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Hello Tomorrow makes science worth a meeting
A laboratory breakthrough needs someone willing to buy, fund or build it. Hello Tomorrow has made a business of getting those people into the same room.
TechConnect knows who should meet your invention
An obscure engineering search reveals the business behind TechConnect: getting a precise problem in front of people who can solve it, then giving them somewhere useful to meet.
INAM and the art of finding your first industrial customer
A clever material can spend years waiting for someone to use it. Berlin’s INAM brings scientists, manufacturers and investors together around a more useful question: what would it take to buy this?
HugeTECH and the art of getting an idea out of its own way
In Rzeszów, HugeTECH turns startup support into a sequence of practical tests: build the prototype, find the partner, survive the paperwork. Its public programs reveal both the usefulness and the friction of that approach.
The Company That Put a Name on the Future
Cleantech Group’s most consequential product was never a database or a conference. It was a word broad enough to turn scattered technologies into a market - and a market into a meeting place.
Cambridge Cleantech knows who you need to meet
A smart air brick, a Japanese builder and methane trapped in water: Cambridge Cleantech connects climate inventions with people who can buy, test or fund them. Its business is making the next introduction count.
Mosaic Venture Lab wants your startup on the factory floor
The Taipei venture firm connects East Asian technology teams with industrial buyers. Its real test is what happens after the introduction: a pilot, a production partner, or a customer willing to pay.
SOSA puts a price on the right introduction
New Jersey awarded SOSA $2.352 million to help international companies find their footing. From cement investments to public-safety pilots, its business is getting promising technology past the first meeting.
yet2
yet2 is an open innovation and technology scouting firm that helps large corporations find external technologies, partners, and ideas to accelerate their R&D pipelines. Since 1999 it has run an online technology marketplace and a hands-on consulting practice that scouts, vets, negotiates, and closes technology deals across industries from chemicals and consumer health to aerospace and electronics. With offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, yet2 connects its corporate clients to a global network of innovators and a database of millions of technologies and unmet needs.