By scouting early stage technologies and evaluating new ventures for investment and partnership opportunities, Freshwater helps corporate clients speed to market new innovations. Freshwater’s proprietary technology platform provides corporations with customized startup portfolios, market insights, and tracking tools to help them effectively scout and engage with innovative startup companies. Since the company’s founding in 2013, Freshwater has worked with 25 major corporations, including 18 Fortune 500 companies.
Freshwater conducts best practices research on relevant technology areas and offers rich insights and reports on the emerging technology players in different industry verticals.
In addition to scouting deal flow and conducting due diligence, Freshwater works with corporations to develop formal partnerships and tools for pilot/prototype engagements with startup and emerging growth companies.
Freshwater offers tracking, operational support, and relationship management between corporations and their portfolio of startup companies.
Freshwater offers services that help corporations accelerate their internal innovation practices. We help measure the strength of existing initiatives and create strategies for optimizing innovation IQ.
Freshwater offers a digital portfolio and tracking software system. Client teams receive access to a private digital portal populated with customized scouting reports and tracking metrics on startups of interest.
For many years, as the technology advisor to Mayor Daley of the City of Chicago, and the co-founder and CEO
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