What you get

Venture Clienting

Adopt technology that startups have already built, so that you can solve your priority business needs faster.

Venture clienting means buying and adopting technology from startups to solve a business challenge. It gives your company access to solutions without having to develop everything in-house or make an equity investment in the supplier. As a part of the Combient Group, Combient Foundry works with industrial companies within the Combient network and beyond. We work alongside your business and technology teams from problem selection to adoption.

Key benefits

Get to a working solution faster — access relevant startup technology through global sourcing, focused evaluation, and practical experience from industrial projects.
Decide quickly what to stop and what to scale — each pilot has clear success criteria and agreed purchasing requirements, so weak options stop early, and successful ones can move into operations.
Build capability that stays — equip your teams with the roles, KPIs, processes, and experience needed to adopt external technology repeatedly.

How it works

Prioritize the needs — we work with your business teams to identify where external technology adds value, define requirements, and agree on ownership.
Find and evaluate — we source technology companies globally, assess their solutions with your experts, and build a shortlist.
Test in practice — your team pilots the solution. We help define the scope, timeline, and success criteria, and coordinate with the provider.
Decide and scale — we help your team evaluate results and decide whether to stop, refine or adopt, then support purchasing and rollout for solutions that work.

Strategic impact

Finding a promising supplier is only part of the work. Evaluating its fit, running a pilot with clear success criteria, and preparing for adoption require specialist knowledge and coordination across business teams, procurement, IT, and operations.

We bring established methods and experience from working across industrial companies. We help your teams anticipate adoption challenges and make progress without building every capability internally.

Across all your business challenges, we help you compare progress, stop projects that don’t meet your criteria, and direct time and budget to the solutions that can scale.

Formats & Resources

Ways to engage

Combient Foundry

As a spin-out of Combient, Combient Foundry offers venture client services to Combient's Associated Companies and beyond through an annual fee. Combient Foundry membership gives you access to Venture Client Operations, Venture Client Alliance, and Foundry Lens.

Venture Client Operations

We work alongside your teams on your priority business challenges, from identifying and evaluating solutions to launching pilots and supporting adoption. Over time, we help you build a repeatable approach with the priorities, roles, and processes to sustain it. If you already have a venture client team, we add specialist expertise and hands-on delivery capacity.

Venture Client Alliance

Learn from what other industrial companies are evaluating, piloting, and adopting, including what worked, what did not and what is needed to move forward. The Venture Client Alliance connects practitioners and executives to compare experiences with solutions and suppliers, and to exchange insights with technology companies, founders, investors, and experts.

Foundry Lens

Find and assess startup solutions in the context of your business needs. Foundry Lens combines intelligence on more than 40 million startups and global funding trends with tools to compare solutions, document evaluations, and track pilots. Bring your team's assessments and project learning into one place, and build on insights from industrial peers when making your next decision.