Partner & Expert Networks

Build searchable partner, expert,
and business networks

Skipso helps teams build branded network portals to manage profiles, directories, matchmaking, engagement, and reporting across partner, supplier, member, expert, and B2B networks.

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Ideal for managing partner ecosystems, communities, directories, and B2B matchmaking programs.

Overview

Powering your Partner & Expert Network

Build your network combining the right
modules based on your goals.

200+

Network portals

50k+

Stakeholder profiles

300

Matched people & organisations

4k+

Directories created
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Manage every stage of your innovation journey

About Partner & Expert Network

Helps organisations build and manage structured networks of companies, experts, mentors, suppliers, members, researchers, and ecosystem partners. They support profile collection, directories, search, filtering, matching, role-based access, communications, opportunity sharing, engagement tracking, and reporting.

Shared operating model

The network becomes useful when people and organisations can be found, filtered, matched, contacted, and connected to the right opportunity. Skipso supports the operating model behind that work.

Define

Onboard

Organise

Discover

Match

Engage

Report

Define

Onboard

Organise

Discover

Match

Discover

Engage

Network types

Choose the network you need to run.

Different teams use the same network building blocks in different ways—from B2B matchmaking and mentor networks to supplier portals.

B2B Matchmaking Platform

Connect companies, buyers, suppliers, startups, investors, or ecosystem members around business opportunities.

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Expert and Mentoring Platform

Match founders, applicants, members, startups, or teams with mentors, reviewers, coaches, advisors, and subject-matter experts.

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Partner & Supplier Portal

Help organisations discover, compare, and engage partners, suppliers, service providers, technologies, or ecosystem participants.

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Member Networking Platform

Give members, companies, researchers, startups, or ecosystem participants a useful place to find each other and stay engaged.

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Research & Specialist Expert Directory

Organise experts, labs, researchers, clinicians, advisors, or technical specialists around topics and programs.

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Platform capabilities

Capabilities for network discovery, matching, and engagement.

Every network runs on the same building blocks. Skipso makes each one configurable so the platform fits your process, not the other way around.

Branded network portals

Creates a public or private front door for the network.

Configurable profile forms

Captures the information needed for each stakeholder group.

Searchable directories

Makes profiles findable through structured filters, tags & categories.

Role-based access

Controls what each user group can see and do.

Matching & recommendations

Connects people, organisations, expertise, opportunities, programmes, and content.

Communication & engagement

Supports messaging, notifications, newsletters, events, content hubs, and opportunity sharing.

Programme connections

Links network members to applications, reviews, opportunities, mentoring, partner requests, or programme workflows.

AI-Guided Applications

Tracks registrations, profile completion, engagement, connections, events, opportunities, and outcomes.

Governed AI support

Supports admin search, matching, recommendations, profile assistance, and reporting where enabled.

Platform capabilities

Supercharge your network with Skipso's AI platform

Skipso's AI helps administrators search data, assists users with profiles, recommends relevant people and content, supports matching, and generates reports. AI is configurable, explainable, and always follows platform access rules—it supports decisions, not replaces them.

Profile pre-fill with user review

Help users complete profiles faster with AI pre-population. Users review and confirm every field before it is saved.

AI-powered search for administrators

Search across people, companies, and content in the network so administrators can find the right profiles and data quickly.

AI-assisted recommendations

Recommend relevant people, opportunities, and content to network members based on their profiles, interests, and activity.

AI-assisted stakeholder matching

Match mentors, experts, partners, or companies using AI matchmaking alongside configurable matching rules your team controls.

AI-supported reporting & analysis

Ask questions about network data with the AI data chatbot and generate reports from platform activity.
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AI company scouting & first-pass evaluation

Scout external companies or partners and run first-pass evaluations with the GRAITR add-on.
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Explore AI Capabilities

See how governed AI supports search, matching,
recommendations, and reporting.

Who this is for

Built for the teams
behind the network.

Skipso supports the people responsible for making a network searchable, permissioned, active, and connected to real outcomes.

Ecosystem managers

Partnership teams

Mentor and expert network leads

Associations and member organisations

Economic development and cluster teams

Research and healthcare networks

Trust & enterprise controls

Enterprise controls for controlled networks.

Partner and expert networks often include private profiles, commercial interests, supplier data, contact details, program information, and internal notes. Skipso supports role-based access, isolated client databases, SSO, audit logs, GDPR-aligned data handling, ISO 27001 certification, and governed AI controls.

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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OUR CLIENTS

Trusted by 250+ organisations across 40 countries

Trusted by global enterprises, governments and universities to run innovation, grant and startup programs. Our clients use Skipso to manage open innovation, accelerators, grants, awards, research hubs, partner networks, mentoring programs, and white-label ecosystem portals.

Nordic Innovation Accelerator

Cleantech innovation accelerator

Cluster Fabbrica Intelligente

Scouting program for cluster

Water Alliance

Water sector Innovation program

Mind

Multistakeholder innovation cluster

Amadori

Corporate innovation platform

HSC Next

Health Innovation Accelerator

Helsinki

Sustainable Helsinki city challenge

Milano Expo

Video competition for Milan Expo

Terna

Corporate internal innovation

Snam

Corporate Integrated innovation hub

Open Italy

Italy’s open innovation initiative

Italgas

Internal & external tech scouting

University of North Texas Health Science Center at FortWorth

Telefónica

Network of local accelerators

U.S. Department of Energy

Community Innovation Challenge

Syngenta

Biennial Internal award program

Intesa Tech Marketplace

European tech matchmaking platform

Eurovita

Internal employee engagement program

Electrolux

Technology scouting program

Digital Promise

Open innovation education initiative

Deloitte & Regione Puglia

Internal & external innovation initi

Deloitte

Internal & external innovation initi

Colorado Department of Transportation

Innovation challenge initiative

Cleantech Open

Cleantech accelerator program

California Energy Commission

Cleantech community platform