Prosperity through open innovation

Our modern digital world is fast-paced, and there’s no prize for standing still. To keep moving forward, companies need adaptable strategies for output and internal development as well as for partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions.

You can rely on our team to navigate your business towards growth. Our expertise will help you develop the strategies you need, collaborate with the best partners, and make the right deals.

Core offering

Collaboration

Using our unique collaborative methods with startups, corporates, internal units or your end-users, we help you to develop and validate technology or business models fast.

Strategy

We know how to lay solid strategic foundations and design new business opportunities – as well as how to identify the right timing, partners and methods to make the dreams become reality.

Transaction

When it’s time to invest or acquire, we help you find the right strategic partners, and guide you through the process of designing and making deals.

Case studies

A-lehdet

Rethinking business models for A-lehdet

The media industry has been struggling for years.” This sounds like a quote from ‘Captain Obvious’ — but while it may be common knowledge, potential solutions to the problem can be more obscure and unusual. That was definitely the case in the work that we conducted for one of Finland’s oldest publishing houses, A-lehdet.

  • transaction

Stora Enso

Enabling Agile Transformation

Stora Enso, a global renewable materials company, internally recruited 18 employees to work for 3 months with 6 startup companies. Their aim was to explore and work towards opportunities in the Circular Economy.

Varian

Finding Solutions for Radiation Therapy

Varian experts have kicked-off partnership negotiations with 6 companies in AI/ML and innovation for cancer treatment. After a round of internal interest check Varian will reach out to some of these teams offering them to become a part of Varian Innovation Center.

  • Market intelligence
  • Scouting
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More details?

Please get in touch with Kenneth Salonius if you should have any questions or if you need more details.

Kenneth Salonius

Strategy | Collaboration | Sales

kenneth@vertical.vc
+358 50 517 2348