Novable was founded by Laurent Kinet and Olivier Beaujean, two entrepreneurs who have been partners for over seventeen years in various technology ventures. As a co-founder of Swan Insights SA, acquired by the Bisnode group in 2017, Laurent then held a managerial position within the group, focusing on innovation and startup identification. In this role, he noticed a lack of method and, even more so, technology in innovation processes aimed at young, Innovative Companies: everything was done manually, depending on opportunities.
This led to the idea of developing a technology based on Artificial Intelligence to identify the most relevant startups for businesses, applying the expertise developed at Swan Insights. This idea blossomed into the creation of Novable and its project. Novable operates at the intersection of (1) innovation and startups, namely Corporate Venturing, and (2) new technologies, specifically AI, Natural Language Processing and large language models techniques. Naturally, Novable is gradually carving out a niche in the world of Corporate Innovation, a critical area receiving increasing attention from most major global companies.
With over twenty years of experience in the tech startup environment as entrepreneurs, advisors, and investors, Laurent and Olivier are developing Novable at the heart of their expertise, at the crossroads of the two main axes of their professional development.
We focus on the real people behind startups, innovation, and technology, recognising that businesses are built by individuals, not just driven by interests.
As individuals, we view transparency as a lifestyle of authenticity and honesty. As a company, we value being trusted by our clients, who entrust us with industrial secrets and strategic assignments.
We approach our market strategically, working with prestigious organisations worldwide, driven by global ambitions and a collective entrepreneurial spirit. Creativity is at the heart of everything we do, fuelling our exploration of new horizons and our relentless curiosity, recognising that not everything can be simplified or automated.
We focus on making Startup Scouting a nice activity that must reflect the dynamism of the innovation initiatives we scout. We pay important attention to the fact we should all have fun at work, taking sense of humour very seriously.
We concretely support industry leaders in their transition to cleaner, greener, more sustainable operations and governance. See examples. We commit to social responsibility. We encourage our team members to engage in social impact and related projects, giving a sense of what we do.
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Each year we look for startups that are big enough to collaborate with Orange, based on a specific thematic. Novable helps us in this search, providing us with the right insights, and saving us a lot of time.
Our engagement with Novable has helped us better understand market capabilities matched with digitally innovative solutions across the supply chain. The regular connects and ‘can do’ attitude made us feel truly supported throughout our projects. They always asked for our input, valued our opinions, and used them to guide their decisions. Our collaboration involved numerous Scouting Campaigns and in-depth innovation reports on companies of interest, which have been invaluable in driving our innovation initiatives.
Novable seemed like the best option in terms of user experience, price, and results. Having those lists of companies presented to you every couple of days cuts down on so much time and it’s a much easier workflow for me.
We had a very specific customer request for a practically non-existing technology in eCommerce. In just 2 iterations (2 hours of workload for us), Novable managed to find 3 times the amount of companies we had after multiple weeks of research. The quality of the startups was top-notch (over 66% match rate). Some relevant companies were completely under the radar, meaning we were the first ones to reach out to them. This is great news for any CVC initiative and innovation consultants: Novable can deliver a blue ocean that no other solution could find.
We were conducting market research around MedTech companies in several domains. Thanks to regular touch points and iterative precision, Novable delivered many new and unknown companies (82), which further increased the value for our customer. The best part is that it only took me a couple of hours to get there.
Our objective is to know where we, and our technology, stand within the market. Novable helps us to map the current technology landscape out.
After benchmarking 11 solutions and testing two of them, we’re delighted to see that Novable’s promises exceeded our expectations, both in terms of the platform and the team behind it. The quality of the sourcing and the deadlines, even during peak periods, are always on target. Since then, other departments (like M&A) have wanted to use it too!
Novable was quite impressive on its way to collect specific companies, specialised in NFTs, which was in scope with my search criteria and did this very rapidly.
The results provided by the platform are efficient and relevant. Additionally, the startup scouting tool has well-designed ergonomics and features. A big part of our great relationship has to do with the very good support of the team, too.
The pharmaceutical industry requires constant innovation. We need to find the right thing to develop and do it on time. Novable helps us to be more efficient in these tasks.
To stay in the state-of-the-art you need to know what is happening outside of the bubble. Using Novable to benchmark the potential companies you could be interested in is extremely useful.
