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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 startup & innovation partnerships.

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 & partners to cooperation management – we are always at your side on your path to successful innovation. We offer a wide range of products and services to future-proof your business by providing you with the best startups and innovation providers. Our work is software-supported, industry-agnostic and customer-oriented.

Scouting

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

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

By organizing Innovation & Startup Challenges, clients find top partners for their fields of innovation. Through targeted scouting and communication work, we identify more suitable partners, help with the selection and support the initiation of cooperation.

Matchmaking Formats & Events

We support and organize matchmaking formats & matchmaking events that bring companies and startups together in order to discover synergies and initiate collaborations that promote innovation and growth.

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 innovations and the creation of successful partnerships.

Further services

We also offer other services that serve to initiate successful win-win collaborations. For example, our PoC and cooperation initiation, the Startup Scouting Masterclass, the startup challenges platform and our Startup Scouting software solution.

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Customer Stories

“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

Dr. Simone Planinsek, Head of Project/Innovation Management

“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

Sven Siering, Head of Digital Innovation Unit, Deutsche Leasing AG

“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

Stephanie Simon, Project Manager Trade Fairs VDW - German Machine Tool Builders' Association

“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: Startup Get to know

Dr. Jacek Zawisza, CEO and founder Kamioni

The speed dating was a successful format for bringing company representatives and innovative Berlin university startups together and thus initiating cooperation between the right players. As a partner, Ambivation implemented the speed dating very professionally and connected both sides personally.”

Product: Startup Matchmaking (Event Speed-Dating)

Dr. Philip Steden, Division Manager at Berlin Partner

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    RollbergstraĂźe 28A
    12053 Berlin
    Germany

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 always strive to create long-term partnerships that generate entrepreneurial and social added value.

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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