Founded in 2014, VentureFuel is an independent innovation advisory firm that helps clients accelerate the commercializion of emerging technology through startup collaboration. We provides organizations like Comcast NBCUniversal, Biogen, Hershey's, Dick's Sporting Goods, AARP Foundation and the State of California with the tools to drive transformative change with less risk, more speed and greater proximity to the market than traditional innovation models.
What We Do
We build innovation engines that meet organizations where they are, to collaborate with the best enterprise ready startups.
Research, Strategy
Our team can analyze your innovation practice vs. key competitors to help you gain insights into best-in-class external innovation programs; identify on-ramps to emerging technologies; and the key growth areas they unlock.
Outcomes: An external POV on industry best practices, including a gap analysis of opportunity areas with a recommended roadmap for how best to close them.
Pilots, Proof of Concepts
Commercialization is key to retaining a competitive advantage. Our pilot programs deliver targeted identification of commercially viable (product/service/tech) innovations and facilitate agreements to run experiments of those technologies across your business. These experiments address specific strategic pain points or capability gaps. We don't just deliver lists of startups operating in those spaces; we source, vet and facilitate introductions that lead to tangible outcomes with post-pilot scale up opportunities.
Outcomes: Engagement with top startups in a specific emerging tech sector to deliver vetted pilots for commercial tests of new solutions.
Next Generation Product Co-Development
Partner with the world's best enterprise-ready startups to accelerate R&D and derisk M&A. Take a collaborative and cohort-based approach to identifying and testing emerging technologies that have the potential to address gaps in core products or surface opportunities to enter new and emerging markets.
Outcomes: Collaboration with an external R&D team over an 8-week sprint to deliver a new-to-world minimum viable product.
Corporate Accelerators
We build custom, white label corproate accelerators for our clients that are designed to meet their strategic objectives; these programs can be 'stealth' or public, delivering strategic, financial and reputational benefits based on your objectives.
Outcomes: Investment and/our commercial agreements with startups providing novel solutions to critical strategic industry challenges.
We Work with the World's Best Organizations
A New Way To Fuel Your Transformation
Collaborate with the world's best startups to learn , test, build or invest in innovative solutions to today's most pressing business challenges.
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