Venture clienting, with a workspace

Your innovation team — now in one workspace.

ekipa managers run your venture clienting project. VentureKit is where you watch it move forward — every signal, lead, and decision in one place. No inbox archaeology, no Friday slide deck, no “where are we again?”

The cost of email + PowerPoint

Three numbers your venture program is quietly losing every quarter.

6hrs / wk
Lost reconciling status across email, decks, and Excel.

Per stakeholder. The platform replaces the catch-up call with a live workspace they actually log into.

23days
Average lag from signal to go/no-go on PPT-driven programs.

VentureKit projects average 3 days to a scored shortlist, 11 days to decision.

0
Auditable decision records when your CFO asks why this pilot.

Every decision in VentureKit ships with citations, scoring, and the conversation history attached.

How we work together

Your consultant brings the project forward.
The workspace makes it visible.

Every phase has two sides: the work your ekipa manager is doing, and the artifact you see in the platform. Nothing lives in an inbox or a deck.

Phase
What your ekipa manager does
What you see in the workspace
Phase 01

Sense

Scans the market and the 10k+ ekipa provider network for signals that match your strategy.

~2 weeks of scoutingCurated, not crawled

A radar with three things to act on this quarter — owner, deadline, falsification date attached.

Live in your projectCommentable
Phase 02

Shortlist

Scores the longlist against your criteria. Runs 30 startup intro callsso you don’t have to.

Independent diligenceNotes per call

A shortlist with scoring, voting, citations — your sponsors decide in-app, not by reply-all.

3-day decision sprintAudit-ready
Phase 03

Decide

Drafts the recommendation with provider profile, conversation history, and the trade-offs.

Honest pros & consNo vendor pitch

A decision record on the lead — approve, reject, or request more info, signed off in one click.

CFO-defensibleTime-stamped
Phase 04

Pilot

Stays embedded through pilot delivery — runs the weekly with the startup, surfaces blockers before they bite.

Hands-on PMVendor + you

A live milestone view with weekly status, owners, and a post-pilot retro that feeds the next radar cycle.

No status emailCloses the loop
Quantifiable, actionable, accessible

Every project, on one screen.

Open VentureKit and see exactly what’s moving, what’s blocking, and what only you can unblock. The work is in numbers and links — not adjectives.

Portfolio · LBBW Innovation
Live · synced 38s ago
Active projects
4
●  steady
Leads in motion
36
↑  +9 this week
Decisions on you
3
!  2 overdue
Hours saved vs. baseline
26h
↑  this quarter

Projects

Smart Logistics 2026
Pilot · Wk 4/8
55%
Live
Battery 2nd Life
Decide · 2 leads
70%
On you
AI for Service Ops
Shortlist · scoring
38%
Scoping
Industrial Vision
Sense · clustering
14%
Scoping

This week

Mon
Justin scored 12 providers on Smart Logistics
Tue
Cargolume moved to Pilot Discussion
Wed
Anja (BU) approved Northstack pilot scope
Thu
Decision needed: Greenwave MSA terms
Fri
Cellpath shipped Wk 4 milestone
Versus the alternative

A folder of PDFs is not a venture program.

Today
VentureKit
Email + PowerPoint
One link, always current
Lead status in someone's head
Pipeline with owner, next action, due date
Approval by reply-all
Decision records — citations + scoring attached
Friday status deck
Live activity feed — refresh, not request
Built for the corporate side

One workspace. Three stakeholders. Each sees what they need.

For the Innovation lead

Run the program from one place.

Signals, leads, decisions, reports — all where your sponsors already log in.

“Every signal has an owner. Every lead has a next step.”
For the BU sponsor

Visibility without sitting on every call.

Comment on the artifacts that matter. Decide on the leads that need you.

“15 minutes a week, not three meetings.”
For the C-level sponsor

Portfolio dashboard, not a slide.

One view across every venture engagement. No Monday catch-up.

“Where are we, on every project, in 30 seconds.”
Proof, not promises

What stakeholders say after we ship.

“We picked ekipa because we could try a real program first instead of committing to a platform. The result convinced us so much we’ve now run three projectson VentureKit — and our BU sponsors actually log into it.”

Franziska Pillmann
Franziska Pillmann
Lead Innovation Consulting & Foresight, LBBW
Start the conversation

Tell me where your projectis. I’ll take it from there.

30-minute call, no slide deck. I’ll walk you through a sample workspace and match you to the right next step.

Justin Gemeri
Justin Gemeri
Innovation consultant · ekipa

“Six years of running these. I’ll tell you what’s hard before you sign anything.”

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