Collaborating with governments, corporates and innovation ecosystems since 2014
Selected cases
Client: Porsche
Services: Global Startup Awards Program, consultancy services
Project countries: Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazahstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Short description: Global Startup Awards provided an opportunity for Porsche to raise awareness of the importance of diversity by creating a tailor-made category called ‘Diversity Role Model’ to identify individuals who are known for their outstanding achievements.
Client: Danish Business Authority
Services: Global Startup Awards Program
Project countries: Denmark
Short description: Danish Business Authority was looking to promote the green agenda within the Danish innovation scene while also connecting and promoting it to relevant stakeholders from the global innovation scene. The Global Finale Days became the vehicle for achieving the desired results after XO.company was selected for a grant.
Client: Blue Planet Foundation
Services: White label innovation program
Proejct counties: Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
Short description: Blue Planet Foundation hired XO.company to design and execute a white label competition and an education & business development Bootcamp, focusing on sustainability startups in the V4 countries.
Client: Danish Foreign Ministry
Services: White label innovation program
Project countries: Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Russian Federation, USA and Canada.
Short description: Together with partners we’ve created a new brand and competition to use as a vehicle. We’ve created an innovation competition concept, the brand and powered the competition with our own dedicated IT platform and the global network from the Global Startup Awards.
Client: AQ Anton
Services: Match Startup Program
Project counties: All countries of the European Union
Short description: AQ Anton, an engineering & production company, part of AQ Group AB, hired XO.company for strategy consultation and designing & execution of a startup program.
Client: iPon & HRP Europe
Services: White label innovation program
Project countries: Hungary
Short description: iPon, one of Hungary’s leading e-commerce platforms, in partnership with HRP Europe, a dominant IT distributor of technologies in the Hungarian market hired XO.company to create and execute a white label competition.
Client: Bio Innovation Institute
Services: Global Startup Awards Program, consultancy services
Project countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Short description: Introducing Global Startup Awards´s case, a tailor-made networking path to shape a better future through embracing innovation in Health Tech in the Nordics.
Client: Blue Planet Foundation
Services: Match Startup Program
Project countries: Sweden, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary
Short description: Blue Planet Foundation hired XO.company for a strategic consultation on working out the application process for their Wave Accelerator Program, also implementing our competition management software.
Client: The Swedish Foreign Ministry
Services: Consultancy services
Project countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia
Short description: The IoT, AI and Machine Learning batch program was a neutral business platform, which aim was to bring together highest performing Swedish corporates with well selected startups from Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on connectivity, mentoring and business match-making, powered by the Swedish Government.
Client: Aarhus University
Services: Global Startup Awards Program, consultancy services
Project countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland
Short description: Onboarding Aarhus University to the Nordic Startup Awards by creating a tailor-made Category called ‘The Best Accelerator and/or Incubator Program’ that is aiming to map Nordic green innovation scene.
Client: Google
Services: Global Startup Awards Program
Project countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia
Short description: Google was looking to acquire detailed insights into the CEE startup ecosystem to support their business strategy in the region. Using the Central European Startup Awards competition as a vehicle, qualitative and quantitative data were collected to support Google in their efforts. A public report from the findings was also created and was downloaded more than 20.000 times.
Client: Al-Watan
Services: White label innovation program
Project countries: Saudi Arabia
Short description: Al-Watan was about further developing and re-branding an already existing innovation /competition program, to make it more appealing for the western markets. As strategic advisors, we’ve created an entirely new concept including re-branding, visuals, processes, the website and voice of tone for the Client and also provided a hands-on support on the execution.
Client: K-Startup
Services: Global Startup Awards Program
Project countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia
Short description: K-Startup Grand Challenge is the joint project of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency in South Korea. The program has been attracting startups from all around the world since 2016. We helped K-Startup to get access to the local startup ecosystem in CEE region.
We have done projects rooted in countries from all over the globe
Austria - China - Denmark - Hungary - Poland - Sweden - Saudi Arabia - Malaysia - Norway - Iceland - South Africa - US - Italy - Germany - Finland
