and venture clienting.
Find the startups your business should invest in or buy from. Earth Collective gives you an always-on, branded intake that screens applicants against your investment thesis and your business units’ needs, gets them ready, and keeps the best of them in your pipeline.
Most corporate deal flow lives in inboxes and spreadsheets.
Startups reach your venture team, your business units and your innovation lab through different doors, get screened differently each time, and are forgotten when a fund cycle or a pilot slot closes. Venture clienting raises the bar further: a business unit needs a startup that is ready to be a supplier, not just ready to pitch.
What you get with Earth Collective.
One front door for every startup that wants to work with you.
A branded, always-on intake for your investment thesis and for each business unit’s brief. Startups apply once, to the problem they can solve, and the right team sees them.
- Intake by investment thesis or business-unit brief
- Your brand, your questions, your criteria
- Startups from your networks, partners and events in one place
A shortlist you can act on.
Every applicant is assessed on your criteria, with expert and AI feedback, and your team or your experts judge the shortlist. Startups that aren’t ready yet are shown what to fix, not lost.
- Scoring on criteria you set
- Your experts as judges, if you want them
- Readiness feedback for startups that aren’t ready yet
Ready to invest in, or ready to buy from.
For corporate venture capital, startups are matched to your mandate and diligence starts in a controlled data room. For venture clienting, business units see which startups are ready to pilot. Either way, you can show leadership what the pipeline produced.
- Matching to your investment mandate
- Data rooms with access by folder or file
- Pipeline reporting for leadership
Five stages, set up around your program.
- 01
Intake
Applications in, assessed on your criteria, decided by your people.
- 02
Develop
Applicants improve their case with feedback from your advisors.
- 03
Prepare
The readiness engine: narrative, impact metrics, risk plan and data room, in the language funders use.
- 04
Match
Applicants that are ready meet investors and funders who back what they do.
- 05
Report
Your whole pipeline in one view, ready when someone asks.
The startups you passed on are still in your pipeline.
A startup that is too early today may be right for your next fund cycle or pilot. Profiles stay live and keep improving, so you can come back to them when the timing fits.
Your pipeline, your brand, your data.
Applicant data, investor mandates and program records are protected by design, and we work within your procurement requirements.
Kept apart from other programs
Your pipeline runs in its own galaxy. Its data is scoped to your organisation and not visible to other programs.
Confidential applications
Startups control who sees their materials, down to the folder or file, and every access is logged.
Contracts to match
We sign mutual NDAs, discuss a data processing agreement, and complete your security review.
Private by default
Passwordless sign-in, role-based access, and nothing reachable without a valid session.
Isolated by program
Your data is scoped to your organisation, and private cohorts stay private.
Logged and backed up
Data room access and AI calls are logged. Backups run daily and are kept for 30 days.
Your requirements, met
Mutual NDA, a data processing agreement, and your security questionnaire completed.
Common questions.
Does this work for venture clienting as well as CVC?
Yes. The same intake and screening serve both. For corporate venture capital the end point is an investment; for venture clienting it is a pilot or purchase with one of your business units. Contracts and procurement stay in your own process.
Can each business unit have its own brief?
Yes. Each brief can have its own intake and criteria under one brand, so startups apply to the problem they can solve and the right team reviews them.
Are applications confidential?
Yes. Applications are private by default, startups decide who sees their materials, and access to them is logged.
Can we still run an innovation challenge?
Yes. A time-boxed challenge can run on the same platform, and its applicants stay in your pipeline after it closes.
IPAs & governments
Attract investment, back the right businesses and projects, and show ministers what the program produced.
Learn moreAccelerators & universities
Run the whole cohort in one place, from applications to demo day, and keep your alumni fundable afterwards.
Learn moreProfessional networks
Give members something to do besides read the newsletter: advise ventures and projects, judge programs and see relevant deals.
Learn morePhilanthropic & grant bodies
Run your call on Earth Collective and see which applicants are ready for your funding before the committee meets.
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