We help you define challenges, discover opportunities, and pick the right startups and technology.
The problem
Innovation leads don't want to choose. They want to get it right. But today's process makes that nearly impossible.
of startups are satisfied with their corporate collaborations.
McKinsey · 2021
of first contacts turn into a real project (PoC or agreement).
Ignite / Sagepub · 2025
higher chance of success with a dedicated unit and a structured process.
Sopra Steria / Ipsos / INSEAD · 2023
Scouting based on personal relationships and Google searches. Weeks for a longlist that's already biased.
Without a well-framed challenge, no platform finds the right startup.
Connections die in unanswered emails. Nobody closes the pilot.
Without metrics, parks can't prove value. Corporates can't justify budget.
How it works
From challenge to pilot. End-to-end traceability.
A clear, comparable technical brief, assisted by an AI agent.
Agentic search across our proprietary database and external sources.
TRL, team, traction, and signs of life.
Technical, company, and overall scores with explicit reasoning.
Fits as video analytics for traffic detection, but lacks evidence of two-way integration with municipal ITS systems.
Automated questionnaire with key questions. No meetings for those who don't pass.
A novel concept in open innovation. Statuses, NDAs, and automatic triggers all the way to the pilot.
Why Qanvit
Specialized matching and a complete process, in one place.
Technology, team, traction, and TRL in real time.
A reproducible process, not a generic chatbot.
Semantic cross-referencing with documented reasoning.
Statuses, scoring, NDAs, and automatic triggers.
From challenge to pilot. Every decision traceable.
Who it's for
Professionalize innovation
Scale your open-innovation programs without growing the team. Generate real impact metrics and prove value to the companies in your ecosystem.
Cut time, improve selection
Turn a fuzzy need into a well-defined challenge, and that challenge into a list of vetted startups ready to work with you. The whole process traced, justifying every decision internally.
Add value beyond returns
Your corporate LPs have challenges and innovation needs. Use Qanvit to connect them with startups that solve their real problems — and stand out as the fund that creates value beyond the return.
Scale your service without scaling your team
Stop running innovation programs on spreadsheets and email. A platform that gives you structure, reporting, and scalability so you can focus on the work that truly adds value for your client.
Scientific basis
Most open-innovation tools solve a partial problem — they find startups, manage calls, or produce reports. But open innovation fails when the process isn't complete.
Methodological framework
Want · Find · Get · Manage
Framework developed by Gene Slowinski and Matthew Sagal, now an international reference in open-innovation processes.
Four capabilities every organization needs to produce real results — not just meetings.
Before searching for anything, you have to know exactly what you need. Without clarity on the need and the value to create, no scouting process works.
Which technologies exist? Where are they? Who has them? It takes people and method to think beyond the usual boundaries.
Once the partner is identified, formalize the relationship with rigor. The decision to move forward must be grounded, not intuition.
The most frequently abandoned phase — and the one that decides whether open innovation produces real projects or just meetings.
Request access
Request access and we'll show you how it works with a real challenge from your organization.
We'll contact you in under 24h. No commitment.