For Corporate Partners we enable Innovation
focused on tangible & pressing corporates’ needs
streamlining processes and empowering teams
favouring real experimentations and pilots for faster time to market
Matching Corporates with Global Startups and Scaleups for pilots projects collaborations
Identification of Opportunities for joint project developments & knowledge sharing
Supporting corporate teams in ideating and developing innovative projects
The various partners we have been working with along the years are:
CDILabs contributes to reducing the frictions to innovation and unlock new opportunities for its Corporate Partners, through:
Tailored selection of innovative solutions to corporate needs
Networking opportunities with other Corporate Partners for joint collaborations
An attractive offer for startups: sales access directly to decision-makers with zero-equity and zero fees
Access to a wide talent pool through the CDI Network
Innovation in established businesses can be a long, time-consuming and resource-intensive process.
CDILabs open innovation consortium is a fast track for knowledge & best practices sharing, Innovation risk mitigation, internal culture growth and a multiplier of Innovation opportunities.
Co-founder of LinkedIn and Partner of Greylock Partners. Keynote speaker at CDILabs Matchmaking Day 2018.
"Successful startup and corporate relationships that provide value to both are difficult to build and need a trusted 3rd party. Further more, each company has its own internal clock, that needs to be listened attentively to face the challenges of the future."
President of FCA Group
"CDILabs is helping to build relationships between entrepreneurs and corporate. They are facilitating the use of innovation to create value for both. What is interesting is we don't know where it will lead, but it is an enabler for a dialogue to start."
Executive Vice President of ERG Spa
"We are looking to the future of Energy and to new solutions generated by startups. We believe in projects like CDILabs to support our international positioning in Innovation."
CEO and Founder of Parkbob
"I liked the accurate preselection and matching of startups and corporations that fit together really well and the passion of all the people involved in CDILabs radiates"
CTO & Co-founder of Otonhom
"A huge benefit we have from CDILabs is the collaboration we can have with startups. You create a real synergy with all the startups and European companies and this is a point that we didn't think. We were surprised to have this collaboration and to discuss with startups who met the same issues as us, it is for us a real benefit."
COO and Co-founder of Go To-U
"It has been an amazing experience - together with CDILabs we managed to have a very successful conversation with the corporate representatives. We presented Go To-U solution and we were very excited at how fast the corporate representatives arrived at very specific points with us. We are very much looking forward to the collaboration in the future."