Growth · Innovation · International scale — Europe, Asia, Americas
Growth operators for corporates and the startups ready to scale.
We run your growth, innovation and international expansion programs, on the ground. Founded by entrepreneurs ten years ago. Measured in traction, revenue and shipped outcomes. Not decks.
10+
Years on the ground
50+
Corporate programs
150+
Startups & scale-ups supported
300+
Experts & operators
You are…
Corporates
Your strategy, executed on the ground
Team performance, strategy deployment, growth and innovation: your business roadmaps delivered 30–50% faster, in every market you operate in. And we measure what actually changes.
Funds · Agencies · Startups
Scale across Europe, Asia and the Americas
The operating partner for your portfolio and your programs: market choice, local setup, first corporate clients, and a scale-up that doesn’t break what already works. No conflict on the cap table: we don’t invest.
The Hack40 bridge · Open innovation
What one side is looking for, the other side already has.
Corporates want to test new solutions in their markets. The startups in our funds and programs are looking for their first clients. We make it happen through venture clienting, from sourcing to PoC. Explore the bridge →
Corporates
Experiment in every market they operate in
Targeted sourcing, 6–8 week PoCs, value measured at the end of the test.
Hack40
Runs the match, on both sides of the table
300+ operators across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Funds · Agencies · Startups
Find clients and partners in their new markets
A fund’s portfolio companies or an agency’s cohorts, ready to scale.
Proof
Measured in results, not decks.
Corporates
24 → 12 months
Roadmaps delivered twice as fast. Cutting deployment time by 30–50% is the goal of every program.
“80% of the projects from the accelerator program made it into our roadmap.”
Bauke Rouwers · General Manager, Unilever
Startups · GIA Paris
2 / 3
startups onboarded as suppliers by corporates, with a PoC and a tender won along the way.
On the ground
Workshops, delegations, stages and signings: ten years of programs, from Paris to Singapore, by way of New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Seoul and Tokyo.
Clients
Corporates
Startups & scale-ups
In the press
L’ADN L’Usine Nouvelle FrenchWeb BFM Business Enterprise Singapore
Insights
Notes from the field on AI and scale.
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The Contraction of Product Time
Why your moat is probably in the most copyable layer of your business — and what to do about it
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The Contraction of Capital Patience
Why leadership teams are still running companies on narratives the market no longer funds — and what to do about it
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The Contraction of the Customer Path
Why companies are still optimizing the sales funnel while the buying decision is moving upstream
FAQ
What’s the difference between a traditional consulting firm and Hack40?
Hack40 is founded and led by entrepreneurs, not consultants: a team that masters new business models, startup culture, and the latest technology and usages from the inside, because we’ve practiced them, not just studied them.
What’s the difference between a traditional consulting mandate and a Hack40 engagement?
We draw on a network of 300 experts and entrepreneurs active across Europe, Asia and the Americas for over ten years. That presence lets us translate a global strategy into concrete value in each market, giving local teams best practices and the freedom to choose the most effective tactic given their real constraints of time and resources.
Why use Hack40 to expand internationally?
Post-Series A or B, every startup’s ambition is to clear the international scale hurdle. But growth and GTM teams have rarely lived through it, and often have to learn it on the fly. Hack40’s operators have already been through it: they help choose the right market, build the right operating model, and open up an established network of partners and prospects, to secure the first PoCs and first client contracts, not just introductions.
Why do startups worldwide work with Hack40?
Scaling puts company culture, technical architecture and the product itself under strain, often all at once. The startups that make it through surround themselves early with operators who’ve already managed that strain, to absorb growth without breaking what made them strong in the first place.
Who does Hack40 work with?
On the corporate side, we plug into four types of programs: growth-focused business programs (new products, services, sustainability), Learning and Leadership programs, innovation and open innovation programs, and programs led by IT. For IT in particular, we help turn an already-deployed platform, AI or otherwise, into use cases genuinely adopted by business teams: IT owns the technology, we bring the business traction that’s often missing to keep it alive beyond the partnership announcement. On the startup side, we work with public agencies, VCs, or directly with founders, on programs tailored to each vertical.