Start2 x Venture Clienting: Leverage Our Startup Experience – Find Better Startups Faster

Since 2008, Start2 Group has been building startups, ecosystems, and innovation programs across 30+ countries around the globe.

Over the years, an increasing number of corporate innovators also tapped into this ecosystem. Corporate innovation teams have increasingly benefited from our growing expertise working with founders and startups from early-stage to unicorn. What started with connecting corporates to founders grew into building innovation capabilities inside large corporations: intrapreneurship programs, in-house incubators and accelerators, and even venture building initiatives.

As demand for open innovation grew steadily, our corporate programs and deep startup network have given us a strong reputation as a hands-on solution provider and put us in a unique position to meet corporate innovation needs.

Experience working with 6,000+ startups across all industries and technology fields taught us one important lesson: access to startups alone does not create innovation impact. Corporates need a systematic way to identify strategic problems, validate and activate startup solutions, and scale what works. This is why we doubled down on venture clienting (also known as corporate-startup partnerships).

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GlassDollar and Start2 Group joined forces

In February 2026, we signed a strategic partnership with GlassDollar, the leading venture clienting software provider. Start2 Group took over the customer-facing service team, while GlassDollar put its energy into what it does best: refining and expanding its venturing clienting software.

Now corporate clients benefit even more from our startup experience and a new scalable service offering, which covers:

•    Systematic challenge identification and prioritization

•    Comprehensive startup sourcing and validation

•    PoC design and management from challenge to rollout

•   Adoption and scaling support with dedicated KPIs

•   Continuous stakeholder coordination and impact tracking

Our offering is uniquely positioned to quickly assess the best-fitting startup solutions. Start2 clients can focus on the highest-impact opportunities, thoroughly assessed against market readiness, strategic fit, and innovation potential. Hands-on operational support keeps business units, startups, procurement, IT, and legal departments aligned, and projects moving. Selected solutions are tested against clear business objectives and KPIs, with full transparency from first challenge to rollout. Consequently, successful PoCs translate into measurable business impact with the potential of broader implementation across our clients’s organization.

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Global Venture Clienting Powered by Start2 Group

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Become the corporate that founders want to work with

Today, Start2 consults and runs global venture clienting operations for a portfolio of leading corporations. Working directly with key business units, we turn innovation initiatives into PoC campaigns that create measurable impact within the organization.

With 150+ people in 20 locations across 33 markets in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, we can run initiatives where you need them, for hidden champions and global corporations alike.

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Whether you are aiming to enhance your product or service portfolio by integrating startup solutions or are looking for efficiency gains by applying startup solutions within your core organization, Start2 has the right type of service for you. Modular by design: engage us for building and operating your full venture clienting process or plug us in exactly where your team needs support most.

Do you want to know how Start2 Group can scale the impact of your corporate innovation work? Reach out for an introductory consultation, or book a session with one of our senior venture clienting experts here.

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