2022 Corporate
Startup STARS

The Corporate Startup Stars nominations resulted from the general ranking obtained by merging the quantitative and qualitative analyses of applications. The top 50 ranked companies have been divided into two main groups.
Corporate Startup Stars represent the first 25 companies in the ranking.

CSS WINNERS

Corporate Startup Stars are those companies that are fostering best-in-class Open Innovation
practices and promoting corporate-startup collaborations globally.

TOP 1 CORPORATE
STARTUP STAR

2022 OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGERS

Open Innovation Challengers are those companies that are challenging the status quo and bringing
forward novel approaches in the space of corporate Open Innovation.

2022 REGIONAL AWARDS

NORTH AMERICA CORPORATE STARTUP STAR

SOUTH AMERICA CORPORATE STARTUP STAR

EUROPE CORPORATE STARTUP STAR

EAST ASIA CORPORATE STARTUP STAR

MIDDLE EAST CORPORATE STARTUP STAR

AFRICA CORPORATE STARTUP STAR

CHINA CORPORATE STARTUP STAR

2022 RISING STARS AWARDS

“Rising Stars Award” category has been created in order to award those Open Innovation
best practices put in place by companies outside of the Fortune 500/ Forbes 2000 lists.

2022 Corporate Startup Accelerator

This award takes into account the following parameters: 

  1. Number of startups accelerated per year;
  2. Geographic reach of the accelerator’s portfolio;
  3. Impact of the accelerated startups on the corporate business;
  4. Estimated financial return of the accelerator;
  5. Total package offered by the corporate to accelerated startups.

2022 Venture Client Awards

This award takes into account the following parameters: 

  1. Number of startup collaborations;
  2. Geographic reach of procurement activities;
  3. Scale and impact of such procurement collaborations on the overall corporate business.

2022 Venture Capital Awards

This award takes into account the following parameters: 

  1. Number of investments;
  2. Estimated return on investment;
  3. Size of the fund/Capital invested;
  4. Size and perceived relevance of the invested startups, and overall impact on the corporate business.
  5. Process put in place for investments: presence of a dedicated fund/CVC, a ventures team, etc.

2022 Startup M&A Award

This award takes into account the following parameters: 

  1. Number of acquisitions done;
  2. Total dollar amount of the acquisitions;
  3. Impact of the acquired startups on the corporate business;
  4. Size and perceived relevance of the acquired startups.

2022 Venture Builder Award

This award takes into account the following parameters: 

  1. Structure and goals of the Venture Builder;
  2. Number, growth and perceived relevance of new ventures;
  3. Impact of new ventures on the company’s core business.
  4. Innovativeness and novelty of the adopted approach to corporate venture building.

2022 Intrapreneurship Program Award

This award takes into account the following parameters: 

  1. Presence of one or more programmes dedicated to stimulating entrepreneurial attitude of employees;
  2. Structure of the program;
  3. Success stories reported and overall impact of the program.

2022 Innovation Organization Award

The Innovation Organization Award takes into account an organizational setup that enables and promotes
non-incremental innovation reaching beyond their current core business scope.

2022 Winner Orbit