add.Venture Scout is a subscription-based venture scouting and innovation curation service that enables your enterprise to leverage the add.Venture platform and The Wonder Guild’s distributed network of scouts to identify startups, IP, technologies, products and services that advance your enterprise’s strategic and financial goals.
Since 2000, The Wonder Guild has been building and nurturing a network of entrepreneurs, social innovators, students, researchers and analysts, designers, culture and trend hunters, and early adopters in the USA, Europe, Africa, Asia, Canada, and New Zealand. These innovators serve as scouts who keep us smart on and connected to the people, companies and movements that are bending the leading edge of every industry.
Why add.Venture Scout
- There are 107 millions startups and small businesses created and nearly 19 million patents and trademarks for inventions, technologies and designs are filed annually worldwide. add.Venture leverages a proven algorithm for identifying, selecting and vetting startups, technologies and solutions that match your desired strategic and business outcomes and deliver returns your investors/shareholders expect.
- add.Venture Scouts free up internal innovation, venture, R&D, and procurement leaders to focus on shepherding new startup partners and technologies into business units—enabling managed engagement from introduction to investment, purchase or acquisition.
- Deal flow is critical to investors of all types. Top venture capitalists employ scouts, partners and founders to source new startups. But, if your fund or firm is relatively small or new, you won’t get access to top, high-growth startups. add.Venture provides a steady flow of vetted, high-potential startups and technologies that align with your investment theses and timing.
Why a Subscription
Add.Venture’s subscription model provides our clients simplicity that’s rare in the innovation/venture space; the convenience of having a high-quality, continuous pipeline; and value from bundling our global scouts and curated innovation network, proprietary vetting algorithm that identifies startups that best fit your strategic, investment and social/environmental impact goals.
| Hackathon (single event) | $50,000-$100,000 |
| Accelerator Sponsorship | $1M-$3M plus investments in startups |
| Corporate Accelerator | $30,000-$50,000/startup plus investments in startups |
| Typical Venture Scout | 15% of fund’s profit |
How Your add.Venture Scout Subscription Works
- Bimonthly introduction to at 3-5 companies, technologies and/or IP, each vetted based on add.Venture’s proprietary algorithm and your industry, market and other preferences.
- Startups will be vetted for social and environmental impact and diversity, in addition to financial results and potential.
- Review your selections via the add.Venture platform (online/mobile app), including select pitch decks, product demos, and financial reviews.
- You and your team manage introductions, communications and other engagement with companies and innovators on the add.Venture platform—or take it offline.
- Access data and insights tailored to your industry, market and interests.
- Become members of The Wonder Guild’s invitation-only curated innovation network and receive:
- Preferred access to entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial leadership development opportunities for your high-potential executives, e.g. as advisors to high-growth startups.
- Discounts and exclusive invitations to global innovation events and expeditions.
- Discounts on industry intelligence reports and other products from The Wonder Guild family of companies.