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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.
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.