster (from employees / partners / customers
• Decide on which ideas to invest in.
• Test the most promising ideas, without breaking the bank.
• Take the best ideas to the finish line, to create value.
• Monitor and analyze your business environment, to find trends, technologies, companies and insights which can trigger more innovation.
• Engage people and recognise valuable contributions that make a difference.
• Track progress in real time and always know where your attention is needed.

Resources :  Read their brochure

PatSnap

Description: We’re the global leaders in connected innovation intelligence made up of more than 800 PatSnappers across three continents, helping 8,000+ customers in 40+ different countries make better innovation decisions every single day. We do that by combining millions of R&D and IP datasets so our customers can connect the dots, increase productivity, and innovate more effectively.

Office(s): London, Toronto, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing and Suzhou

Website :  patsnap.com

Phone: Europe: +44 (0) 203 880 6999 / North America: +1 (437) 266 7465

Contact:  Email PatSnap

Twitter: @PatSnap

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: NCH Corporation, City University London, Invenntik, Tecnovaxion

Expertise : Our leading innovation intelligence platform is designed to help you identify technological opportunities that could affect the future growth and survival of your business. From ideation to commercialization, we separate the signal from the noise so you can learn everything you need to know about a company’s technology and innovation.

Resources :  Resources

Planbox 

Description: Founded in 1999, Planbox is a pioneering provider of AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management software and services. An AI engine mines your data for insights while your community collaborates to discover, develop and capitalize on the best ideas from employees, customers, partners and suppliers.

Office(s): Planbox Headquarters, 3090 Le Carrefour Blvd #750 Laval, Québec Canada H7T 2J7; Planbox Innovation Center 733 Cathcart Street #200 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 1M6; Planbox Sales Department 111 North Market Street Suite 300 San Jose, California, USA 95113

Website :  planbox.com

Phone: North America 1-855-PLANBOX (855-752-6269); International 1-514-788-4703

Contact:  Contact Planbox

Twitter: @planbox

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: Honeywell, Great-West Life, Panama Canal Authority, Philips, Sealed Air, Sun Life Financial, Whirlpool, Willis Towers Watson, Verizon

Expertise : AI-Powered Agile Work Innovation Management Software and Services Solution Provider.

Resources :  Resource Center

Sopheon

Description: In these times of dramatic change, enterprises can prioritize innovation and product development initiatives to enable a competitive advantage. By identifying, evaluating, and successfully executing against the right strategic priorities, Sopheon provides the ability to more effectively and efficiently control and manage innovation and new product development programs and pipelines. Sopheon solutions deliver an innovation decision command center that gives companies complete visibility, smarter decision-making, and better time to value.

Office(s): HQ: Sopheon Corporation, 7900 International Dr Suite 650, Bloomington, MN 55425, USA
Sopheon Corporation, 6870 West 52nd Avenue, #215, Arvada, CO 80002, USA
Sopheon UK Limited, Dorna House One, Guildford Road, West End, Surrey GU24 9PW, UK
Sopheon NV, Kantoorgebouw OFFICIA 1, De Boelelaan 7, 1083 HJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sopheon NV, MECC Office Building, Gaetano Martinolaan 95, 6229 GS Maastricht, The Netherlands
Sopheon GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str. 10, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany

Website : www.sopheon.com

Phone: 1 952-851-7500

Contact:  Email Sopheon

Twitter: @sopheon

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: Mondelez, Smuckers, Clif Bar, Hershey, 3M, LG, POST, Benefit, PepsiCo, Honeywell, Philips, Rust-oleum, Gojo, Dupont, Ingredion

Expertise : Sopheon solutions deliver an innovation decision command center that gives companies complete visibility, smarter decision-making, and better time to value.

Resources :  Resources

SmartOrg

Description: Aligning innovation and finance to drive profitable growth, with software and services for innovation and portfolio management. Make uncertainty your friend! SmartOrg’s methods for evaluating opportunities allows you to align on where and how much to invest and how to drive the upside. Whether your growth challenge is to innovate in an exciting new area, or to balance your portfolio across competing interests, we can help you get better results and build your capability.

Office(s): 99 Almaden Blvd., Suite 975, San Jose, CA 95113

Website :  www.smartorg.com

Phone: (650) 470-0120

Contact:  Email SmartOrg

Twitter: @Smartorginc

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: Corteva, DuPont, Applied Materials, Exxon Mobil

Expertise : Portfolio management, Innovation management, Decisionmaking, Evaluation, Strategy

Resources :  Resources

rready

Description: We offer end-to-end solutions for employee engagement, idea management and idea execution. Our KICKBOX concept is based on a proven methodology used by +1000 companies globally. An online platform, a physical toolbox, an expert network and strategic support are the core elements of our KICKBOX program.

Office(s): HQ – Hardturmstrasse 3, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland
US – 2125 Center Ave., Suite #507, Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Uberlandia – MTI – Minas Tecnologia e Inovação, rready Team, Av. Floriano Peixoto, 1615 – Nossa Sra. Aparecida, Uberlândia – MG, 38400-702, Brasilien
Serbia – Interventure, rready Team, Zira, Cvijićeva 127, RS-11000 Belgrade
Rotterdam – 42workspace – Tech Coworking Space Rotterdam, rready Team, Schiedamse Vest 154, 3011 BH Rotterdam, Niederlande Compose

Website :  rready.com

Phone: +41 44 273 52 11

Contact:  Email

LinkedIn :  Profile

Expertise : Intrapreneurship and Innovation

Resources :  Corporate Entrepreneurship Success Stories | rready Case Studies, Innovation Solutions & Corporate Transformation Strategies, Corporate Innovation Video Hub, Innovation Ideas for Companies

Swarm Vision

Description: Swarm Vision is the innovation system from Silicon Valley that drives transformational innovation in large organizations with the workforce you already have. The Swarm SAAS platform was developed specifically for large enterprises, based on our deep understanding of corporate innovation. Swarm provides a breakthrough new way for innovation, R&D and business leaders to achieve your innovation goals systematically and repeatably. Swarm brings deep science to the often-hazy field of innovation. The award-winning and intuitive Swarm platform enables you to identify the innovation talent already in your workforce, organize it into stronger teams, develop your latent talent, and drive a true culture of innovation.

Office(s): Los Altos, CA (Silicon Valley)

Website :  www.swarmvision.com

Phone: 415-290-2476

Contact:  Email Swarm Vision

Twitter: @swarmvision

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: Campbells, Colgate, Johnson & Johnson, KBR, Mondelez, NASA, Omnicom, PepsiCo, Rheem, SAP, Shell, Total Energies

Expertise : Swarm is best known for conducting the largest research study in the world on serial, successful innovators. The award-winning Swarm Innovation System is built on this ground-breaking research. Swarm enables large organizations to: identify the innovation talent in their workforce and candidate pool, analyze and design stronger teams, upskill their innovation talent, and drive a culture of innovation, based on science.

Resources :  Swarm Published Research The Ultimate Guide to Innovation Talent Assessments, The Ultimate Guide to Driving an Innovation Culture, The Ultimate Gide to Innovation Training, The Ultimate Guide to Innovation Teams, The Ultimate Guide to a Stronger Innovation System

Babson Executive Education 

Description: Babson College’s mission is to teach entrepreneurial leaders everywhere how to make a real-world impact. Entrepreneurial leaders move teams through change and disruption, navigating through uncertainty and recognizing growth opportunities. Babson Executive Education helps organizations develop entrepreneurial leaders across industries to drive growth and innovation. Our custom programs are co-created learning journeys that offer interactive ways for groups, led by our world-renowned faculty, to develop forward-looking platforms and redesigned business strategies.

Office(s): Wellesley, MA

Website :  babson.edu/bee

Phone: (781) 239-4354

Contact:  Email

Twitter: @babson

LinkedIn :  Profile

Expertise : Design and deliver custom learning and development programs in innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and disruption

Resources :  Babson Insights, Entrepreneurship

MIT ILP and MIT Startup Exchange

Description: The MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) is industry’s most comprehensive portal to MIT, enabling companies worldwide to harness MIT resources to address current challenges and to anticipate future needs. MIT Startup Exchange actively promotes collaboration and partnerships between 2,000+ MIT-connected startups and industry, principally the 260+ members of the MIT ILP. MIT Startup Exchange and the ILP are integrated programs of MIT Corporate Relations.

Office(s): 1 Main Street 12th Floor, E90-1201 Cambridge, MA 02142

Website :  MIT ILP, Startup Exchange

Phone: 617-253-2691

Contact:  Email MIT LLP, Email MIT Startup Exchange

Twitter: @mit_ilp, @MITSTEX

LinkedIn :  MIT Industrial Liaison Program, MIT Startup Exchange

Clients: 

Current ILP Members: Amgen Inc., The Boeing Company, Citi, Colgate-Palmolive Company, COMCAST, ExxonMobil Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation, The Proctor & Gamble Company, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sample Startup Exchange companies, of current STEX25 cohort: Everactive, Realtime Robotics

Expertise : MIT ILP: Connecting industry to MIT resources and expertise
MIT Startup Exchange: Connecting industry to MIT startups

Resources :  Learn about MIT ILP upcoming webinars, Learn about MIT Startup Exchange upcoming workshops, Learn about the current STEX25 cohort, Read and watch MIT faculty profiles, Click here for more information on MIT ILP membership

MassChallenge

Description: MassChallenge strengthens the global innovation ecosystem by accelerating high-potential startups across all industries, from anywhere in the world for zero-equity taken.

Office(s): Boston, Massachusetts; Austin, Texas; United Kingdom; Switzerland; Israel; Mexico

Website :  masschallenge.org

Phone: (888) 782-7820

Contact:  Email

Twitter: @masschallenge

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: Fidelity, P&G, PepsiCo, GE, General Mills, L’Oreal

Expertise : Early-stage acceleration, corporate innovation, ecosystem activation, mentorship

Resources :  Blog

Innovation Academy at Notre Dame’s IDEA Center

Description: Innovation Academy at the University of Notre Dame’s IDEA Center delivers tailored learning experiences to help professionals build a lasting culture of innovation. We believe that the tools for creative problem-solving should be accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. And in a business environment going through unprecedented change, leaders need those tools now more than ever. By participating in our unique Innovation Academy programs, you can link your innovation strategies to your overall organizational goals to be a force for good, understand and apply our Unifying Innovation Methodology™ to relevant business problems, and learn to communicate and drive innovation through smart storytelling.

Office(s): Notre Dame, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; Washington D.C.; Silicon Valley, California; and Global Gateways and Centers in China; Hong Kong; India; Isreal; United Kingdom; Italy; Mexico; Brazil; and Chile.

Website :  innovationacademy.nd.edu

Phone: (574)631-8273

Contact:  Email

Expertise : Innovation tools and proven methodologies for creative problem-solving; building a sustainable and inclusive culture of innovation

Resources : A detailed program overview and Innovation Action Boot Camp learning journey framework.

Startgrid 

Description: Startgrid is an innovation platform helping companies make their external innovation efforts more successful. From tracking business needs to scouting startups to discovering the best solutions, Startgrid makes it easy for teams to solve problems, share intelligence and measure the impact of their efforts on the business.

Office(s): 700 Airport Boulevard, Suite 370, Burlingame, CA 94010

Website :  startgrid.com

Phone: (650) 251-4686

Contact:  Send Mail

Twitter: @startgridco

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: BNY Mellon, Mercer, Mitsubishi, and CenturyLink

Expertise : Scouting, network building, delivering external innovation into organizations, project tracking, pipeline management, reporting and analysis of innovation efforts

Resources : Check out Startgrid’s  blog ,  podcast , and  datasheets .

SwitchPitch 

Description: SwitchPitch is the leading Startup Relationship Management platform for innovation teams at Fortune 1000 companies. From identifying startups to relationship management, SwitchPitch gets innovation teams to ROI outcomes quickly and efficiently.

Office(s): Washington, D.C. 94010

Website :  switchpitch.com

Phone: (888)727-9482

Contact:  Email Michael Goldstein from SwitchPitch

Twitter: @SwitchPitch

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients: Pfizer, Amazon, Chick-fil-A, and many others.

Expertise : managing startup relationships, scouting startups, innovation alignment, pilot management.

Resources :  Blog

ADLVentures

Description: ADL Ventures focuses on developing and deploying new services and products on behalf of critical infrastructure incumbents. Our firm is a do-tank, not a think-tank, and our deliverables are outcomes as opposed to reports.

Website :  www.adlventures.com

Contact: Contact ADL Ventures

LinkedIn :  Profile

Resources:  Blog

Bamboo Crowd 

Description: Bamboo Crowd is a recruitment and talent partner to innovation teams. Our purpose is to deliver world-class innovation talent to startups, consultancies, corporates, VC’s and scaleups.

Office(s): London HQ:Unit G09, The Print Rooms, 164-180 Union Street, London, SE1 0LH, UK
NYC HQ:181 N 11th St, Unit 207, Brooklyn, New York, 11211, USA

Website :  www.BambooCrowd.com

Contact: Email

Twitter: @bamboocrowd

LinkedIn :  Profile

Expertise: Thinker: Innovation Strategists, Business Designers, Service Designers, Research and Insights, Growth Strategists Design Researchers & Strategists.

Maker: UX designers, UI Designers, Visual Designers, Product Designers, Brand Designers, Interaction Designers.

Build: Product Managers, Front-End Developers, Software Engineers, Data Engineering.

Scale: Growth Marketers, Performance Marketers, Partnerships, Business Development, Sales, Client Services, Customer Success.

Clients:  EY Doberman, Prophet, Deloitte, Thrivent, Current, Moody’s, PNC Bank, Abercrombie & Fitch

Resources:  Blog

Highline Beta

Description: Highline Beta is a hybrid corporate venture studio and VC fund that discovers growth opportunities for large companies, and helps them realize those opportunities through internal and external innovation. We believe the most ambitious companies need to build a portfolio of new ventures to win with a venture capital mindset. Whether you’re looking to build new businesses in-house, spin-out new startups, or partner with startups through a corporate accelerator, we can help.

Office(s): Toronto (HQ), New York, Chicago, LA, Vancouver, Montreal

Website :  www.highlinebeta.com

Phone: 416-587-7623

Contact: Email

Twitter: @highlinebeta

LinkedIn :  Profile

Clients:  RBC, AB InBev, Kraft, Aviva, American Family

Expertise:  Corporate venture development, venture capital, pilot program accelerators

Resources:  Blog