Startup Scouting Tailored to your Innovation Needs

Corporate innovation is evolving rapidly, with open innovation, ecosystem partnerships, and venture building among today’s top trends. At Novable, we stay at the forefront, helping corporates identify disruptive startups, new business models, and opportunities for long-term success.

Leverage Novable’s expertise to identify and collaborate with the most promising startups aligned with your innovative goals.

Novable Startup Scouting Platform Solution

What is startup scouting?

Startup scouting is more than just sourcing new companies It’s about strategically identifying partners that align with your organization’s innovation roadmap. Through dedicated scouting campaigns, corporates can:

  • Discover startups addressing urgent market challenges

  • Identify technologies that complement existing products or services

  • Accelerate digital transformation initiatives

  • Validate business concepts and innovation hypotheses

Our platform + team empower corporate leaders to move fast from identification to outreach, ensuring you don’t miss critical opportunities in the innovation ecosystem.

How does Novable technology work?

Our AI rapidly matches your needs with active startups, delivering an initial pool of promising candidates in record time. Then, our industry experts step in to personally curate a bespoke shortlist, ensuring you only see the most viable, high-potential partners that are perfectly aligned with your strategic goals, adding a crucial layer of verification and strategic context that technology alone cannot provide.

How fast can I get results?

You won’t have to wait long. To accelerate your project, our qualified innovation and startup lists for campaigns can be delivered within 2 business days.

What makes Novable different from other scouting services?

AI-powered research plus human validation means comprehensive and reliable results. Our combined experience brings a half-century+ of working within corporate and innovation worlds, one foot in startup spaces and the other in corporate boardrooms. We leverage this deep understanding to de-risk your innovation projects and ensure partnerships are built for long-term success. We understand both sides and are experts in helping corporates choose enterprise-ready startups and prepare to adapt to them.

How to Get Started: Book a Discovery Call

Ready to accelerate innovation? Book a free discovery session with our team and start your scouting journey today. Let’s pinpoint your exact innovation needs and map out the first steps toward finding the perfect technology or startup partner for you. If you have anything in particular you want to discuss during the call, do not hesitate to let us know about it beforehand. Our experts are here to provide the insights you need to succeed.

We simplify the path from initial exploration through due diligence and collaboration. Corporates receive practical, actionable insights on each potential partner, saving time and resources while reducing uncertainty. Our methodology transforms complex data into clear, comparable profiles, making your evaluation process significantly more efficient and effective. Our Novable Experts support you throughout every step, ensuring decisions are driven by accurate, up-to-date intelligence.

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1. AI-powered Startup Scouting

Effective innovation isn’t just about finding startups but also about building relationships that deliver mutual value. Hence, every case is different. Our personalized approach towards innovation scouting is based on your unique needs (industry, technology, stage, country, etc.)

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2. Chat with Scott

Find Companies in seconds with Scott, the 1st Startup Scouting AI Expert.

Now, Scott is able to help you dive deep into any company, instantly accessing competitors, and various insights.

 

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3. Novable Experts at your side

A Novable Expert will personally validate the list of Innovative Companies before delivering it to you. Receive detailed reports and benchmarks in maximum 2 days.

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For corporates, adopting a proactive and strategic approach to innovative solutions is essential to stay ahead of market disruptions, anticipate customer needs, and unlock new revenue streams. Startup scouting provides direct access to emerging startups, groundbreaking technologies, and fresh business models that can give them a crucial competitive edge and transform established organizations.

Across sectors like healthcare, energy, and finance, companies are seeking to modernize processes, enhance customer experience, and respond to rapid advancements in technology. Early adoption of promising solutions is crucial, as it can result in increased market share, operational efficiency, and long-term, sustainable competitive growth.

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DISCOVER NOVABLE

Talk now with a Novable Expert and see Novable in action. A personalized session to discuss your needs, answer questions, and pave the way for a successful Corporate Innovation journey ahead.
Start by filling in The Corporate Venturing Framework™ Canvas to understand your starting point here.

  • 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.

    Ariane Chan - Orange Belgium
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    Open Innovation at Orange Belgium

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  • I truly appreciate the human touch in your SaaS platform model, and how you’ve successfully bridged the gap between a platform and a full-service provider for open and corporate innovation.

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    David Torres
    Director - Global Scouting & Open Innovation at The Coca Cola Company
  • 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.

    Steve Baird @ Shell
    Steve Baird
    Digital Innovations Manager at Shell
  • One of the best things about working with Novable is the team behind it. It’s fun, seamless, and the collaboration just flows. Even when it’s not your core area of expertise, you demonstrate a strong understanding and know exactly where to ask the right questions and find the right solutions. This kind of partnership goes far beyond what you’d get from a simple SaaS tool.

    Michael Kokozidis
    Michael Kokozidis
    Open Innovation & Technology Scouting at BIC World
  • Novable is a true accelerator for innovation teams. The platform significantly reduces the time required to identify and connect with potential partners.

    Julia Seignier
    Julia Seignier
    Innovation Project Manager at Leroy Merlin
  • 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.

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    Laurent Delhalle
    Senior Research Scientist at Realco
  • 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!

    Quentin Berhault - Orano
    Quentin Berhault
    Open Innovation Catalyst at Orano
  • 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.

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    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.

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    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.

    Cécile Cordier Engie
    Cécile Cordier
    Head of Innovation at Engie Global Management Solutions