OUR INSIGHT

With today’s markets evolving at an increasingly fast rate, large corporations are looking to launch new activities more rapidly.

However, these ideas are often too forward-thinking or are outside a company’s core competencies, and the company is ill-equipped to develop these ideas through a “traditional” approach.

Launching these ideas in the form of independent startups helps avoid this pitfall while still making them more agile and efficient, and infusing them with entrepreneurial energy.

The solution: create a structure that can mechanize the creation and development of these startups while still benefiting from the unique strengths of a large organization and protecting its strategic interests.

This structure is the corporate startup studio.

OUR INSIGHT

With today’s markets evolving at an increasingly fast rate, large corporations are looking to launch new activities more rapidly.

However, these ideas are often too forward-thinking or are outside a company’s core competencies, and the company is ill-equipped to develop these ideas through a “traditional” approach.

Launching these ideas in the form of independent startups helps avoid this pitfall while still making them more agile and efficient, and infusing them with entrepreneurial energy.

The solution: create a structure that can mechanize the creation and development of these startups while still benefiting from the unique strengths of a large organization and protecting its strategic interests.

This structure is the corporate startup studio.
“The corporate startup studio model allows us to test concepts rapidly in the marketplace, in the real economy, and to determine their profitability. It permits us to work and think outside of the box, based on ideas we wouldn’t have had otherwise.”

Jean BERTRAND-HARDY | Director of Strategy, Business Development and Innovation ENGIE France BtoC


 

HOW WE WORK

1
We co-create the studio


  • We define the field of exploration
  • Define the objectives and the budgets
  • Organize complementary staffing, and
  • Create the company.


2
We co-create startups


  • We maintain regular contact with your marketing and R&D departments concerning new concepts, new regulations, and new technologies
  • Implement an ideation process: following an initial innovation phase, we embed creativity as part of the on-going development.
  • Evaluate, and perform market research, prototyping and commercial pilot projects, with the support of the lab
  • Search for entrepreneurial co-founders, who will participate in developing the ideas, and Co-found startups


3
We co-manage the startups on a daily basis, alongside the entrepreneurs.


We provide functional expertise depending on the needs:

  • Tech
  • Product
  • Sales
  • Communication
  • Administration / Finances
  • HR

We identify and implement synergies with your organization:

  • R&D
  • Communication
  • Distribution
  • Regulation

We support capital requirements:

  • Fundraising
  • Exit


“For corporations, the goal is no longer simply to collaborate with existing startups, but rather to co-found ambitious startups, with entrepreneurs, based on the companies’ strategic issues. Wefound is the perfect tool to do that.”

Gilles Debuchy, CEO and founder of Wefound.

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