Shaping innovation together

We connect you with relevant startups and innovative companies for successful collaborations & innovation partnerships.

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Tailormade startup and innovation partners for you

As a matchmaker, we support SMEs, corporations and the public sector in implementing innovations quickly and easily. Regardless of whether you want to solve a specific problem in your company or gain comprehensive insights into specific areas of the startup and innovation landscape. We offer you holistic solutions for your innovation management & cooperation management.

Years of experience, a software-supported approach and a broadly diversified team of experts make us your specialist for everything to do with partnerships with matching startups & innovators.

Accurate fit

Software-supported

Industry agnostic

Local & global scouting

What we offer you

From your innovation strategy to the selection of potentially relevant solution providers to cooperation management – we are at your side on your path to successful innovation. We offer solutions to future-proof your business by providing you the best startups & innovation partnerships.

Scouting

Startup Scouting and Innovation Scouting, provides you with a comprehensive overview of solution providers in a defined subject area. It precedes every cooperation or venture clienting and is a central part of our services.

PoC & Project management

We take care of project management for you: from identifying requirements, scouting and establishing contacts through to cooperation management and success monitoring for smooth processes and measurable results.

Monitoring

Startup monitoring provides ongoing insights into market trends and relevant as well as new startups, which is crucial for future-oriented corporate strategies. It serves as a basis for informed decisions and innovations.

Challenges

With the organization of Innovation & Startup Challenges, we promote the search field, scout and select suitable partners and support setting up partnerships.

Sparring & Membership

We serve companies as a sparring partner in innovation management and startup cooperations by offering needsbased advice and support for the implementation of successful partnerships.

Further offerings

Further custom offerings include for example events like innovation tours or our startup scouting masterclass, the startup challenges platform or our startup scouting software tool (Coopsaas).

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Customer Stories

Working with Ambivation was a seamless and rewarding experience. From the outset, the team demonstrated a high level of competence and professionalism, making the entire process of our innovation challenge run effortlessly. They have an impressive network of industry connections, which helped us engage with the right partners and ensure high-quality participation. Ambivation was efficient and pleasant at every stage, from helping us define the challenge to managing applicants and keeping everything on track. Communication was always clear and prompt, which made the collaboration incredibly smooth. We were thoroughly impressed with how well they managed the project and exceeded our expectations. Their support played a key role in the overall success of the innovation challenge. I recommend Ambivation to anyone looking for a reliable, highly competent and efficient innovation challenge partner.

Product: Open Innovation Challenge

Case study: Open Innovation Challenge for Elia Group

“The Startup Tour with Ambivation was a great success and everything was very well organized on site. Our CEO Kai Ostermann found the day very successful and exciting, too. The 16 startups that Ambivation scoutet for us were all suitable and we found it very difficult to make a final selection. Whether collaborations with the startups will develop will be seen next year. I would definitely do a startup matchmaking tour of this kind again.”

Product: Startup Tour & Startup Scouting

Case Study: Startup Tour & Scouting for Deutsche Leasing

“At a trade fair, especially at EMO Hannover, start-ups have the opportunity to come into direct contact with over 2000 exhibitors who could become potential partners. In the industrial scene in particular, the trade fair is an ideal platform as you can network directly with established companies. However, some young companies still find this networking difficult and it is all the more valuable if you create sophisticated matchmaking offers like we do – implemented by Ambivation. This is because we can create a simple and fast exchange between new founders and interested investors, but also with established companies. This offers our visitors and regular exhibitors great added value, as they find exactly the new solutions from startups that they were looking for – but might not have found without the support of Ambivation.”

Product: Startup Matchmaking Format (Exhibition)

Case study: Startup Matchmaking at EMO Hannover

“You can expect small, fast and flexible solutions from startups. This is a fresh cell cure for companies. Ambivation helped us to find the most suitable contacts from the large number of local and international startups. This allowed us to concentrate on the content discussions and, with Ambivation’s support, initiate the cooperation.”

Product: Startup Scouting

Case study: Startup Scouting for Nassauische Heimstätte

“I was impressed by the quality of the participants that Ambivation invited to our first meeting. We had the opportunity to speak directly with the top management of a billiondollar company and were able to immediately define the direction of travel for a joint pilot project. Great.”

Product: Innovation Tour

Dr. Jacek Zawisza, CEO and founder Kamioni

About us

Ambivation brings innovation and speed to the street through collaboration.

By bringing established companies together with startups and innovation drivers, we create win-win situations that can go beyond traditional customer-supplier relationships.

We strive to create long-term partnerships that generate entrepreneurial and added value / impact for the society.

We are convinced that open innovation is the right path for sustainable, scalable growth and that our current problems are solved through joint research, learning, development and cooperation.

How our customers describe us:

Bridge builder
Headhunter for Startups
Innovation dating
Matchmaker for Innovation
Startup Mediator
Open Innovation Intermediary
Startup Scout
Innovation Broker
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  • Ambi-Vation GmbH
    RollbergstraĂźe 28A
    12053 Berlin
    Germany

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