The Innocentive Marketplace.

Curated, not crowded.

You're invited.

Funded problems from corporates, governments and investors that are matched to your verified capabilities. Five seats available per segment - yours today, if you claim it.

Claim your seat - $150 a year See demand in your segment

$150 covers curation and administration. Refer three companies and it costs you nothing.

Segment ledger - seats & demand

585 segments · 200 countries · 5 seats per country

You are joining a crowd that works.

Innocentive has been putting real money behind real problems for 25 years. The marketplace is the commercial layer on top of that crowd - where companies, not just individuals, hold a seat against funded demand.

1,000,000+

Solvers, experts, academics & startups

585

Technology segments mapped

180+

Enterprise & government clients

200

Countries active

Why the cap exists

A shortlist beats a directory. Every time.

Every other platform grows by adding suppliers. That is exactly what makes them useless to a buyer: a search returns 500 results and gets ignored. We cap each segment at five companies per country because that is what a corporate scout can actually act on - and it is why being one of the five is worth something.

Each of our 585 technology segments holds a maximum of five companies in any one country - so when a corporate, government or investor searches for capability, they see a shortlist, not a directory.

For you

One of five, not page nine

When demand lands in your segment, you are one of a handful of names in front of the buyer - not one of hundreds competing on SEO.

For the buyer

Curated, not crowded

Enterprises and governments come back because the shortlist is short and every company on it has been verified against the taxonomy.

The adjacency

You hold seats in more segments than you think

Capability is mapped, not self-declared. A precision components firm can hold a seat in cryogenic sealing and hydrogen handling - segments it may never have searched for itself.

The sovereign cut

Five in your country, not five in the world

The cap is national, not global. Governments and regional bodies increasingly want capability found, built and retained within their own borders.

The catch - Seats do not wait

When a segment fills in your country, it closes. This invitation holds your seat for 30 days; after that it is offered to the next verified firm on the reserve list.

Why you were invited

Seen for what you actually do. Not what your sector says.

Your capability was mapped through our work in your sector - not scraped from a registry. The taxonomy reads what you can solve, including the adjacent segments you would never have claimed for yourself.

Worked example

Taxonomy Match - How the taxonomy would read a precision components firm.

585 technology segments

What the classification says

What the taxonomy sees

SIC 28.29 - General machinery

Thermal management - high-cycle

Supplier tier: Automotive

Sealing under cryogenic load

Keyword: "precision components"

Hydrogen handling - adjacent

The same company. One view gets them a supplier newsletter. The other gives them a seat at the table in active, funded segments, backed by real enterprise opportunities.

What you get

Curation and administration.
Not membership

You are not paying to be on a list. You are paying for the human work of verifying your company, profiling your capability against the taxonomy, and matching it against live and anticipated demand - continuously, for as long as you are in.

Anchor benefit

Early sight of funded challenges

Matched challenges reach you before public release, with time to prepare a proper response - and none of the RFI noise of a procurement portal.

Included

Market intelligence in your segments

Access the same sector and technology intelligence our enterprise clients commission, to see how you place in the market - and how your competitors are positioned.

Included

Briefings, webinars, newsletters

Where demand is forming, what buyers are scoping, which segments are heating up.

Every quarter

Your opportunity report

Where you were surfaced, into which searches and scouting briefs, and what demand signals landed against your segments. You see the value, not just the invoice.

The obvious question

Why is a seat only $150?

Because the fee is not how we make money. It covers the administration of holding your seat - verification upkeep, taxonomy profiling, continuous matching. Our revenue comes later, and only if yours does.

What you pay to hold the seat

$150 / year

Curation and administration. Verification upkeep, taxonomy profiling, matching against live and anticipated demand, quarterly reporting. Refundable in effort: refer three verified companies and it costs you nothing.

Straight answers

Isn't this pay-to-play?

No. Buyers never see who paid what - there is nothing to pay for beyond the seat itself. Which five firms hold a segment is decided by capability match at verification, not by spend, and there are no premium tiers to buy your way up a shortlist of five.

Why should I believe demand will reach me?

You'll see it either way. Your quarterly opportunity report shows exactly where you were surfaced - into which searches, scouting briefs and scoping exercises. If the seat isn't earning its keep, you'll know from the report, and you can release it at renewal.

What happens to my IP?

It stays yours. Engagements - funded challenges, licensing, supply contracts, partnerships - happen on your terms, with clearly-stated IP handling. You keep the relationship, the IP and all follow-on revenue.

How it works

You are already through the first two steps.

Verification is the part that takes weeks. It is done. Everything below is what happens once you take the seat.

Step 01

Verified

Done

Your company was identified and verified through our work in your sector. That is why you have this link.

Step 02

Mapped to the taxonomy

Done

Your capability is profiled against the 585 segments - including the adjacent ones you would never have claimed.

Step 03

Claim your seat

Subscribe now

$150 holds it for twelve months. One of five in your country, in each segment you are mapped to.

Step 04

Demand finds you

You are surfaced into scouting searches, technology reports, procurement scoping and open challenges. No cold outreach from you.

Step 05

Engage on your terms

Funded challenges, licensing, supply contracts, partnerships. Your IP stays yours.

Step 06

Move to pilot fast

Our pre-negotiated Master Services Agreement takes months of contracting friction out of the first deal - weeks to a paid pilot, not quarters.

One price. No tiers. No queue.

Twelve months of curation, matching and intelligence for $150. Billed annually. Your seat is live the moment you pay.

$150 $150 / 12 months · USD

Covers curation and administration of your seat in the marketplace.

+Your seat - one of five per country, in every segment you are mapped to
+Early sight of matched, funded challenges before public release
+Market intelligence, briefings and webinars in your segments
+Quarterly opportunity report - where you were surfaced, and to whom
+Access to the pre-negotiated MSA route to pilot

Verified invitation - no application required. Your seat goes live on payment. If we cannot map your capability to the taxonomy, you are refunded in full. Renewal is annual and can be cancelled at any time; a released seat returns to the pool for your country and segment.

Earn by referring organizations to the Marketplace

Every verified company you refer earns you $50. Three referrals and your $150 is covered.

+$50

Get one referral - $50 back. Two more and you get marketplace for free.

Fund or accelerator?

Portfolios come in as a block, screened for relevance at the door, with a fund-level dashboard showing where each company has been surfaced and which segments it holds. Talk to us about portfolio access.