New homepage

Built around your initiative

Different programs.
A shared way forward.

From opportunity to cohort

Bring the best ideas
into the right hands.

Find ideas and startups, review applications, and connect participants with the right support.

Who’s involved

Startups · Innovation teams · Evaluators · Partners

Open innovation

Find solutions to your challenges

Idea management

Gather and develop ideas

Accelerators & incubators

Select and support your cohorts

Startup scouting

Find companies that fit your brief

Explore innovation programs

From individual expertise to shared opportunity

Make your network
work together.

Connect people, companies and expertise through searchable directories, matching and shared opportunities.

Who’s involved

Members · Companies · Experts · Researchers

B2B matchmaking

Connect companies around shared needs

Expert & mentoring networks

Connect needs with expertise

Partner networks

Bring your partners together

Member networks

Help members find useful connections

Explore networks

From application to recognition

Back the people and ideas
that deserve to go further.

Manage applications, reviewers and award decisions, then keep recipients engaged.

Who’s involved

Applicants · Reviewers · Funders · Award recipients

Grant management

Manage applications and funding decisions

Award management

Recognize the strongest contributions

Fellowships

Select fellows and support their progress

Explore funding & recognition

The platform, in practice

From need to connection.

Explore the platform

From stakeholder need to program.

Find ideas and startups, review applications, and connect participants with the right support.

Forms & profiles

Configurable stages

Roles & permissions

AI assistance: Turn your brief into a submission form.

Needs & challenges

collect

Submit a need

What needs to change?

Reduce energy use

Desired outcome

Lower operating costs

Develop

Reduce industrial energy use

Submitted by Operations

Submitted

Review

Approved

Desired outcome

Lower energy costs across production sites.

Program configurator

Industrial energy challenge

Application → Review → Selection

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Bring the right candidates in.

Attract applications through a branded portal, your network and targeted scouting.

Branded portals

Data import & directories

AI scouting

AI assistance: Help applicants complete forms and profiles.

Industrial energy challenge

Better energy.
Better industry.

Apply to the program

Develop

Reduce industrial energy use

Submitted by Operations

Submitted

Review

Approved

Desired outcome

Lower energy costs across production sites.

Scouting · Find and import relevant companies.

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Make the call. Keep the evidence.

Compare candidates against your criteria, with reviewer scores and a record of each decision.

Scorecards & judging

Reports & dashboards

Exportable audit logs

AI assistance: Support screening and scoring, with human review.

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Make connections that lead somewhere.

Match people and companies with relevant expertise, then support ongoing collaboration.

Matching & assignments

Profiles & directories

Messaging & events

Credits for services & participation

AI assistance: Recommend connections for your team to review and assign.

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Why Skipso

Your brand.
Your data.
Your way of working.

Your platform, your design.

Make the whole web experience yours, with your own domain, custom-designed web pages, and forms and workflows configured around your initiative.

Your data stays yours.

You own your data. Import what you have and export records and reports without volume limits. We never resell your data or reuse it for other purposes.

You decide who sees what.

Set access by role and program, control visibility of profiles and documents, and define who can contact or collaborate with whom.

Your analytics, focused on what matters.

Combine data across your platform in custom dashboards built around your objectives and reporting needs, beyond standard charts and tables.

AI with a clear role

AI assists. People decide.

Use AI for screening, matching and reporting. Your team sets the criteria, reviews the output and makes the decision, with records to support it.

Your criteria.

Set the requirements that guide screening and matching.

Your review.

Review AI outputs before acting on them.

Your decision.

Your team makes the call, with records to support it.

Enterprise ready

Clear decisions.
Secure data.
Confidence to move forward.

The controls your procurement, IT, security and privacy teams will ask for, built around your program.

ISO 27001 certified.
Certification evidence available on
request.

SSO & controlled access

SAML 2.0 and role-based permissions.

AWS infrastructure

EU and US hosting. Additional residency options through enterprise setup.

Audit-ready processes

Records of program actions, scores and decisions.

Supported implementation

Typically around eight weeks, depending on your setup.

GDPR compliant

We act as a Data Processor for your program data.

Isolated databases

Each client has its own database environment.

Control over AI

AI can be disabled on request. AWS Bedrock does not train models on your prompts or completions.

Built for your team

Configuration, onboarding and support to help you launch.

TESTIMONIALS

Meet our customers

Since 2021 Snam has been collaborating with Skipso for the development of Snaminnova. Competence, passion, and dedication are the main qualities that are evident from the team from day one. Skipso's team is responsive to our every need and supports us in the daily evolution of the platform, a key asset for our Open Innovation strategy.

Giuseppe Paoli

Digital Transformation & Technology, Open Innovation Hub, Snaminnova

TESTIMONIALS

Meet our customers

Skipso supported us to design, develop and launch the Federated Innovation @MIND digital platform. The digital platform has a complex organizational structure and continually updated content and flows – Skipso's strength is its flexibility and proactive support!

Eleonora Venuti

Marketing & Business Community Manager, MIND

TESTIMONIALS

Meet our customers

The features available through the software are a big reason why we initially chose and continue to choose Skipso to run our challenges. The ability to match startups to mentors within the system is important to us.

Jessica Smothermon

Director Operations, Cleantech Open

TESTIMONIALS

Meet our customers

I cannot imagine how much longer it would have taken and how much more it would have cost to launch our ideation initiative without the Skipso Labs platform. It has been wonderful to house all of the information and processes in one place.

Amber J. Y.

Senior Program Manager, Hsc Next

TESTIMONIALS

Meet our customers

In 2019, Skipso helped IsDB set up our Innovation platform ‘Engage’. The platform was a complete ecosystem of entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and mentors from academia. Since then the highly responsive and enthusiastic team from SkipsoLabs has helped us to establish Engage as a well-known innovation hub.

Innovation Team

Islamic Development Bank

TESTIMONIALS

Meet our customers

The Skipso team has worked incredibly hard to make the program an outstanding success. The team’s effort as well as the high flexibility of their online awards management platform were absolutely essential for the great overall success of this program!

Arne Pingel

Global Product Manager, Syngenta

Find the ones that matter.

Different programs.
A shared way forward.