Corporate innovation fails without a system, so we built one

Seven years of sourcing, piloting, and tracking corporate-startup collaboration gave us something no competitor can buy: the data to know what actually works.

Trusted by 4,500+ innovators

We unlock the power of entrepreneurship, so our customers can scale real impact.

That means connecting enterprises with the right startups, enabling real co-creation, and providing the software to make it happen fast and without friction, across every team, every project, and every year.

Seven years of doing the work before building the platform

GlassDollar was founded in Berlin in 2018.

We did not start with software, but with the work itself: running Venture Clienting programs for enterprise clients, sourcing startups, managing PoCs, and tracking what happened at the end of each one.

Every project added a data point. Every sourcing added a benchmark. Every PoC that succeeded or failed added something real to an understanding of what corporate-startup collaboration actually looks like at scale. Not in theory, but in practice, across industries, regions, and organizational structures.

After several years of doing that work directly, the dataset was large enough, and the patterns clear enough, to build software that could do at scale what the team had been doing manually.

What was first built to improve our services, is today the core of GlassDollar.

The end-to-end platform to find, test and implement innovative solutions.

Founder, CEO

Our journey

2018

Founded in Berlin, Germany

2019

10 enterprise clients

2021

100,000 collaborations tracked

2023

International expansion

2025

1,000 PoCs proccessed per year

2026

Partnership with Start2 Group. Focus shifts fully to data and software.

The data moat nobody else has

There are thousands of startup databases. There is only one dataset built specifically around corporate-startup collaboration, what was sourced, what was evaluated, what ran as a pilot, and what actually got implemented.

That is the GlassDollar dataset. 400,000+ collaboration records. 20 million+ companies. Seven years of real decisions made by real enterprise innovation teams.

It is what makes our Recommendations Engine specific rather than generic, and it is what makes the sourcing results relevant rather than comprehensive.

You cannot replicate this with a larger scraping budget. It was built by doing the work.

Collaborations tracked

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corporate-startup partnerships

Companies in database

20M+

startups & corporates indexed

PoCs processed this year

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since Jan 1, 2026

Years of real data

7

implementations, benchmarks & learnings

A few things about how we operate

We believe data beats opinion

Every recommendation GlassDollar makes is grounded in what has actually happened in corporate-startup collaborations, not what sounds plausible. That discipline runs through everything we build.

We stay close to the work

GlassDollar was built by people who ran collaboration programs before they built software for them. That proximity to real enterprise innovation work shapes how the product is developed and how we talk to customers.

We think in systems, not one-off projects

Innovation procurement only works if it is repeatable. A great sourcing that leads nowhere is not a success. We measure ourselves against whether the programs we enable actually scale.

We are honest about what we do and do not do

We are a data and software company. Services are delivered by partners who share our methodology and standards. We say that clearly because it is true and because customers deserve to know.

Berlin-based, globally active

GlassDollar is headquartered in Berlin, with teams in Munich and Sofia.
Our clients and partners operate across Europe, the US, Middle East, and beyond.

GlassDollar HQ

Sophienstr. 5
10178 Berlin
Germany

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