GlassDollar Product: Venture Clienting Platform

Built for the whole organization, not just the innovation team

Innovation managers run the process and keep full visibility across every project. Business units do not wait in line. They define their own needs and find matching startups directly, then feed straight into the innovation manager's backlog.

Collect Pain Points

Define your need

Any team can describe a pain point in plain language and turn it into a structured brief, ready to act on.

Find Solutions

Find matching solutions, fast

Search GlassDollar's dataset of 20M+ companies to surface relevant solutions in minutes, not weeks of manual scouting.

Evaluate Companies

Benchmark and build confidence

Compare shortlisted companies side by side and pull in stakeholder input before committing budget or time.

Run PoCs

Manage PoCs without losing the thread

A customizable Kanban board keeps every PoC visible, from kickoff to result, so nothing stalls quietly in someone's inbox.

Report Impact

Prove what worked

Built-in analytics turn pilot outcomes into a clear record of impact, the evidence leadership actually asks for.

Discover everything inside GlassDollar

GlassDollar runs on the largest dataset on corporate-startup collaboration. That scale is what makes the Recommendations Engine accurate instead of generic.

Discovery

Find the right solutions from 20M+ companies, with AI-driven matches or expert-assisted search when the need is harder to define.

Recommendations

Get insights that guide your next move with confidence.

Intelligence

Search 20M+ solutions. Compare and connect.

Sourcing Service

Get expert shortlists, delivered in 5 days.

Evaluation

Compare, score, and align stakeholders before any commitment is made.

Voting

Let your whole team vote and comment on shortlists.

1-Click-Outreach

Connect to any company with a single click.

Score Card

Structured side-by-side comparison criteria

Collaboration

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

Open Challenges

Post challenges and let startups pitch solutions directly to you.

Business Unit CRM

Every division runs startup projects. HQ keeps visibility.

Permission Control

Control which teams see what: private, invite-only, or open.

Pilot Management

Run every PoC on a single board, with full history and vendor context always one click away.

PoC Management

Track every pilot from kickoff to KPI, in one shared workspace.

PoC History

A running record of every pilot ever run, searchable over time.

Startup CRM

One profile per startup. Zero duplicate outreach.

Reporting

Turn pilot outcomes into proof, the kind that holds up in a leadership review.

Impact Calculation

Connect to any company with a single click.

Analytics

Get export-ready impact reports for leadership and finance.

News Feed

Stay on top of relevant competitor moves and trends.

Centralized oversight, decentralized access

GlassDollar splits responsibility the way your organization actually works.

Innovation Team

Full visibility across every project and business unit

Curates lists, manages projects, controls the pipeline

Sees every prior startup interaction across the company

Cassy

Operations

Ravi

Finance

invited

Janine

Define needs and search for solutions independently

Get invited into relevant lists, searches, and projects

Submit directly into the innovation manager's backlog

No department starts from zero. Every team sees what has already been explored elsewhere in the company, so effort never gets duplicated.

The data behind every recommendation

GlassDollar runs on the largest dataset on corporate-startup collaboration. That scale is what makes the Recommendations Engine accurate instead of generic.

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

implementations, benchmarks & learnings

Fits into how your organization already works

Export to CSV and XLS, connect via API, and keep procurement, finance, and IT in sync, without forcing a change in how those teams already operate.

Enterprise-Grade Security You Can Trust

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.

"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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From pain point to pilot, without the chaos

GlassDollar is the platform enterprise innovation teams use to capture needs, find the right startups, and prove what worked, while every business unit can search and submit on their own.

Most innovation teams are stuck managing chaos, not solving problems