synthesizing innovation intelligence to build deployable ventures

The practice of innovation has changed, now more than ever the need for market reconnaissance and the foresight of disruption is paramount. "Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth"
- C.S. Lewis

Hourglass

foresee

innovation.

build

impact.

We help businesses move the needle of innovation towards impact.

In a fast-forwarding world of accelerating trends and uncertainty, we look for the unexpected that will propel innovation forward, from early concept ideas to impactful inventions. Extrapolating the edges of science-driven advances that effect positive change and serve global development. We are a foresight-driven innovation intelligence and venture research firm. Welcome to Venture Synthesis.

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We Help Our Partners Across Three Pillars.

Evaluate and optimize pipeline planning with
Strategic Foresight

Strategic Foresight

Look to the external environment of tomorrow to validate, pivot or reinvent propositions early on in the innovation process saving valuable resources.

Collaborate to explore and drive change through
Corporate Innovation

Corporate Innovation

Leverage the wider innovation ecosystem to source the right venture building blocks and build custom teams to catalyze their transformation.

Embrace open innovation to think differently about
Venture Development

Venture Development

Scale innovation intelligence by experimenting to de-risk and prove the technical feasibility, commercial viability and impact value of venture concepts.

Corporate Innovation & R&D

As the pace of innovation continues to accelerate we measure Startups, Intellectual Property and University breakthroughs as proxy metrics to correlate trends, disruptions and innovation opportunities. Interpreting how these early signals converge with market dynamics allow us to create a horizon view of commercially relevant opportunities and foresee pathways towards investment and venture development.

We help R&D Managers, Technology scouting professionals and Open Innovation Teams derive value from unearthing potentially disruptive technologies, find appropriate white spaces and funnel M&A or collaborative pipeline opportunities.

Corporate R&D
and Innovation
Corporate
Venture Capital
M & A
Startup
Venture Capital
Startup
Ecosystem

Redefine your innovation thesis by uncovering signals of future growth and disruption as the driving forces for new venture development.

How we help

Venture Synthesis provides key insights and actionable recommendations across all stages of the Venture Lifecycle.

Our approach is founded in the application of scientific methods to innovation research that enables us to help companies build a sustainable, competitive advantage based on data, design and intelligence.

our services
Competitive Landscaping

Horizon Scan

An on-demand service providing Competitive Intelligence, Technology Analysis and Strategic Foresight within your domain to keep a close watch on shifting dynamics.

Corporate - Startup Collaboration

Scout & Connect

Collaboration accelerates innovation. We accelerate the origination of novel ventures by unearthing and engaging with high potential emerging technology companies.

Benchmark Validation

Benchmark Validation

Our process can help decision-makers evaluate their position in market with respect to competitors and simultaneously identify white spaces to penetrate.

Venture Building

Venture Catalyst

We devise a strategic innovation roadmap to be validated that leverages hindsight to conceptualise future horizons of innovation. Applying a unique lens to exploring assumptions for the future.

our services

We challenge the notion of innovation for innovation’s sake. change with purpose is the inherent driver of value and long term business growth.

Search has no limits, however, exploring anything and everything to keep abreast of change is time-consuming and exhaustive – outsource such activities through our Innovation Sourcing as a Service offerings.

We provide clients with commercial strategy and R&D innovation services focused on human-centred products alongside pipeline planning, competition and market access strategies.

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Sourcing & Venture Development

In the face of prevailing corporate and venture capital competition for new ventures, we provide Innovation Sourcing as a Service to identify consumer-centered inventions prior to or in the early stages of their commercial reality. Offering a unique external lens on innovation while measuring the potential short- and long-term real-world impact. Our clients benefit from our offer of:

- Competitive intelligence & strategic foresight

- Signalling potential high ROI research areas

- Open innovation & technology scouting

- Development roadmap validation

- Patent white space analysis

- Venture origination & synthesis

- ...and more

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About Venture Synthesis.

Venture Synthesis is an interdisciplinary venture research and development firm; a hybrid of strategy consultancy, innovation agency and venture builder. We drive innovation from the bottom up, providing clients with commercial strategy and R&D innovation services focused on customer-centric products alongside pipeline planning, competition and market access strategies. The firm is fuelled by a team of diverse profiles, each from STEM and design research backgrounds. Venture Synthesis consultants help companies see their landscape differently through a human-centred and impact-first approach. Taking data-driven decisions to transform innovation intelligence into competitive advantage. An entrepreneurial spirit, results oriented mindset and disciplined operational approach are the most central characteristics of Venture Synthesis.