At Next Commerce Accelerator we identify innovative services and technologies, challenge product ideas and market readiness, source, and screen the best startups, do the selection process, and invest in meaningful business models.
Boost your corporate innovation strategy by learning from selected startups.
Each corporate is different and faces other challenges. Therefore we develop individual search radars with all our partners identifying individual needs and possible solutions.
Attractive and easy possibility to test-drive new products and services frequently. Be the first to try and implement innovative business ideas.
Corporate partners are provided with full access to our sourcing process. Find meaningful businesses to partner with and gain an unfair advantage.
From joint workshops to preeminent events, corporates are given the opportunity to interact with startups in close communication on several occasions.
Participate in the startups’ success and become part of their accomplishments by being an indirect shareholder.
Get a direct share by having the chance to become an early stage follow-on investor or even a buyer of promising NCA startups.
As a partner of the Next Commerce Accelerator, we gain constant access to new technologies, marketing approaches or distribution channels that enable us to identify customer needs early on and sharpen our own offerings.
Sylvia Tantzen
CMO at novomind
In order to identify trends at an early stage and drive digitization processes forward, the NCA, together with our other activities, forms an important component of our innovation strategy.
Dirk Ploss
Digital Technologies Scouting and Advisory at Beiersdorf
Diversity of talents and a broad spectrum of competencies are an important success factor for companies in times of disruption and transformation. With a commitment to the NCA, we are breaking new ground to get to know interesting talents and start-ups with the aim of benefiting both sides.
Alexandra Heinrichs
VP HR DACH & Nordics at Unilever
When it comes to innovative concepts, we as an already quite well-digitalized company are always ahead. The cooperation with the NCA gives us a taste of tomorrow’s market air and constantly shows solutions for new challenges.
Axel Junge
Managing Partner at Konditorei Junge
The cooperation with Next Commerce Accelerator gives us flexible and fast access to relevant business solutions that provide answers to our digital challenges and also enable us to bring the mindset of start-ups to large traditional companies like Tchibo.
Juliane Tern
Head of Digital Strategy & Projects at Tchibo
As an industrial company, we are always interested in innovative digital business models and distribution channels and look forward to the exchange with founders and investors.
Matthias Schulz
Team Leader Digital Business at OTTO KRAHN Corporate Functions
Bringing corporates and start-ups closer together, i.e. making it easier for companies to access innovation, was our driving force in 2017 to create the NCA together with partners. The NCA attracts talent and ideas to the city. This strengthens the sustainability of one of the region’s most important economic segments.
Andreas Mansfeld
Area Director Corporate Customers at Haspa
We are backed by more than 25 commerce industry-related investors. All of them ready to test-drive our startup’s services or products since 2017.
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