See what’s coming to your industry while there’s still time to act on it
Bring Klaro the problem a business unit handed you. It finds every company working on it, from a university spin-out with three papers to the established suppliers already selling it, and tells you why each one made the list.
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“Klaro helped us discover the hidden 20% of opportunities we would have never found otherwise.”
The startup you haven’t found yet may already be in a competitor’s pilot
Scouting that takes a quarter gives a competitor a quarter to reach the founders first. And arriving late costs more than it used to. Large companies now hold their place for less than half as long as they did in the 1980s.
Average lifespan of a large company. Source: Innosight.
From a business unit’s question to a pilot worth running
Fewer scouting reports that sit unread, and more pilots the business unit actually asked for. Every step keeps their question, and the evidence, attached.
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Step 1 · The brief
Write the challenge the way the business unit said it
No keyword lists. Klaro turns the request into criteria you can see and change: the technology, the stage, the region, and what to leave out.
New spaceFrom the claims team“We want to settle simple home claims in a day. Who can assess water and storm damage from photos, and plug into our existing claims system?”
InsurtechComputer visionDamage assessmentEurope and North AmericaAPI availableExclude: motor onlyExample brief, for illustration.
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Step 2 · The space
See the whole space before you narrow it
Klaro groups every company that fits into sub-spaces, so you can tell the business where the activity is, and where nobody is working yet.
Claims automation, home insurance214 companies- Photo damage assessment64
- Fraud detection48
- Repair network platforms42
- Parametric triggers31
- Customer self-service29
Example output, counts illustrative.
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Step 3 · The shortlist
Shortlist the companies worth a call, with the evidence
Each company comes with the reason it fits: what it sells, what it has patented, who has backed it and who already runs it in production.
Shortlist4 of 214APhoto-based water damage scoring2 patent families · live with 3 insurersReady to pilotBStorm claims triage from satellite dataSeries A · university spin-outReady to pilotCContractor matching for repairsOpen API · 40 regional partnersPartnerDDamage segmentation research team11 papers · no product yetWatchExample output. Company names hidden.
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Step 4 · The recommendation
Give the business a recommendation it can check
Export the shortlist with its sources attached, so the business unit sees why these companies, and why now, before anyone books a pilot.
Report for the claims teamExportClaims automation: where to pilot first
- Recommendation
- Pilot company A on water claims in one region this quarter
- Why it fits
- Scores damage from customer photos; API fits the current claims system
- Why now
- Two competitors announced similar pilots in the last six months
- Sources
- Linked on every line: patents, papers, funding, news
Example output, for illustration.
That request from the business unit? Map it now.
Klaro read
- Papers and articles320M+
- Patents160M+
- Clinical trials600K+
- Companies60M+
Example request, counts illustrative.
Watch a technology move from the lab to the market
Put the technologies the business cares about on watch. Klaro reads new papers, patents, clinical trials and funding rounds as they come in, and shows you when one of them starts moving toward something you could buy, license or pilot. A new technology shows up in research long before it shows up in a company database.
- Solid-state electrolytes14 new papers this quarter, 3 from one spin-out
- Enzymatic plastic recyclingNew patent family filed by a packaging supplier
- Digital twins for gridsTwo seed rounds in six weeks
Example radar, for illustration.
Where innovation teams put Klaro to work
01Technology scoutingNovo Nordisk
Find the startups, spin-outs and research groups behind a technology the business needs, including the ones that haven’t raised yet.
How Novo Nordisk’s Open Innovation team scouts“We can now map 100% of a space in record time.”
02Startup and partner scoutingMAPFRE
Answer the next request from a business unit in hours, with a list of companies that match what they asked for.
How MAPFRE Open Innovation scouts startups“The beauty of Klaro is that it understands my search intent and identifies all the relevant startups we need.”
03Mapping a new fieldRoche
Map an emerging field across companies, patents and papers, and keep the map current instead of rebuilding it every year.
How Roche maps emerging technologies“The most prominent impact is certainly finding opportunities much faster than before.”
04Getting up to speed on a sectorKyocera
When a pitch lands in a sector you don’t know, see who else works on the problem and how they approach it before the next meeting.
How Kyocera gets up to speed on new sectors“Klaro has been invaluable for market mapping, delivering insights like funding, and expanding our reach to relevant companies.”
05Making the case to the businessROI calculator
Show business unit leaders the evidence behind every recommendation, so pilots start with their support and the results are easier to report. And when someone asks what the tool is worth, put a number on it.
Same formula as the ROI calculator on klaro.io, time savings only. The full calculator adds pipeline value and the license cost.
What changes, in numbers
Ranges reported by Klaro customers. Each pair compares the work before and with Klaro; the lighter end of the purple bar is the spread of the range.
Before your first search
Does Klaro only cover startups?
No. Klaro tracks more than 60 million companies of every type, from startups and university spin-outs to established suppliers and large corporates, plus 135,000+ research entities. Scouting for a technology partner and scouting for a startup work the same way.
How is this different from searching a company database?
You describe the challenge in plain language and Klaro works out which companies fit and why. Because it also reads patents, papers and clinical trials, it finds companies that a keyword search on company descriptions would miss.
How do I try it on a real challenge?
Type the challenge in the box at the bottom of this page. Klaro opens with it filled in and starts mapping the space. It’s free to use with your work email, and there’s no call to book first.
What has the business asked you to find?
The space keeps moving every week. See who’s in it today, including the companies nobody on your team has heard of yet.
Free to use with your work email.
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