Technology Scouting Software

Leverage our Technology Scouting software, powered by Traction AI, to find, evaluate, implement, and manage new technologies. Streamline, standardize, and automate your process for identifying the right enterprise-ready technologies. With Traction, you will find partners faster, evaluate them with greater depth, and make more confident decisions.

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Find Exactly What You’re Looking For

Search for new technologies by custom criteria and map where they fit in the technology landscape.

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Leverage Multiple Lists and Databases

Combine your research with our database of 50,000+ vetted, enterprise-ready technology partners.

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Identify and Make Warm Introductions

See who in your company already has relationships with prospective technology partners.

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THE Challenge

Too Many Technology Options

Evaluating new enterprise technologies without a technology and innovation scouting platform is not easy. For every problem you identify, you must discover, vet, and implement the one technology out of many that best solves it. To do so, you and your team must spend a substantial amount of time and resources weeding through dozens — or even hundreds— of seemingly viable products and ideas. This technology-selection process creates numerous challenges.

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Time-Consuming

Must dedicate a lot of time to research new technologies when resources are already stretched thin

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Too Many Choices

Must accurately evaluate the 50,000+ enterprise-ready startups on the market using limited data.

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Who To Trust?

Must rely on external analysts who may have a vested interest in promoting certain products over others.

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No Single Source Of Information

Get out of individual spreadsheets and break down innovation silos to ensure cross-functional teams are aligned.

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THE Solution: Our Software

Go From Discovery to Proof-of-Concept Faster

The Traction technology and innovation scouting platform is designed by technology scouts, for technology scouts. Leading innovation teams across the Fortune 500 use Traction to accelerate and automate every step of the technology scouting process—from searching and identifying to evaluating and managing technology candidates.

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With Traction's technology scouting software, powered by Traction AI, you can:

  • Tap into our database of 50,000+ vetted, enterprise-ready startups.

  • Take advantage of Traction's advanced search tools and filters to narrow down your search by maturity, funding, location, technology, industry, or numerous other factors.

  • Visualize the technology landscape across any sector and turn any search into a sleek, downloadable chart.

  • Organize companies into short lists, and score them with configurable rating templates.

If you ever hit a sticking point in your research and need hands-on help, don't worry. We are just a button click away. You can make research requests directly from our technology scouting platform. Your request will be completed by our team of veteran analysts and researchers, who will discover and evaluate new technologies and upload to Traction technology landscapes, company due diligence, or shortlists of vetted candidates for you.

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Research Services
50,000+ Enterprise Company Database

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Custom Reports and Shortlist
Customizable Charts + Shortlists

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Scouting Platform
Advanced Search and Filtering

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Download Our Technology Scouting Checklist

If you're a Senior IT Executive, Technology Scout, Innovation Leader, work in Corporate Venture - or are otherwise responsible for business technology transformation - then you know how challenging it is to deliver wins year after year. Our 7-step checklist can help you avoid common pitfalls of the technology scouting and startup evaluation process so you can be successful at delivering technologies and partnerships that really move the needle.

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Our Customers

Innovation Leaders Trust Traction

4.5 out of 5 Stars
"A helpful tool to keep track of our Vendors and selection efforts"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? The software is fairly intuitive to use. The product team is very supportive. We are able to easily add vendors to our database and setup custom fields to track the key information we need. The tool also allows us to send out requests to the vendors to keep the info up to date. "
4.5 Stars out of 5
"Great tool that can be leveraged for efficiently organizing and tracking startups."

What do you like best about Traction Technology? The founders have been very active in engaging with our company to develop new features for specific use cases.
4.5 Stars out 5
"Wonderful system backed by great people"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? Traction is a flexible solution for many reverse CRM needs in my organization. The custom solution they added for our needs has become an invaluable tool for GSK R&D!
5 Stars out of 5
‍"An important partnership!"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? We have been working with Traction Technology for several years, especially for technology sourcing and progress management of collaboration with startups. They are attentive to understanding our needs, and the outputs are always gratifying.
5 Stars out of 5
"Central product for our Innovation strategy"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? Traction is the perfect tool to bring all our innovation activities together. Allowing us to collate, review and assess the latest companies on one platform as a team.
5 Stars out of 5
"Great experience with Traction Tech"

‍What do you like best about Traction Technology? The ease of use of the platform and the team works well with our needs and innovation team.
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Traction Technologies helped launch an expansion of a corporate venture scouting effort with a brilliant analyst, a customizable data platform and the personal engagement of their co-founders. It is one of the best professional services engagements I’ve experienced."

Louis Kim

VP, HP Inc.

"
I think what you are doing is important to the entire corporate innovation community. We still use spreadsheets. We need this."

Chief Innovation Officer

Consumer Goods Company

"
We were looking to combine our Ideation tool and startup management process. Traction is the perfect combination."

Head of Emerging Technology

Startup Liaison Officer

"
We threw our hardest problems at Traction. Whether it was machine learning, spatial search, or predictive analytics, Traction always delivered."

SVP

Emerging Technologies, Fortune 50 company

"
Traction introduced us to AI robotics startups from the manufacturing world that we could apply to our industry. We would have never found them on our own."

CIO

Restaurant chain

"
You guys think about the problem the same way I do"

Startup Liaison Officer

Defense Contractor

Our Customers

Innovation Leaders Trust Traction

4.5 out of 5 Stars
"A helpful tool to keep track of our Vendors and selection efforts"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? The software is fairly intuitive to use. The product team is very supportive. We are able to easily add vendors to our database and setup custom fields to track the key information we need. The tool also allows us to send out requests to the vendors to keep the info up to date. "
4.5 Stars out of 5
"Great tool that can be leveraged for efficiently organizing and tracking startups."

What do you like best about Traction Technology? The founders have been very active in engaging with our company to develop new features for specific use cases.
4.5 Stars out 5
"Wonderful system backed by great people"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? Traction is a flexible solution for many reverse CRM needs in my organization. The custom solution they added for our needs has become an invaluable tool for GSK R&D!
5 Stars out of 5
‍"An important partnership!"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? We have been working with Traction Technology for several years, especially for technology sourcing and progress management of collaboration with startups. They are attentive to understanding our needs, and the outputs are always gratifying.
5 Stars out of 5
"Central product for our Innovation strategy"

What do you like best about Traction Technology? Traction is the perfect tool to bring all our innovation activities together. Allowing us to collate, review and assess the latest companies on one platform as a team.
5 Stars out of 5
"Great experience with Traction Tech"

‍What do you like best about Traction Technology? The ease of use of the platform and the team works well with our needs and innovation team.
"
Traction Technologies helped launch an expansion of a corporate venture scouting effort with a brilliant analyst, a customizable data platform and the personal engagement of their co-founders. It is one of the best professional services engagements I’ve experienced."

Louis Kim

VP, HP Inc.

"
I think what you are doing is important to the entire corporate innovation community. We still use spreadsheets. We need this."

Chief Innovation Officer

Consumer Goods Company

"
We were looking to combine our Ideation tool and startup management process. Traction is the perfect combination."

Head of Emerging Technology

Startup Liaison Officer

"
We threw our hardest problems at Traction. Whether it was machine learning, spatial search, or predictive analytics, Traction always delivered."

SVP

Emerging Technologies, Fortune 50 company

"
Traction introduced us to AI robotics startups from the manufacturing world that we could apply to our industry. We would have never found them on our own."

CIO

Restaurant chain

"
You guys think about the problem the same way I do"

Startup Liaison Officer

Defense Contractor

Our Results

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3x

faster

evaluation and deployment of new technologies

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30%

fewer

internal resources needed for innovation management

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6x

more

products considered for pilot or full implementation

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50%

less cost

than running multiple point solutions

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