Tech Scouting

Looking for the Right Technology Scouting Software?

Corporate innovation teams, R&D leaders, and tech scouts in large organizations (1,000+ employees) often face the same frustrating issues:

❌ Too many tools and too little alignment
❌ Missed startup opportunities
❌ Scouting work that’s repeated or siloed
❌ No way to scale pilots or show business impact

Sound familiar?

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Meet HYPE Partnering — The Smartest Technology Scouting Software for Corporate Innovators

HYPE Partnering is an all-in-one technology scouting platform designed to help you identify, manage, and collaborate with external partners more efficiently than ever.

Whether you're discovering new startups, piloting solutions, or tracking partner relationships across business units—HYPE Partnering gives you a structured, scalable process to drive results.

With HYPE, you can:

Tap into a global startup ecosystem with AI-powered scouting and Crunchbase integration
Qualify and shortlist vendors using a flexible, repeatable venture clienting process
Create a partner database as your single source of truth—track NDAs, contacts, and progress
Collaborate internally and externally using Kanban-style boards and real-time updates
Quantify impact with reports your leadership will love

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How Innovation Leaders Use Our Technology Scouting Software

Partner Discovery

SMARTER, FASTER STARTUP SCOUTING—ALL IN ONE PLATFORM.

Search and discover relevant start-ups and organizations through HYPE Partnering, offering instant transparency into the global startup ecosystem.

AI-powered database of nearly 1 million companies, updated weekly with 4,000+ new startups

Crunchbase integration with real-time sync keeps your data accurate and up-to-date

Scouting boards let you qualify and evaluate partners quickly with a simple, flexible table view

Partner CRM

ONE CENTRAL HUB FOR ALL YOUR INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS.

Build a dynamic database of your partners—startups, vendors, and collaborators—and make it your single source of truth.

Add, categorize, and search partners quickly

Track NDAs, documents, calls, and meetings in one place

Eliminate duplicated work with shared visibility across teams

Monitor every stage—from first contact to pilot to full collaboration

Keep your partner ecosystem aligned, transparent, and ready to scale.

Partner CRM

Piloting

FROM URGENT CHALLENGE TO PROVEN SOLUTION—FAST.

Turn partner opportunities into tangible outcomes with structured venture clienting workflows.

Create and track “Use Cases” across qualification, piloting, and execution

Collaborate via a Kanban task board with discussions and file sharing

Evaluate and benchmark solutions before launch

Use the Use Case Pipeline to report progress, impact, and ROI

Pilot with clarity. Scale what works.

Open Innovation

CO-CREATE WITH STARTUPS, VENDORS, AND EXTERNAL EXPERTS.

Launch campaigns to collect proposals from partners—whether by invite or open call.

Run time-limited or always-on submission channels

Customize forms to get high-quality, relevant proposals

Use built-in tools to evaluate and select the best-fit solutions

Give partners a space to collaborate and update profiles independently

Create a thriving partner ecosystem with structure and speed.

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Confidently Collaborate—We’re ISO 27001 Certified.

ISO 27001

HYPE adheres to the strictest information management and cloud security requirements in accordance with the international gold standard for data protection.

The World's Biggest Brands Use Hype for Technology Scouting

“Transformative Collaboration Platform for Open Innovation”

HYPE Innovation has been an excellent partner in powering our Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP). Their solution has enabled us to streamline idea collection and evaluation, fostering innovation across multiple stakeholder groups. The platform’s flexibility, intuitive user interface, and robust backend have been critical in managing a diverse range of innovation challenges efficiently.

Moritz F., Discovery and Preparation Officer

“Our Start-up Program and Challenge Received a Significant Boost”

With the support of a partner like HYPE Partnering, our Start-up Program and Challenge received a significant boost. Our collaboration with HYPE resulted in the professionalization of our scouting process and contributed significantly to the success of our Start-Up Challenge.

Michael Metzmaier, Head Of Corporate Development

“We have always been hugely impressed with the HYPE team”

Ricoh’s passion for people and innovation has led us to partner with HYPE as we looked for a world-class ideas platform to capture our employees’ amazing ideas. We have always been hugely impressed with the HYPE team and their desire to deliver beyond our expectations.

Haroon Mohammed, Finance Director

“An invaluable partner and a real extension of our team!!!”

HYPE Innovation is an amazing all-in-one tool. It allowed us for the first time to materialize our whole Innovation Ecosystem and bring it to life. This offered the opportunity to leverage this Ecosystem in the best possible way and expand it, collaborating seamlessly through the organization globally.

Michael Kokozidis, Technology Sourcing

What You'll Get

Discovery Call: Start with a quick conversation with one of our Innovation Catalysts to explore your current partnership workflows, goals, and challenges.

Tailored Demo: Based on your needs, we’ll schedule a live session with a HYPE Solution Consultant to walk you through how HYPE Partnering can support your use cases—whether scouting, piloting, or managing partner ecosystems.

Custom Pricing: After the demo, we’ll share a pricing proposal tailored to your organization’s size, use cases, and implementation requirements.

What to Expect

Check Your Email: You’ll receive an email confirming your request, along with valuable resources to get you started—client stories, scouting benchmarks, and more.
We'll Reach Out: One of our Innovation Catalysts will follow up by email and phone to schedule your discovery call at a time that works best for you.
Start the Conversation: Your intro call will help us understand your goals, so we can tailor the demo and pricing to your needs.
Assess Fit: If it’s a match for both sides, we’ll arrange a personalized demo focused on your specific needs.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Before we move on to the next stage, we know there are always a few “what-ifs” or “how-tos.” That’s why we’ve gathered answers to common questions below—so you can decide if HYPE is truly the right partner for your technology scouting goals.

What are your unique selling points?

As the recognized leader in innovation management software, HYPE has over 20 years of experience and has served more than 600 enterprise organizations globally. Our reputation is built on having the most capable product on the market, combined with industry-leading support and consulting available to ensure the success of your innovation efforts.

Here are the four key points that make our platform stand out from the rest:

1. End-to-End Innovation Platform:

Unlike competitors that focus solely on one or two parts of the process, the HYPE platform seamlessly integrates different modules, such as HYPE Ideation, HYPE Projects, and HYPE Trends & Technologies to support the entire innovation process—from strategy and idea collection to execution and measurement.

2. Smart AI Capabilities for Improved Quality, Efficiency & Automation:

HYPE is at the forefront of AI-driven innovation management, offering features such as AI Campaign Coach, AI Idea Coach, AI Idea Generation, and AI Triage to support your innovators and streamline every part of the innovation process, saving innovators time, their most valuable asset. What’s more, HYPE’s unique Innovation Graph automatically analyzes and visualizes your innovation landscape, unlocking unparalleled insights for making the right decisions for your future.

3. Enterprise-Grade Scalability & Security:

Designed for large organizations, and proven in the field, HYPE has a track record of supporting hundreds of thousands of users per instance while ensuring top-tier, ISO-certified, security and privacy. The platform also offers accessibility and internationalization features, including AI-powered translation and support for 20+ languages, enabling global collaboration at scale.

4. High Customizability & Flexibility:

HYPE provides unparalleled flexibility through configurable business rules, platform admin fields, and a lot more, allowing customers to change the functionality, UI, and access controls to meet their needs. HYPE Projects and HYPE Boards allow the customer to easily support an unlimited number of different phase-gate and agile processes to ensure every innovation process within the organization can easily be supported by the platform.

What AI features do you have?

HYPE uses AI across the entire end-to-end innovation process, from strategy and ideation to execution and measurement, to support innovators and improve quality and efficiency, as well as save time, the most valuable asset for any innovator. We are also continuing to invest heavily into making the future of Innovation Management AI-Driven.

To name a few the AI enabled features we already have, there’s the Innovation Graph, Idea Coach, Gen AI Idea Generation, AI Campaign Creation, Smart Campaign Cockpit, and a lot more.

To learn more about HYPE’s full AI capabilities and future AI roadmap, please book a demo.

Does it connect with our backend system(s)?

Of course! HYPE integrates with a wide variety of the most common enterprise systems out of the box and also has mature and well-documented APIs available to integrate with any other system. In our 20+ years of working with hundreds of large organizations, we’ve integrated HYPE with pretty much everything. You can use our integration capabilities by yourself, or have our experienced professional services team assist you in the process.

Is it easy to use?

Absolutely! HYPE is built for innovation at scale, and to achieve that, we’ve always prioritized user-friendliness in our design, ensuring that even those with minimal technical expertise can navigate and utilize the system effectively. With intuitive interfaces and guided workflows, getting started is quick and simple.

Would we have support without additional costs?

Yes. As a leader in the market, HYPE is extremely committed to the success of our customers, and we provide all of our subscription customers with complimentary access to our Silver Success Plan, which includes, for example, a Dedicated Customer Success Manager, advice from our industry-leading Innovation Consultants, and standard product support, and more, ensuring that you have access to assistance when you need it. However, we do also offer premium support options for those who prefer even more advanced or personalized support.

What are the features?

As HYPE’s platform covers the entire end-to-end innovation process, there are literally hundreds of features available to ensure you are well supported, regardless of your specific use case and requirements.

The HYPE platform is highly modular, so we make it easy for you to pick all the features and capabilities you need, but you can also start small and easily add more capabilities later if you’re not ready to take advantage of everything HYPE has to offer.

Our experienced Solution Consultants are happy to discuss your specific use cases, needs, and requirements and find a package tailored to your circumstances. Please contact our team to organize your introductory call and learn more.

How does your platform support workflow and process management?

The HYPE platform’s modular design, together with unparalleled flexibility provides our customers with nearly unlimited possibilities to support a wide variety of different processes across the organization, customize workflows, create business rules, and automate processes.

Whether you need to streamline project management, approvals, or customer journeys, we can provide you with the tools needed to help you optimize your innovation processes.

How does reporting look like? What can we do?

HYPE has extensive reporting capabilities directly on the platform, and also provides built-in integrations proven to work at scale for common Business Intelligence Platforms, such as Microsoft Power BI and Salesforce Tableau.

The prior is important to make sure your innovators always have the right metrics at hand to guide the day-to-day work and decision-making of innovators. However, the latter is also important as many organizations want to integrate their innovation metrics with their core business reporting, for example for Board and C-level reporting needs.

Does your platform integrate with other platforms?

How can you help us build a center of excellence around innovation?

Building a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Innovation requires a structured approach, best practices, and the right technology. HYPE can help by providing proven frameworks, best practices, a mature and capable, AI-supported platform, as well as expert guidance to streamline processes, foster collaboration, enable data-driven decisions, measure impact, and embed innovation activities deeply into your organization – ensuring scalable, sustainable, high-ROI innovation.