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Helping the world's best enterprise organizations commercialize innovation to ignite change.

Congratulations to this year's winners!

Meet our Grand Prize winner, Petit Pot; and pitch competition winners Pluff, Projo*, Smearcase, and Todo. We can't wait to see how these companies and all members of our 2024 cohort continue to scale their dairy-based products and innovations and shape the future of the dairy aisle.

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Inside the Innovation Huddle | Food Service

Our team has an ongoing internal huddle throughout the year: a team meeting where we share the most disruptive and exciting startups and emerging technologies from around the world. The only rule is that they can’t solve a current client challenge directly. This way, we retain our superpower of spotting creative adjacencies and disruptive outer-horizon solutions.

Click below to meet our selection of startups that's shaping the future of food service.

MEET THE EMERGING TECH STARUPS

We are thrilled to announce this year’s finalists for Visionary and Venture of the Year!

Nominated and voted on by their peers, the VentureFuel Visionary and Venture of the Year recognizes the individuals and organizations blazing new paths to power the future. Vote today!

2023 VISIONARY OF THE YEAR

2023 VENTURE OF THE YEAR

Next Generation Product Development: Commercializing What's Next Now

Innovation is vital for success in today's fast-changing business world. Large corporations and startups each have unique strengths and weaknesses, creating opportunities for strategic partnerships to leverage these advantages through new product co-development.

ACCELERATE INNOVATION

VentureFuel Visionaries

Visionaries possess remarkable foresight and creativity, transforming ideas into reality. Our podcast features guests from executives to innovators, discussing their roles in shaping the future and driving change in business and society.

MEET THESE VISIONARIES

NFL TO VENTURE

Champion Venture Partners Founder Marques Colston

In the episode, we talk about the emerging opportunities in sports beyond the Big 5 leagues and why media rights and appointment viewing will continue to expand. We also explore how technology is creating a competitive advantage at both the team and league levels.

LEAP VENTURE STUDIO

Rachel Sheppard

In this episode, we discuss the future of pet care, exciting startups, and new technologies, as well as how to find adjacent and emerging opportunities. We also look at the value of holding frameworks lightly in the fast-moving world of innovation.

PATH AHEAD VENTURES

REI Dan Kihanya

In this episode, we discuss how diversity drives innovation. We also discuss how Path Ahead Ventures is closing the gap between the 1% of founders who identify as people of color and the 30%+ of outdoor participants who identify as such.

SOLVING CORPORATE CHALLENGES VIA STARTUP COLLABORATIONS

HELPING OUR CLIENTS IGNITE CHANGE

Future-proof for tomorrow. Show results today.

We help our clients address their biggest strategic challenges more quickly, with less risk and greater impact than traditional innovation models by partnering with the best enterprise-ready startups today!

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Global Innovation Network

A worldwide network of VCs, Seed Investors, Accelerators, University Labs and Scouts grant us unparalleled, advanced access to novel solutions.

Our team of unbiased corporate strategists build custom programs designed to achieve your goals with vetted partners who can deliver results.

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Win-Win Results. 100+ innovation programs resulting in over $12M in revenue for startups now collectively valued at over $2B.

In The Press

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Client Programs

We’ve been privileged to grow with a game changing community of global corporate innovators throughout the years.

Here are a few programs that have been forged through our collaborations.

VentureFuel POV

Disrupt or be disrupted? At VentureFuel, we believe that there's got to be a better way. Transformative change can best be achieved through collaboration. Check out our point of view on the future, the role of external innovation; and the opportunities for collaboration to drive growth.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Disruption Insurance: Protecting Your Company’s Future

Why do household names like Hertz, Brooks Brothers, Blockbuster, Sears or Gold's Gym go bankrupt, while less resourced companies in the same space thrive?

CES Diamonds in the Sand

CES over-indexes on noise. Most lean into consumer gimmickry: smart toilets, transparent televisions, ai-enabled dog collars. But there are enterprise relevant signals hidden in the corners of Eureka Park and hotel suites, where you can find diamonds of what’s next. Here are a few highlights I thought you would enjoy.

3 Ways to Determine If You Need External Innovation

External Innovation is the process of augmenting your internal innovation efforts by collaborating with independent startups developing new products, services and technologies. Here are 3 telltale signs that you need to consider external innovation.

VentureFuel Events

Our events unite leading investors, founders, and corporate innovators to discuss the transformation of business and society through product, service, and technological innovation. Click on a tile below to check out a past events.

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