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Do you have an innovation or startup scouting project right now? Connect with the best startups to drive corporate innovation and growth. You can book a demo by selecting a date and we’ll make sure that you get immediate results from the time you invested.

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What is startup scouting?

Startup scouting is part of the corporate venture engagement. More specifically, it is the process of identifying, evaluating, and selecting the best startups to work with. The purpose is to ensure that the right startups will enter your radar in due time. 

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What you'll get

1. A Tailor-made Campaign

What is a Campaign? A Campaign is not just a simple search. A Campaign, specifically defined by your needs, is an iterative process of finding the best startups.

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2. Novable Agent Support

Who are the Agents? Although AI technologies have come a long way, they’re only the first part of the process. That’s where our scouting experts come into play, guaranteeing the quality of the AI’s results by providing their insights.

3. Fast Delivery

Why pick Novable over a specialised scouting team? Novable has an edge over traditional scouting teams. Instead of a normal 4-8 week scouting period, Novable delivers the first full batch of results in 2 days.

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4. Many More Features

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Iterating

You might not find what you’re looking for right away, and that’s okay. We’re going to iterate over your Campaign, until you find what you need – at no extra cost!

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Real-time Search

Need quick results or you just want to see what’s under the hood? Real-time search is like Google for startups, only better.

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+2M Companies

As the number of companies is growing by day, so is the number of features, giving you the best possible insights in order to make the right decisions.

We are proud of our 97% satisfaction rate

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  • 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.

    Liam Webber Whitespace
    Liam Webber
    Innovation Outreach at Whitespace
  • 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.

    Marion Scala
    Hi’Tech Luxury - Innovation Program Director at Micropole
  • 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.

    Maarten Van Gorp
    Venture Acceleration Manager at IMEC
  • Our objective is to know where we, and our technology, stand within the market. Novable helps us to map the current technology landscape out.

    LaurentDelhalle
    Laurent Delhalle
    Senior Research Scientist at Realco
  • 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.

    Damien D'Ostuni
    Damien D'Ostuni
    Head of Innovation at Wavemaker Belgium
  • 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.

    JP Boisvert @ Client
    Jean-Philippe Boisvert
    Research Programs & Partnerships at Etex Building Performance
  • 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.

    Jeff Tonnar @ Client
    Jeff Tonnar
    Innovation Manager at Laboratoire Aguettant
  • 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.

    CĂ©cile Cordier Engie
    CĂ©cile Cordier
    Head of Innovation at Engie Global Management Solutions
  • Novable’s AI keeps iterating until it converges toward accurate results. We used other AI tools internally, but they never converged the way Novable does. Novable takes a different approach and uses feedback loops that refocus the AI to reach convergence. It helped us find incredible companies that our own research and other tools were unable to find.

     

    Cal
    R&D Lab European leader in open innovation
  • Our partnership with Novable ensures us a constant flow of innovative companies and feeds our teams with new ideas.

    Robert M.
    Innovation Manager