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New business opportunities with Atlas Copco, Autoliv, KONE, Scania, and Stora Enso are now open!

Active opportunities are available in areas like machine vision, material innovation, logistics, or battery charging

Welcome, Atlas Copco!

We are very excited to welcome Atlas Copco into the Venture Client Alliance

Xiaofu and Stora Enso: Our First Startup-Corporate Partnership in China

Xiaofu has been working with Stora Enso to inform end-users of packaging about sustainable choices

Shute’s Kristian Rode: “A solution that fits the business needs also should be able to scale up for future use, maybe globally”

We sat down with Kristian Rode, CCO of Shute, to talk about their journey with KONE

Autoliv and Epiroc Move Forward with 4 Startups in their First China Innovation Cycle

Autoliv and Epiroc have selected 4 startups for continued partnerships after their first China cycle

KONE Selects 4 Startups in Their First China Venture Client Cycle

KONE selected 4 startups, to continue partnership discussions in their first venture client cycle in China

New wood building concepts in minutes, rather than weeks – Interview with Kreo

Kreo joined Stora Enso to co-create digital tools for wood construction

Interview with Imagine Intelligent Materials

Imagine Intelligent Materials & Stora Enso co-develop real-time wood structure leak and strain detection

An Autonomous Transport Venture Client Partnership, One Year On

Applied Intuition met Scania at Combient Foundry’s Value Proposition Days in 2019. We had a chat with Applied’s Qasar Younis to check in on how the collaboration is going.

Combient Foundry offers startups the chance to acquire global corporations as their clients

Check out our active opportunities

and submit your solution by May 29th

Augmented Worker Guidance with Atlas Copco

Atlas Copco is looking for worker guidance solutions to enable less trained persons to conduct specific and non-repetitive tasks

Wireless Charging for Elevators with KONE

KONE elevators need a wireless power transmission system to help charge elevator car batteries at higher power

Customizable Seatbelts with Autoliv

We seek novel ways to produce decorated seat belts to enable to fully customized seat belt designs

Compostable Barrier Solutions with Stora Enso

We seek innovative renewable barrier solutions to provide compostable and/or recyclable food packaging at scale

Computer Vision Platform with Scania

We want to create a computer vision platform to automate manual work and ensure production and logistic quality

Improved Work Ergonomics with Atlas Copco

Atlas Copco wants to improve the work ergonomics of their assembly workstation operators

Product Labeling Automation with Autoliv

Our goal is to find an innovative automatic method for capturing product distribution information globally

New Cloud Offerings with Atlas Copco

Atlas Copco wants to expand their cloud solution portfolio to create new business value for industrial customers

We partner startups and corporations

across industries to drive change in fields like

Sustainability

New practices across value chains to reduce emissions, drive circular economy, and enable operational sustainability

Material innovation

Sourcing, designing for recyclability, and improving manufacturing, construction processes and end-user products

Energy

Coming soon!

Autonomous solutions

Powering breakthroughs in autonomous driving and building safe on-road environments

Supply chain

Quality control, supply chain transparency, and improved logistics upstream and downstream production

Urban environments

Developing construction methods and materials that make urban environments healthier, safer and more livable

what we bring to the table

Here’s how startups benefit from working with us

Expect your first sale to be a five figure deal – altogether, we’ve generated +22M€ revenue for startups from scaled projects

Deals we facilitate typically evolve into lasting customer relationships – over 60% of deals lead to continued collaboration with a global client

Gain a global reference client from our network of leading industrials comprising over 775,000 employees and combined net sales of €180B

Our opportunities come with a fixed business owner, bandwidth and budget – which means you skip up to five months in your sales cycle

We want to buy your product, not your company – so you always keep your equity and IP

Focus on execution – meaning no complex contracts, fees, or long-term commitments

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