There are several ways to discover early and later-stage start-ups for partnering:
- You can talk to the ones you accidentally find or who reach out to you.
- You can publish start-up collaboration opportunities on your website or on open innovation platforms.
- You can hit Google. Or browse databases from, for example, Dealroom, PitchBook, F6S, and Crunchbase.
- Or, you can outsource the search to consultancies, scouting service providers, and list brokers.
Scouting for start-ups is expensive and suffers from an inherent data quality problem.
The financial commitment for external services (out-of-pocket cost) or internal resources (salaries) can be as much as Euro 250.000 per annum.
What's more, start-ups come and go and change overnight. That's the nature of the beast. So, start-up profiles are incomplete by definition.
Imagine if you knew which start-ups were researching collaboration for goals like yours? That could boost your hit-fit ratios and lower the search cost.
With collaboration intent data, you can.
These represent a huge opportunity to change start-up discovery for the better.
Companies can connect with the right start-ups at the right moment. Start-ups will appreciate the company's responsiveness saving them much time.
Scoutely is the only platform that collects intent data.
Scoutely not only stacks and integrates multiple start-up sources to cast a wider net. It's also the only platform that collects collaboration intent data to complement the scouting output. And increase the data accuracy and completeness.
That way, you can perfect your pipelining efforts. And find best-fitting start-ups for partnering faster.
Contact us. We'd love to show you how it works.
