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Three things every innovation manager worries about (but rarely says out loud)

If you are responsible for innovation at a large organization, your job is harder than it looks from the outside.

This is too risky

“What if this pilot goes nowhere?”

You need innovation that pays off, and a way to tell which opportunities are worth the effort.

Every pain point gets a score, and every solution is checked against your must-haves before a pilot starts.

I’m losing control

“Who is talking to which startup?”

You own innovation for the whole company, but you can’t see who is doing what with whom.

One shared record of every contact, demo and decision, across all business units.

Nobody sees what I do

“Will anyone notice what we delivered?”

You have to prove your work matters before the next budget round.

Impact in euros for every pilot, in a report finance can use as it is.

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"Huge advantage from day one."

We strived for innovation with controlled risk and clear results, knowing which opportunities are worth pursuing and running enough of them to guarantee real impact. With GlassDollar, all our projects are now centrally tracked. Every running pilot, every partnership, every outcome visible to the whole team in one place. And today we can say we have proven that Startup Partnering at TRUMPF is a profitable investment in our future.

Florian Meßner-Schmitt

Head of Corporate Innovation

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The numbers from customers who run innovation as a system

Across hundreds of enterprise innovation programs, the outcomes are consistent.

Verified business impact

€500M+

across customer business cases

Pilot & implementation rate

~1 in 4

assessed suppliers get piloted or implemented

Scale rate

~59%

of completed pilots scale into adoption

Every step of your innovation process, in one platform

From the first pain point to a proven business result, every step runs in GlassDollar.

See where innovation demand actually comes from

Collect pain points from business units and map stakeholders, so it's clear where demand actually is. Business units get their own interface, while the innovation team keeps full visibility.

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Evaluate confidently, decide faster

Compare solutions across must-have criteria and reach-out in bulk with automated RFIs. See who's been contacted, what demos happened, and what each team concluded, company-wide. No duplicate outreach. No lost context.

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History across your company

4 teams, one shared record

Run pilots that actually prove value

Use default best practices or build your own custom workflows to match exactly how you work. With automatically assigned tasks and notifications, all stakeholders know the current status.

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Every department can participate. The innovation team stays in control.

GlassDollar isn’t built for the innovation team alone. Any business unit can search for solutions, submit pain points and join projects, while the innovation team keeps full oversight of what moves forward.

Innovation Manager

“How do I scale innovation beyond my own team without losing oversight?”

Full access to the platform
Decide which solutions get evaluated, which pilots get approved and what leadership sees
Set permissions by team, track every project and report impact company-wide

Head of Business Unit

“There must be a solution for this. How do I find it without bothering the innovation team every time?”

Describe your need in plain language and search for matching solutions
Send needs straight into the innovation manager’s pipeline
No innovation expertise needed

Everything your innovation program needs, without the extra tools

50+ capabilities, organized around how innovation programs actually work.

Discovery

Find the right solutions among 20M+ companies, with AI matches or expert help when the need is hard to pin down.

Get told which companies to look at next
Get an expert shortlist within 5 days
Post a challenge and let startups come to you
Keep up with competitor moves and trends

Evaluation

Compare, score and get stakeholders aligned before anyone commits.

Check every company against your must-haves
See how well each company fits, at a glance
Let the whole team vote on the shortlist
Send one RFI to your whole shortlist

Collaboration

Give every business unit a way in, without losing central oversight.

Give each business unit its own space
Know who owns which problem in each unit
Never contact the same startup twice
See every past contact, demo and verdict

Pilot management

Run every PoC on one board, with the full history one click away.

Shape the board around your own process
Tasks land with the right person automatically
Hear about changes without chasing anyone
Find any project by team, site or budget

Reporting

Turn pilot results into proof that holds up in a leadership review.

Put a euro figure on every pilot
Hand finance a report, no Excel rebuild needed
Compare your unit with 70+ corporates
Export to Excel or CSV whenever you need

Security and IT

What your IT review will ask about, already covered.

GDPR compliant and TISAX certified
Log in with your company account (SSO, MFA)
Connect it to the systems you already run
Keep projects private, invite-only or open

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What differentiates GlassDollar's recommendations

There are thousands of company databases. But there is only one dataset built specifically around what actually happened when enterprises and solutions met, which ones got piloted, which ones worked, and which ones did not.

Collaborations tracked

400,000+

corporate-startup partnerships

Growing live

Companies in database

20M+

startups & corporates indexed

PoCs processed this year

700

since Jan 1, 2026

Counting now

Years of real data

implementations, benchmarks & learnings

Since 2018

What innovation teams say after running programs on GlassDollar

Case Study

Found the right startups, fast

We were looking for an innovative solution to quickly identify startups perfectly fitting our innovation challenges, and thanks to GlassDollar, we found it.

Luca Volterrani

Innovation Ecosystem Lead

Testimonial

Faster startup decisions across Siemens

With GlassDollar, we’ve transformed how we engage with startups across Siemens. It helps us align teams, surface synergies, and make smarter, faster decisions at scale.

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Julian Boha

Program Head Startup Collaboration

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Venture clienting, up and running

GlassDollar helped to kick start the Venture Client approach which will speed up Infineon's digitalization efforts.

Lamin Ben-Hamdane

Head of Start-Up Cooperation & Partnerships

Testimonial

The core tool of MAHLE's venture clienting team

GlassDollar’s vclOS has become an essential tool for our Venture Clienting team, allowing us to systematically evaluate startups and track PoCs. Most importantly, it has boosted our identification of the most promising startups.

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Selina Lehmann

Innovation Manager

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2.5x more PoCs, €15M in measured impact

GlassDollar helped us increase our number of PoCs by more than 2.5x and measure a tangible business impact of €15M, which we were able to report to our management and other stakeholders.

Mathias Weber

Head of BSH Startup Kitchen

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Scouting with structure and data

With GlassDollar, we gained access to a structured and data-driven approach to scouting startups, making it easier to discover and evaluate the most relevant technologies for our needs.

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Michael Holtkamp

Venture Partner

Security that meets enterprise requirements

Your data stays safe with enterprise-level protection. GlassDollar is TISAX-certified and trusted by leading corporates to meet the highest security standards.

GDPR compliant

Your data stays private and legally protected.

Multi-factor authentication

Only verified users can access your account.

TISAX certified

Trusted security standard for automotive industry data.

Single sign-on

One login grants access to everything instantly.

Works with the tools your organization already uses

Share insights outside the platform, run analysis in your own tools, and keep workflows in sync. Export to CSV and XLS, connect via API, and integrate with the systems your procurement, finance, and IT teams already use.

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Common questions

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Services

Can GlassDollar also run the process for us?

Yes. Beyond the software, we offer hands-on services that our experienced VCL team delivers through exclusive partnerships, including expert startup sourcing, end-to-end PoC management, and workshops. So whether you want to operate independently or have us run it, we've got you covered. Contrary to consultancies, we are interested in enabling you do it independently.

Do you help with finding specific solutions?

Yes. Our sourcing service delivers a curated shortlist of vetted startups in five days, fully managed by our team, backed by the dataset.

For enterprise teams

What kind of companies use GlassDollar?

Large and mid-size enterprises with active innovation or startup collaboration programs. Typically running multiple collaborations per year and needing a systematic way to manage them. Customers span automotive, energy, financial services, and manufacturing.
For companies that have not developed an innovation function, our platform serves as the perfect starting point to create a decentralized system.

Is GlassDollar a consulting firm or a software platform?

Software. Your team operates it directly. We don't run projects on your behalf — we give you the tools and data to source and manage startup collaborations faster and more systematically. If you need hands-on support, our service packages cover that too.

How is GlassDollar different from other innovation tools?

GlassDollar covers the full workflow, from AI-powered sourcing to PoC management, backed by a proprietary dataset of 400,000+ real corporate-startup collaborations. Built for teams that need to move from finding startups to running pilots without switching tools.

I'm already using ChatGPT or Claude. How is GlassDollar different?

They're built for different jobs.
General-purpose AI returns the most probable answer, the well-known startups you could have named yourself. The ones that actually change an innovation decision are the non-obvious ones: early-stage, specialized, under-covered. That's a structural gap, and it doesn't close as models improve, better AI gives you better reasoning, not data it was never trained on.
GlassDollar runs on a proprietary dataset of 400,000+ corporate-startup relationships plus 7 years of actual PoC data. Thus, instead of a confident-looking list with unknown gaps, you get startups matched to a specific pain point, with the track record to back them up, inside structured PoC workflows where decisions actually get made.

How quickly can a team get started?

Technically within a few days. Your internal alignment, procurement sign-off, and stakeholder buy-in tend to set the pace.

For startups

Is GlassDollar free for startups?

Always. We match startups to corporate innovation teams at no cost. Selected startups receive on average €20k for a paid proof of concept, and 40%+ of those get scaled into a long-term partnership.
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How do I get matched to a corporate?

Register your startup in five minutes. We enrich your profile and thus you increase the likelihood to show up in search results.
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Run enterprise innovation as a system

For corporate innovators, GlassDollar recommends the right solutions, guides teams through evaluation and pilots, and gives every business unit a direct way to participate.

Three things every innovation manager worries about (but rarely says out loud)

The numbers from customers who run innovation as a system

Every step of your innovation process, in one platform

Every department can participate. The innovation team stays in control.

Everything your innovation program needs, without the extra tools

What differentiates GlassDollar's recommendations

What innovation teams say after running programs on GlassDollar

Security that meets enterprise requirements

Works with the tools your organization already uses

Go deeper on how enterprise innovation works

Common questions

Services

For enterprise teams

For startups