Make collaboration with tech startups work.
Finding the right startup is only the beginning. Scale & Wings brings the clarity, alignment and structure your organisation needs to turn a promising opportunity into scalable value.
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About Scale & Wings
Structured enough to deliver.
Agile enough to innovate.
Our purpose is clear: to help large organisations accelerate innovation through collaboration with tech startups - and make that collaboration succeed.
A promising opportunity is not enough. Success requires clarity, alignment, the right people and resources, sound decisions and trust on both sides.
Scale & Wings helps large organisations create these conditions throughout the journey - from defining the challenge and assessing readiness to selecting a partner, designing the collaboration, running a pilot and deciding whether to scale.
We combine the structure collaboration needs with the human dynamics that make it work. Our innovation enablers can be activated wherever support is needed - from the human side of innovative change and constructive social dialogue to capability building, focused mentoring, startup growth and legal support.
Organisations can work with us throughout the full journey or bring us in where support is most needed.
Our Values
Our values shape the work we take on, the decisions we make and the way we collaborate. They keep our approach human, responsible and focused on creating value that lasts.
Innovation Starts with People
Technology can enable change, but people make it work. We keep the human side of innovative change at the centre, using AI and other technologies to strengthen human capabilities - while preserving human judgement, participation and trust.
Impact Beyond the Pilot
We focus on outcomes that matter. Every collaboration should move beyond activity and experimentation to create measurable, sustainable value for the organisation, the startup and the people affected by the change.
Integrity in Every Decision
We believe innovation should be both ambitious and responsible. Our work is grounded in integrity, with honesty, transparency, confidentiality and reliability at the heart of every collaboration.
Better Decisions, Built Together
We do not impose ready-made answers. We bring the right perspectives together, co-create decisions and work towards balanced outcomes in which both sides can succeed.
Excellence Without Complexity
We combine quality and rigour with simplicity and efficiency. We remain disciplined, persistent and practical, making complex collaborations easier to understand, manage and move forward.
Our Experts
The right expertise for every part of the collaboration.
Corporate–startup collaboration can face strategic, technical, organisational and human challenges. Our European network brings together experienced professionals from these different fields.
Grounded in research. Shaped by practice. Delivered by experts.
- 20+ years of combined hands-on experience across large organisations, startups and innovation ecosystems
- An evidence-based approach shaped by more than 100 interviews and engagement with 2,000+ corporate and startup leaders across 160+ countries
- A structured, end-to-end methodology translating research into the decisions and actions needed to move from opportunity to scale
- A European network of senior experts brought in according to the specific needs of each collaboration
We bring together the experts your situation requires-without imposing a large, fixed consulting team.
Our Services
From Opportunity to Impact
We support organisations from defining the challenge and assessing readiness to selecting a partner, designing the collaboration, running a pilot and deciding whether to scale. Organisations can work with us throughout the full collaboration or ask for support at one specific point.
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Bring us the challenge—not a perfectly formed brief.
Whether you are defining an innovation challenge, looking for the right startup, preparing a pilot or trying to unblock an existing collaboration, we can help you identify the most useful next step.