From external
innovation
to integrated partnership.
We help established organizations bring external innovations into their business — structured, validated, and built for integration.
Most corporate venturing
expands your market dies in slides.
Since 2017, we've studied why external innovation initiatives fail. The patterns are predictable — and avoidable when you have a process built for integration, not for pitch days.
Pilots that never scale
70% of corporate venturing initiatives don't deliver expected results. The technology works; the integration doesn't.
Sourcing without focus
Scouting tools list 300 startups for every brief. None of that becomes a decision without a sharpened search field and the right partner selection.
No operational owner
External innovation that lives only in an innovation team is theatre. It needs a business unit on the hook from day one.
Decisions, not demos
Boards don't fund demos. They fund partnership decisions backed by validated business cases. That's what we deliver.
From need to integration, in four moves.
Explore
Together we identify and prioritize the innovation areas where external partnerships create the most leverage for your business.
Define
We sharpen the target vision, search fields, and decision criteria — the foundation that prevents the most common reason innovations fail: the wrong partner choice.
Identify
We curate qualified solution providers from our network of 30,000+ partners and beyond — matched to your criteria through structured scoring, not gut feeling.
Validate & Scale
We guide Proofs of Concept end-to-end and deliver the validated business case your board needs to decide on integration, scaling, or long-term partnership.
Two ways to plug us in.
Public-Enabled Venturing as a low-risk entry into Corporate Venturing — or Venturing as a Service as your continuous external venturing capacity. We'll match you to the right next step on a 30-min call.
Public-Enabled Venturing
For organizations entering Corporate Venturing with structure and limited risk. We deliver end-to-end programs co-funded by public partners — from the Hessen Ministry of Economics to the BMWK and the European Union.
- Co-funded by public partners — significantly reduced budget requirements with no application burden for you
- Defined program timelines (4–6 months) with clear decision milestones
- End-to-end execution from challenge definition to validated pilot
Venturing as a Service
For companies that need external innovation capabilities continuously — without building or expanding their fixed inhouse capacities. We integrate as your operational extension and provide screening, scouting, and capability-building across a 6–24 month engagement. At the top of the range, VaaS becomes an embedded venturing unit with full strategic and operational ownership — ideal for organizations going beyond one-off projects.
- Continuous market screening on your priority innovation fields
- On-demand solution scouting when concrete use cases emerge
- Capability-building to anchor venturing in your organization
What partners say after delivery.
We chose ekipa after comparing several providers. Starting with ekipa was the easiest because we could try a specific program first, instead of committing to a platform long-term. The result convinced us so much that we've already worked with ekipa three times.
Working with ekipa has really moved us forward. Their hinge function enables access to a vast network of startups and graduates.
ekipa built this bridge for us — with their excellent access to an extensive startup ecosystem and their mediation skills.
Map your Corporate Venturing opportunity in 30 minutes.
- Sharpened analysis of your innovation priorities and integration constraints
- Concrete recommendations on the right engagement model — Public-Enabled Venturing or Venturing as a Service
- Transparent look at our methodology, references, and 200+ successful innovation projects
