Your Open Innovation ecosystem in one platform.

Search a growing directory of technology providers by capability, sector and location, and see what a company actually does before you contact anyone. Every profile carries a short description, capability tags and a link to the company's own site, so a long list becomes a shortlist in one sitting. The directory is curated rather than scraped — it is built around the small, young, innovative companies that are hard to find in the usual databases. You filter by the technology you need, not by the buzzword attached to it.

See where companies are actively looking for new technologies, partners and solutions right now. Each challenge sets out the problem, what a good solution looks like, who is asking and by when — the kind of detail you would normally only get after three meetings. Some are published openly, others anonymously while the company decides how much it wants to reveal. Browsing them costs nothing and tells you what an industry is quietly worried about.

Discover research institutes, universities, networks and ecosystem partners that can contribute expertise, access or capabilities you do not have in-house. Innovation projects often stall on a single missing piece that somebody nearby already has — a method, a certification route, a funding instrument, a group of people who have solved it before. Organisations describe what they offer and which sectors they work in, so you can approach them with something specific. It is frequently the fastest way to make a project fundable as well as feasible.

Find labs, test benches, facilities and real-world environments where technologies can be validated and developed before they go anywhere near a customer. Building test capability from scratch is slow and expensive, and a great deal of it already exists and sits unused for much of the year. Each entry describes the equipment, what it is suitable for and who operates it. Think of it as borrowing the proving ground instead of building one.

See which investors are active on the platform and what they are actually looking for — stage, sector and the kind of company they tend to back. Corporate innovation and venture capital pull in the same direction far more often than either side expects, and the platform puts both in one place. Profiles show focus areas rather than just a name and a logo, so you can tell early whether a conversation is worth having. A technology that needs a pilot customer and a funding round should not have to be searched for in two separate places.

Bring your technology into a concrete industrial use case by applying directly to the company that posted the challenge. Applications reach the people who wrote the brief rather than a generic inbox, and you can follow where each one stands from your own dashboard. You are answering a stated need instead of making a cold approach, which changes the conversation entirely. For a small company it is the shortest honest route to a serious first meeting with a large one.

Turn a technological need into a structured search, challenge, prototype and partnership process together with prototype.club. Not every problem is ready to be posted as a challenge — sometimes the requirement is still vague, or the right question has not been found yet. We work through scoping, scouting and evaluation with you, and then run the prototype or pilot phase that follows. The platform gives the search its reach; the team makes sure it arrives somewhere.