Innovation agencies & freelancers board

I’m a strategic design facilitator, collaborator, and educator, bridging the gap between innovation and enterprise for future-oriented ventures, institutions and ecosystem enablers. I care about helping people solve meaningful problems, so they can achieve positive impact in what they do, how they do it, and why they do it. My approach to problem solving and discovering opportunities is through leveraging strategic design and design thinking methodologies in the output of facilitation (workshops, sprints, programs), collaboration (venture building, project-based consulting) and education (teaching, speaking). These methodologies have helped 150+ ventures, 10+ accelerators/incubators, 5+ universities, and ecosystems across Europe and the USA. I have a balanced approach of working both locally and globally, with a focus on building bridges between ecosystems, organizations, regions and countries to ultimately foster more innovation and entrepreneurship.

Innovate Israel is a pioneering consultancy specializing in open innovation, with a proven track record of helping organizations across various industries drive innovation, improve operational efficiency, and gain a competitive edge. To become leaders, organizations must invent, innovate, and develop new technologies while reducing time to market. At the same time, current industry leaders must reinvent themselves and keep up with the technological pace to maintain their position. Our mission is to facilitate the collaboration between established businesses and cutting-edge startups and technology partners, creating a mutually beneficial ecosystem that drives business growth. At Innovate Israel, we are passionate about driving innovation and helping organizations thrive in an ever-evolving global world where technology, customer expectations, and competitive landscapes are in constant flux. Through Innovate Israel, corporations can reduce cost, time to market, and risk factors by leveraging resources and knowledge from the startup ecosystem to create technological solutions. Our approach to open innovation goes beyond conventional boundaries. We believe that innovation knows no limits, and our services are designed to transcend geographical and industry constraints. We aim to create a collaborative ecosystem that fosters growth, efficiency, and unparalleled customer experiences by connecting organizations with the brightest minds and pioneering startups in Israel and worldwide.

mantro is a seasoned innovator, offering a comprehensive range of services in business development, artificial intelligence, and software development for new business creation. With over two decades of experience, we have supported some of the most iconic companies, enabling them to excel in ever-changing markets.

Net Positive Labs has the mission to accelerate the transformation towards a more sustainable world. We work with companies to co-create high growth businesses that fix the dysfunctions of current models and address societal and planetary needs. We do this by mixing circular and regenerative economics with the powers of venture building.

Olga Kisselmann is an expert innovation consultant and workshop facilitator with over 10 years of guiding organizations through digital transformation. She leverages her extensive experience running design sprints, ideation sessions, and requirement-gathering workshops to extract strategic insights and align stakeholders.As a facilitator, Olga utilizes interactive exercises and engaging materials to foster productive collaboration even among distributed teams. Her talent for synthesis enables her to identify consensus and consolidate divergent perspectives into coherent solutions. Olga draws on her expertise in design thinking and agile frameworks to promote iterative, user-centric development. Olga is certified as an Agile Coach, Systemic Coach, Team Facilitator, Product Owner, and Design Sprint Facilitator, Her hands-on approach delivers rapid prototypes and minimum viable products for early market validation. With a passion for coaching, Olga excels at unlocking creativity and empowering teams to reach their highest potential. She guides groups through productive brainstorming, effective prioritization, and conflict resolution. Her mentorship helps orient organizations toward a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Olga couples strategic vision with pragmatic execution to drive tangible outcomes from innovation initiatives. As a high-end consultant, she provides the facilitation, leadership, and oversight required to implement change successfully across global enterprises. Olga’s blend of technical knowledge and interpersonal ability make her an invaluable partner for digital transformation.

Bring startup action to your corporate ambition. We help you build a portfolio of ventures and programs that successfully tap into new opportunities, core and beyond, by leveraging your existing capabilities and our years of proven entrepreneurial experience.

LVenture Group is a Venture Capital company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange that invests in startups and accelerates their growth, generating profits from exit transactions, mainly M&A. LVenture Group is one of the most active pre-seed operators in Southern Europe thanks to its acceleration programme LUISS EnLabs, dedicated to digital startups and created in joint venture with Luiss University. LVenture Group invests in the cleantech and travel tech sectors through its vertical accelerators Zero and Argo. The company conducts Open Innovation programs with leading Italian and international industrial players including Eni, CDP Venture Capital, Leonardo, Intesa Sanpaolo and Meta. To accelerate the development of startups LVenture Group has created a 9,000-square-metre hub inside Termini Station in Rome. From 2013 to date, it has invested in more than 130 startups that have raised a total of more than 180 million euros, 25 million of which were invested directly by the company. LVenture Group has contributed to the creation of more than 1,800 high-value-added jobs.

Ideas Forward offers value-added support services to businesses and organizations willing to operate with a European perspective. Services are designed to provide businesses and organizations with valuable resources of knowledge and infrastructure, in a flexible manner, and help them plan the future while focus on achieving their goals. Ideas forward offers a wide range of services from support, like focused and businesslike information or expertise for your projects, to operating resources such as presence in important events or high-quality meeting places.

Saint Brand venture building is an innovation consultancy focused on accelerating new growth for corporate entities and institutions through the creation of new business models and startups, both in products and services. To this date, Saint Brand, has been responsible for the creation of eight corporate startups, six of which for very large EU groups and in full activity, two corporate accelerators, and is also accountable for more than 60 corporate entities and institutions trained on embracing innovation or project managed to accelerate ventures. Based on its founders 16 years experience in the corporate world for companies such as LinkedIn, Adidas and WPP, Saint Brand positions itself with one key differentiator: Validated learning through execution. Aware of not only the difficulties companies face today to generate new revenue streams, but also the lack of agile and lean startup skills available to build ventures, Saint Brand comes in at hyperspeed with its own firsthand methodology to validate and co-jointly build with its corporate and institutional customers and partners. Furthermore, Saint Brand has also been a core member and contributor to the creation, evaluation and continuous consultation to Serbia's first supercluster – a wise and wishful practice for innovation to be implemented in many more markets. Saint Brand works directly with corporate and institutional entities as well as venture capital firms, where it is also currently engaged in the EU grant with an impact VC, and pure startup accelerators. This allows their proprietary methodology to learn from entrepreneurs and stretch its services From validation 2 pitch coaching as proven for the National Innovation Agency of Portugal and impact programmes such as Blue Bio Value. From its geographical base in Brussels, Saint Brand has embraced the gig economy and is able to scale its efforts in most corners of the world.

We are the strategic partner for the construction of collaborative B2B digital ecosystems. Since 2016, we have been accompanying large companies and corporations to help them grow through a unique open innovation model based on: -Permanent scouting of the best talent for all phases of your digitization processes. -Co-creation processes between corporates, scale-ups and startups. -Work with an international scope in open innovation. -Independence, transparency and Non-Equity.

Found.ation is an innovation management consulting firm that passionately transforms organizations and teams by activating new skills and disruptive methodologies. Originally established in 2011 as one of the first tech incubators in SE Europe, it has since developed to a fully-fledged consultancy for the evolving business world, uniquely positioned at the heart of the innovation landscape in Greece. ​ For the last decade Found.ation has been a core part of the ongoing dialogue shaping and reinforcing the innovation ecosystem.​ We have helped enhance synergies, introduced new players, strengthened relationships across all stakeholders and created new ones, while disrupting conventional thinking.​ To date we have published more than 20 reports and whitepapers that have been downloaded over 10.000 times and mentioned in national and international media.​ For the last 7 years our two Annual Ecosystem Reports have been monitoring the progress of Startups and the Digital Transformation of the industry in the country.​

Founded in 2016, Workinlot provides services to corporations’ innovation portfolio with venture building methodology and intrapreneur in residence workforce. As founders firsts, Workinlot has developed her methodology iteratively, optimizing for fast value creation in every project it has managed, whether the objective is setting innovation priorities, co-creating with startups, startup investments or launching corporate ventures. Workinlot has worked and is experienced in Insurance, Chemicals, Energy, Professional Services, NGO, Technology, Industrial Machinery, Industrial Textiles, Automotive, Defense, Food & Beverages, Smart Cities, Banking, Fintech, Industrial Metals and Entrepreneurship verticals resulting in 50+ innovation projects facilitated.

At InnoSense, we provide digital health consulting, innovation management, and business development services to help businesses in the healthcare industry succeed. We are a digital health consulting firm that specializes in providing innovative solutions for businesses in the healthcare industry.

Igeneris is a Business Design Company: we design, test and launch into the market innovative business models. We do it by working side by side with organizations, as we believe in the power of launching innovative value propositions levering on the core competences, abilities and assets of established companies. We understand Business Model Innovation as the best way to provide our customers with profitable and sustainable growth. Though our roots are part in Madrid and part in Ciudad de México, we have a global mindset.

Growth&Glory is an entrepreneurs-driven consulting platform synergising new climate ventures and corporates on the transition path to a sustainable economy. We connect relevant players, showcase the business value of cutting-edge climate solutions, and devise actionable implementation plans aligned with overarching corporate strategies - all in a practical, down-to-earth manner. Let’s act together to accelerate the transition to net zero!

Henrik Pap is a change and innovation facilitator, specializing in Design Thinking, building Change Agent programs, and leading transformative leadership development projects for corporate professionals.

U+ has already established itself as a key player in corporate venture building and investment. In the last 14 years, they have developed 120+ products and created over 2 billion in new value.

JET growth is an agency focusing on designing and running startup support programs like accelerators, incubators and funds.