MVP·Draft C: The Evidence

The category, in numbers.

Venture clienting's public evidence base: the figures every board deck borrows, with sources attached. This page exists so the category has one address, and it answers to no slideshow.

€500M+1
verified business impact across venture clienting customers
1 in 41
assessed suppliers get piloted
~59%1
of completed pilots scale into adoption
66,0002
startup-corporate links scanned: €4.3B corporate impact, €0.6B startup revenue

A decade from one garage to a category.

2015
BMW Startup Garage opensThe first venture client unit: BMW becomes a paying first client of startups instead of an investor, and adopts startup tech at a claimed 10x the previous rate.3
2019
GlassDollar founded in BerlinVenture clienting gets an operating system: pain points in, sourcing over 20M+ companies, pilots and impact tracked.4
2023
Deloitte acquires 27pilotsThe model's inventor sells his services firm to a Big Four. Venture clienting is now consultancy-grade mainstream.5
2024
Gartner lists the modelVenture client units appear in Gartner's hype cycle for innovation practices; adoption spans 10+ industries from Airbus to Zurich Insurance.5
2026
The evidence gets measurableGlassDollar's scan of 66,000 startup-corporate links puts hard numbers on the category. This directory makes them public.2

Why corporations keep budgets here.

Not innovation theater. The unit KPIs are euros, speed, and leverage.

€55B vs €6B2

Siemens taps roughly €55B of external VC-funded R&D against €6B of its own. The leverage ratio is the boardroom argument.

~12 weeks2

A pilot window on a low five-figure budget, with pre-approved procurement. Faster than any build-or-buy alternative.

10 to 20%2

of pilots later become equity stakes or acquisitions. The client relationship comes first, the investment case follows the evidence.

Where the units are.

Live from the draft directory dataset. Grows as the directory grows.

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