Now live: Innocentive Marketplace. Get shortlisted for funded opportunities today.

Marketplace · For Companies

Connect with the world's biggest companies, every day

Whether you're a start-up, scale-up, established business or university research spin-off, Innocentive Enterprise customers are actively looking for technologies to invest in, incubate, accelerate, partner with or buy. There are two ways to become visible to them - and the first one is free.

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Two ways in

Two ways to get in front of global enterprise buyers

The Innocentive Crowd is open and free.

Any company or individual can join, at no cost, and start responding to Challenges posted by some of the world's largest enterprises, foundations and government bodies. There is no fee, no application and no waiting list.

The Innocentive Marketplace is different.

It is a curated, deliberately limited directory of the technologies our Enterprise customers are searching for - a small number of places in each technology segment, in each country. Because places are limited, companies request to join rather than simply register. Requesting takes a couple of minutes - give us your website, and we assess your technology ourselves.

Free to join the Crowd.
Request to join the Marketplace.

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The Crowd (free)

Join the Innocentive Crowd - there's no charge

Joining the Crowd costs nothing. It takes a few minutes, and once you're in you'll receive details of the Challenges our global Enterprise customers run - real, funded problems with defined awards attached. Many of the commercial relationships that start on Innocentive begin with a Challenge submission, not a directory listing.

Join the Crowd for free

  • No fee to join.

  • Open to companies of any size, and to individuals.

  • Immediate access to live Challenges from global enterprises and charities.

  • Cash awards and, in many cases, ongoing commercial relationships.

  • Part of a community of more than one million solvers, subject matter experts, academics and start-ups.

The Marketplace (request to join)

Request to join the Innocentive Marketplace

The Marketplace exists to give our Enterprise customers a short, high-signal list of credible technology providers - not an unfiltered database. To keep that signal strong, we limit the number of companies admitted to each technology segment in each country.

That limit is the point. It's what makes a Marketplace listing worth having, and it's why we ask companies to request a place rather than simply register for one.

Requesting is quick. Give us your website address and an email address, and our team takes it from there - we research your technology ourselves and come back to you.

Request to join the Marketplace

What a place gives you:

  • Visibility to Enterprise customers searching for their next technology partner, accelerator or incubator cohort.

  • Discovery through Jen, our conversational AI, which matches your capability to problems you may not know exist.

  • A profile held against a detailed technology taxonomy, so you're found for what you actually do.

  • Consideration for scouting, partnering and investment briefs as they arise.

Why customers use the Marketplace

Why our customers choose the Innocentive Marketplace

Because it's built on innovation data, not financial data

The Marketplace draws on more than 20 years of proprietary innovation data, third-party sources, global start-ups and the experts of the Innocentive Crowd. Most start-up datasets describe how a company is funded. Ours describes what a company can solve.

We've trained our conversational AI, Jen, on two decades of Problem:Solution data. That lets Jen understand the adjacencies between a problem and a solution, and return answers that a keyword search would miss - including matches to markets a company hasn't yet considered entering.

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How to request a place

How requesting a place works

A couple of minutes from you. The assessment is on us.

  1. 01

    Tell us who you are.

    Give us your website URL and an email address and we'll do the rest. No forms to write, no deck to prepare, no pitch.

  2. 02

    We do the work.

    Our team assesses your technology independently, and checks whether a place is available.

  3. 03

    We come back to you.

    If a place is available, we'll confirm your listing and the terms. If your segment is full, we'll tell you, and you can ask to be notified when a place opens.

Marketplace listings carry an annual curation fee. Crowd membership doesn't.

Not sure which is right for you?

Start with the Crowd. It's free, it's immediate, and it puts you in front of live Challenges from global organisations straight away. If your technology fits a Marketplace segment, you can request a place at any time.

Join the Crowd - free Request to join the Marketplace