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InnovationForce
InnovationForce is a Durham, North Carolina software company behind InnovationWorks, an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps organizations run structured innovation at scale. Founded by CEO Kim Getgen and Harvard Business School professor Dr. Linda Hill, the platform turns organizational documents into sharp problem statements, then matches those challenges against a library of thousands of peer-validated solutions - claiming teams reach decisions roughly 85% faster and complete pilots far sooner. It has become especially well known in the energy and utilities sector, and was named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Workplace Solutions of 2024 and Inc.'s Best in Business 2024.
Kim Getgen
Kim Getgen is the founder and CEO of InnovationForce, an AI-powered innovation management platform born in Durham, North Carolina. She bootstrapped the company by moving in with her parents and selling her car, then watched it land on Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Workplace Solutions list and bring 165+ utilities onto a single collaboration platform. Named one of Inc.'s Top 500 Female Founders of 2025, she has spent two-plus decades shoving legacy industries (energy, cybersecurity) toward the future before the future arrives without them.
XLSCOUT
XLSCOUT is an AI-powered intellectual property and innovation platform that uses large language models and generative AI to compress patent work that used to take days into minutes. Spun out of patent-research firm TT Consultants and launched in 2020, its suite of LLM modules - Novelty Checker, Drafting, Invalidator, ClaimChart, PatDigger, TechScaper and the Ideacue ideation tool - helps R&D teams, corporations and law firms validate ideas, run prior art and invalidity searches, draft patents, map infringement and monetize portfolios. The platform is SOC 2 Type II certified, serves clients in more than 100 countries, and counts Mitsubishi, NTT, Osram and IIT Madras among its users.