Startup Scouting for Corporate Innovation

Startup scouting tailored to your innovation needs

Identify disruptive startups, new business models and ecosystem partners aligned with your strategy. Novable combines DeepMatching™ AI with senior expert validation to deliver decision-ready shortlists in two business days.

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Trusted by innovation leaders at
P&G
Airbus
Shell
Nestlé
BIC
EDF
PwC
Leroy Merlin
SNCF
Suntory
Maersk
Deutsche Telekom
TotalEnergies
Deloitte
Orange
Engie
Rolls-Royce
Richemont
WEF
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10M+

Innovative solutions indexed

5,000+

Validated companies delivered

185

Countries covered

300+

Topics covered

what is startup scouting?

More than sourcing — it's strategic alignment

Startup scouting is about identifying partners that map to your innovation roadmap. Through dedicated campaigns, corporates can:

Address urgent market challenges

Discover startups solving the problems your business needs solved now — not next year.

Complement existing products

Identify technologies that extend your portfolio and unlock new capabilities.

Accelerate digital transformation

Source partners that compress timelines on the initiatives already on your roadmap.

Validate innovation hypotheses

De-risk business concepts before you invest, with evidence from the live ecosystem.

How Novable works

AI matches. Experts validate. You decide.

Three layers working together to deliver shortlists you can actually act on.

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AI-powered Startup Scouting

Our DeepMatching™ engine maps your brief against millions of active startups and surfaces an initial pool of high-fit candidates in days — tailored to your industry, technology, stage and geography.

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Chat with Scott

Scott, the first Startup Scouting AI Expert, lets you instantly dive into any company, explore competitors and pull strategic insights in seconds.

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Novable Experts at your side

A senior innovation expert personally validates every shortlist and delivers decision-ready reports and benchmarks within two business days.

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Enterprise-Readiness Level (ERL)

ERL is a 0 to 5 score rating how ready a startup is to work with a large enterprise, looking past whether the tech works to whether the company can actually deliver.

What makes Novable different

Built for enterprise innovation, not generic search

We don't hand you a list of names. We deliver validated, comparable profiles your team can present to leadership.

AI + human validation

Comprehensive coverage from AI, reliability from senior experts. Neither alone is enough for enterprise decisions.

Enterprise-ready startups

Half a century of corporate-meets-startup experience. We surface partners that can actually deliver at your scale.

Results in 2 business days

Qualified innovation lists delivered fast, so your team moves from briefing to outreach in the same week.

97% client satisfaction

From global enterprises to category leaders — innovation teams rely on Novable to scout, validate and engage.

“Having a partner caring for the success of the project, daring to challenge and taking on responsibilities made a real difference. We can say that it was a success, and we received a lot of feedback on the quality of the participating companies”

Géraldine Doat
Corporate Innovation Manager, Framatome

"For our latest SCALE program, Novable managed to find 683 innovative companies, of which 72.6% were matching or exceeding our expectations. What's more, their iterative process helped us smoothly spread our outreach workload over the course of a month and a half. We were under a lot of pressure, and Novable never stopped delivering. Such a level of commitment to help us reach our objectives is rare."

Enya Steenssens
Senior Manager, PwC

"Our team scouts startups globally, and what we really like about Novable is that it doesn’t just surface companies, they’re vetted with a human-in-the-loop approach. That made a big difference, and we even brought some of these companies into our programs"

Tim Akgul
Head of incubation programs, Deutsche Telekom‍

"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
Open Innovation, Orange Belgium

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Pinpoint your innovation needs in 30 minutes

A personalised session with a Novable expert to map your scouting priorities and outline the first steps toward your next strategic partnership.

  • Walk through your innovation challenges and goals
  • See how DeepMatching™ applies to your specific case
  • Get a tailored roadmap & next-step recommendations