WE UNLOCK YOUR INNOVATION POTENTIAL
We enable innovation with our products and services.
We love innovation
We are a team of innovation experts who believe in the combination of corporate power with startup agility. Our tools and services enable corporate innovation teams and startups to accelerate their business ideas in a successful and sustainable way.
Innovation Strategy
Every company is unique. We assess your innovation readiness and build a customized innovation strategy with and for you.
Corporate Innovation
With our validated services and programs, we help you set up and execute sustainable innovation activities.
Innovation Tools
Our products and tools guide corporate teams and startups from business idea to success.
Ciao, Italia! Celebrating our new partnership with tree in Italy
We are excited to announce our partnership with tree, an Italy-based innovation consultancy. Complementing our WhatAVenture office in South Tyrol, tree is our exclusive partner of the rest of Italy. The innovation spirit now spreads throughout Italy – positioning ourselves as an even stronger player in all of Europe. Like us, tree has a strong focus on intrapreneurship and startup programs with leading corporations. We are very happy to welcome this awesome team of experts to our network – and we can’t wait for what’s to come!
How we work
We unlock the innovation potential of leading organizations by applying processes that are validation-driven, result-oriented, and scalable. Our acceleration process was created together with leading accelerators, international universities and was enhanced by the learnings from supporting more than 2,000 corporate innovation teams and startups.
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Validation-driven
- Result-oriented
- We understand corporates
We help corporates to innovate like startups
From a holistic corporate accelerator to individual innovation activities – we help you to execute your innovation activities and get our hands dirty for you. We either support your existing innovation department with know-how and sustainable tools or we support your organization with full-service innovation management.
Fail, learn, and iterate is not only a slogan.
Intrapreneurship
Unleash the innovation potential of your employees by setting up the needed structures and education. Let them become innovation drivers inside your company.
Corporate Startup Engagement
Startups are a great source for new technologies and business ideas but collaboration is not always easy, we are here to help.
Training & Education
Sustainably change your employees’ mindsets with training and education. We equip them with the methods and skills for successful innovation.
Our services
Innovation
Strategy
Develop an innovation strategy that produces results.
Startup
Scouting
We find the right startups, technologies, and trends for your innovation goals.
Team Building
& Idea Generation
Build joint teams around selected ideas, technologies, and employees that are keen to produce results.
Validation
& Acceleration
Validate business ideas by testing hypotheses, getting customer feedback, and accelerate to success.
Execution
& Scaling
Get your idea or technology on the road and build a profitable business.
Startup Scouting
We believe in the combination of startup agility and corporate power. Startups need infrastructure, access to markets, and know-how, while corporates need new products and services to stay competitive. We find the perfect startups in your search field.
- Large startup database
- 3,000+ applications worldwide
- Huge network of multipliers
- All verticals & industries
Innovation Platform
Manage, guide and educate all your innovation teams. Our Innovation Platform is the online solution for your intrapreneurship and innovation programs.
- Ideation: Collect, review and validate ideas
- Incubation: Build & validate your idea in 6 steps
- Proven methods: Business Model Canvas & Blue Ocean Diagram included
- Empower Self Learning: Best-practice examples and inspiration
Our programs & initiatives
Revolutionize industries with us! We are looking for startups, talents, and experts that want to team up with our customers and change the world.
Open Calls
Innovation use cases
Brain food and best practice examples for innovation managers.
Global innovation offices
We are an international player in the exciting board game called Innovation with a global network of experts, startups, mentors, and academic institutions.
Austria Germany Italy Peru
Our products
Our products & tools empower to innovate.
Innovation Platform
Innovation Box
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WhatAVenture really got our employees’ attention, motivated them to leave their comfort zone and gave them the courage to simply try out ideas – and that was the exact goal!
Martina Tagunoff
Innovation Manager, ÖAMTC
It was an excellent keynote speech on guiding business ideas to investment-readiness, as part of our Executive Innovation Program. Thanks to the profound theoretical knowledge and vivid examples, our top-level management obtained deep insights into business modelling in the field of mobility.
Yvonne Pirkner
Open Innovation Project Leader, ÖBB
Innovation is of major importance to us in order to give people in need the best support and care possible. With the support of WhatAVenture we were able to significantly develop our innovation management further. WhatAVenture perfectly understood our needs and developed sustainable strategies, processes and tools in a joint effort with our team following lean innovation principles.
