“With the support of RevelX, we set up Qmarkets as a key building block for our corporate venturing activities. Their expertise helped us structure startup scouting and collaboration with external parties through the Qmarkets platform.”
Corporate Venturing, Alliander Next Grid
Alliander Next Grid is the innovation arm of Alliander, one of the largest energy network companies in the Netherlands, and explores, builds, tests and scales up new solutions together with startups, scale-ups and innovators. Through Next Grid Venturing, it partners with European startups and scale-ups to help promising ideas move from first exploration to pilot and practical application.
As the energy transition accelerates, Alliander Next Grid needed a structured and scalable way to run open innovation challenges and source relevant startups. Screening high volumes of submissions and managing the deal flow from idea to pilot also had to become more efficient and transparent.
RevelX facilitated blueprint sessions, training and implemented the Qmarkets platform as the digital backbone of Alliander Next Grid’s open innovation approach, covering the full funnel from challenge design and AI-powered startup scouting to structured evaluation and pilot tracking. Combined with hands-on coaching and a dedicated open innovation portal, this enabled rapid adoption and invited startups from across Europe to contribute.
Alliander Next Grid now runs startup scouting and open innovation challenges through one structured, scalable process. Submissions are screened faster and more consistently, and startups across Europe have a clear entry point to collaborate. Every opportunity is tracked transparently, from first idea all the way to pilot.
