Innovation Services

We share our wealth of expertise to design, build and operate tailor made programs for your company to find the brightest startups and incorporate them into your business in an agile way. We focus on business impact and
make the difference.

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Startups have worked with Telefónica

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Business development for our startups

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Revenues for Telefónica through our startups

We support innovation

SERVICES TO CORPORATES

Our solid experience as Telefonica's Corporate Venture Capital and Open Innovation arm makes us the best ally to support other companies and institutions in designing and implementing their open innovation initiatives. ​

INNOVATION PLATFORMS

We bring open innovation platforms to our strategic partners to run joint open innovation initiatives and generate value to our industries.

Services to Telefónica

  • We support to Telefónica by developing programs with third parties in strategic verticals to become partners of the future game changers.
  • We collaborate with leading technology companies such as Cisco for telecommunications servers and Meta, and Qualcomm for the Metaverse.
  • More than 330 startups from our portfolio have worked with Telefonica.

To corporates

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We know that doing Open Innovation at a Corporate can be challenging: we help you to overcome corporate barriers, processes and systems in order to speed up the set up and the implementation of your Open Innovation initiatives.

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We help you to boost your Open Innovation and Venture Capital unit by defining and implementing the most effective initiatives leveraging our expertise and our large team of experts.

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We have more than 15 years experience in connecting startups to businesses.

Inspired by our powerful knowledge around the entrepreneurial ecosystem, we have built a wide range of innovation services to drive change and digitalization together with corporations that do not want to be left behind.

Meet our clients
IDENTIFY AND DO BUSINESS WITH THE MOST DISRUPTIVE STARTUPS
We will leverage our scouting tools and partners, and our scouting teams based in different regions, to identify and give you access to top startups around the globe.

Unlock corporate innovation
potential

CUSTOMIZED INNOVATION HUBS AND VC PROGRAMS
We help you to design, build and execute your Open Innovation strategy: open calls, acceleration programmes, intrapreneurship programmes, VC strategy…
TECH LABS AND PRODUCT PILOTING
We had to hack the system to do it ourselves in Telefónica. We will show you how to change, adapt and upgrade your corporate culture, your processes and your platforms so you can do it yourself, too!
POSITION YOUR BRAND IN THE ECOSYSTEMS
Fast track to the innovation ecosystems with marketing and comms initiatives: brand creation, social media management and presence in international innovation events.

Innovation platforms

Alaian is the telecommunications alliance of leading companies in the industry (Cellnex, KPN, MTN, NOS, Omantel, Orange, STC, Wind Tre and Telefónica) with more than 1Bn customers and presence in 65 markets, that brings together the telco industry and the world’s most disruptive startups.

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Open Future is a public-private open innovation platform to foster the creation and the growth of local and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. Find out where the more than 20 spaces in Spain and Hispam are located.

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