OPEN INNOVATION · THE BRIDGE
Your next partners. A first pilot.
In venture clienting, the corporate becomes the startup’s client through a short pilot, before any investment. We run this bridge on both sides: challenges and PoCs for corporates, preparation and access to decision-makers for startups and their funds.
FOR CORPORATES
Test the best the market has to offer, without waiting two years.
- Challenges built on your real business issues, turned into problem statements startups understand.
- Qualified international sourcing: Europe, Asia, the Americas, in your vertical.
- 6–8 week PoCs: one use case, one sponsor, a clear decision at the end.
- Then adoption: playbook, governance, rollout to other countries.
FOR STARTUPS AND THEIR FUNDS
Go from demo to contract, with the right decision-makers.
- Access to corporates we have worked with for ten years.
- Market readiness: pitch, pricing, an offer built for corporate procurement.
- Qualified meetings, vendor onboarding, paid pilots.
- Follow-through until the first contracts, not until the delegation photo.
FROM EXPLORATION TO ADOPTION
Innovation only creates value once it’s adopted.
01
Inspire & align
Market scans, tech watch and masterclasses to connect innovation to your strategic priorities.
02
Source & select
Startups, technologies and partners qualified for sector relevance and business fit.
03
Test & validate
Structured PoCs and challenges to validate relevance, feasibility and value. Scale, iterate or pivot.
04
Adopt & deploy
Learnings turned into playbooks, governance and the conditions to deploy at scale.
FORMATS
From a weekend hackathon to a six-month PoC program.
4 TO 12 WEEKS
Startup challenges
A clear business challenge, the ecosystem mobilized, the best solutions selected and tested.
6 WEEKS TO 6 MONTHS
PoC programs
On-site or co-designed pilots, embedded in your operations, with clear metrics.
3 TO 48 HOURS
Hackathons
50 to 200 participants, internal teams, startups and outside talent, from concept to pitched prototype.
1 TO 2 WEEKS
Delegations & market entry
Prepared startup cohorts, then business meetings with your teams.
FOCUS · AI
You’ve chosen your AI partner. The startups in your vertical already build on it.
Startups in your sector have already built their use cases on Google, OpenAI, Anthropic or Salesforce models. Testing them with your business teams is the shortest path from pilot to production.
WHAT IT DELIVERS
PoCs that turn into contracts.
2 / 3
STARTUPS ONBOARDED AS VENDORS
GIA Paris program for Enterprise Singapore: 15 business meetings per startup, one PoC and one tender within the following weeks.
25 h
OF HACKATHON, 4 CORPORATES
The VivaTech Hack for Viva Technology: European tech talent on the challenges of four partner corporates.
3
CONTINENTS, ONE MODEL
CMA CGM: the European HQ innovation model rolled out on two continents, with hubs in Asia and the Americas and a PoC program.
Also: Club Med (startup PoCs deployed in resorts), Alstom (Asian sustainable mobility startups), Naval Group (innovation lab in Asia), L’Oréal Luxe (Korean Innovation Center), KITA (PoC program with multinationals). All client stories →
OUR DNA
We have designed and run labs, accelerators and startup programs for ten years.
From AvantGarde in Singapore to corporate innovation labs across Asia, we know what makes a startup–corporate collaboration work, and what kills it. Today we put that experience into pilots that end with a decision.