A program tailored for you
The open innovation service which helps your company to identify and select innovation through a structured startup acceleration journey, designed based on your specific areas of interest.
The advantages
Our model
Acceleration
Integrating the competences achieved by startups into your business processes, in order to create effective and productive collaborations.
Managerial training
The possibility to train your managers, reinforcing competences in the area of research, selection and acquisition of innovation in your company.
Financial analysis and evaluation of startups
Business plan and key variable analysis service, sharing the most commonly used methodologies and metrics for startup evaluation.
Our method
The challenge for startup is a four-phase selection and acceleration program which aims to evaluate the most interesting technologies for the client, facilitating the development of collaborations/ experiments / investments.
Call for startups:
- Search for the best startups on the Italian and international markets through the activation of sectorial networks.
- Selection of the best candidates based on the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center 360° Analysis model and on criteria identified by the client.
Coaching
Access for the selected startups to tools and distinctive competences provided by coaches with international experience in entrepreneurship and Venture Capital.
Selection
- Presentation of all the startups in the program to a panel of experts selected by the client.
- Analysis and evaluation of the startups based on a 4-dimensional evaluation model.
Investor Arena
- Presentation of the startup finalists to the board and the of the client company, moderated by the coaches of the program.
- Analysis and evaluation of the startups by the board and the management of the client company based on a 4-dimensional evaluation model.
- Selection and awards ceremony of the startup winner/s of the acceleration program.