Plug and Play

“The support from DualTech by Takeoff managed by Plug and Play is extraordinary. Strategically, for Italy and for the alliance, the implementation of this kind of program, like DIANA, is extraordinary.”

“We were encouraged to think bigger, validate faster, and connect with the right people to accelerate our growth.”

“We believe programmable networks will play a key role in shaping the IT society of the coming years. This vision is absolutely aligned with our objective to create a more intelligent infrastructure for the future. The collaboration between Politecnico di Torino and Plug and Play is wonderful because it fills a gap we currently face as a university. We start with ideas, our researchers create prototypes, and then we need to turn those prototypes into real value.”

“When we think about how to get into the market, we feel like we need the right partner, and Plug and Play is the right one for us. I’ve learned a lot from Plug and Play. One of the most important is how we can make good decisions on AI startups.”

““Working with Plug and Play on big projects is certainly very interesting.””

““In the past we had to do all the research ourselves to understand what's out there. Now we can talk to Plug and Play, we can indicate that we're looking for a solution in a specific area and they can source possible start-ups for us talk to, do a deal flow and decide which of them we want to go forward with.””

““For us, Plug and Play plays a crucial role in helping us to understand the market and identify those solutions that can help us with specific problems.””

““Through Startup Creasphere, we are partnering with digital health startups to accelerate innovation for patients and our customers by augmenting our core diagnostic solutions to change care pathways, creating new insight solutions, and enhancing our internal value chain.””

“"The ultimate long-term vision is not only supporting innovation globally but also enabling Roche affiliates and countries to tap into all the local innovation out there, supporting the local market needs."”

““Our two brands attract fintech & insurtech startups that want to complete a pilot with BNP Paribas for several months. After the batch, they benefit from the success of the industrialization into BNP Paribas and from Plug and Play’s large financial network all over the world””

““The development of our collaboration with startups is an integral part of our transformation process, in order to better serve our clients and build the bank of the future. Our partnership with Plug and Play illustrates this, and we are delighted that the startups of our program are installed in Station F.””

“I recommend the international angle of the startup portfolio of Plug and Play. They always have solutions that can meet a market need. We also appreciate their closeness to our business problematics and the depth of knowledge they have when looking at the topic together.”

“Plug and Play is more than an accelerator. They are a bridge to global innovation. If your city, region, or ecosystem desires to understand how to bring startups and corporations together and how to inspire a collaborative ecosystem, Plug and Play is the right partner to help you succeed and do that.”

“We are strongly committed to constantly developing new products and services for our customers and to streamline our processes. We are therefore happy to partner with the right startups and fintechs in order to accelerate our digital transformation. Our partnership with Plug and Play has been very valuable, as it allowed us to meet a large number of very promising fintechs. Working with them also gave us the opportunity to pilot and assess interesting solutions on an ongoing basis, and across a very wide spectrum, from retail to corporate and investment banking”

“What we realized was it’s very hard for us to just pick winners, but if we went the accelerator route, it really ensured that our network would have the best possible startups. And when we started interviewing different accelerators, it became very clear that Plug and Play is the pro in the space.”

“Plug and Play was one of our early believers. They invested in us before the product was ready. Having Plug and Play stand behind us and echo that sentiment really helped build the confidence with both our investors as well as our clients.”

“We’ve been building out our pipeline now to this month, will be about 750,000 certificates on chain with a real-world asset value of about $1.2 billion, and we’ve built out an incredible pipeline with the Plug and Play community.”

“The innovation training brought all the decision-makers of our company on the same page, making us aware of the urgency to innovate and providing us with the right tools to start.”

“I think the biggest thing about Plug and Play for us is just the breadth that Plug and Play offers us in terms of all of the different industry verticals, even beyond the ones that we participate as anchor partners — that being Food & Beverage and New Materials & Packaging.”

“Really, the core remit for our team as External Innovation is how do we work externally to accelerate the innovation that we need as a company, and Plug and Play is probably our biggest partner in that space to help us do that.”

“Plug and Play is a place where the most innovative startups from around the world meet the most powerful global corporates, working together with the goal to make this world a better place.”

““We defined our smart device as user-centric, smart, emphatic, connected, automated, shared, and electric, and we undertook all design and product development processes with this understanding, and partnering with Plug and Play gets us one step ahead of competition each day. In this journey, Plug and Play understands us in every aspect and goes beyond the traditional approach, helping us create a completely new ecosystem of mobility and smart cities.””

““Being together with Plug and Play is vivid, it’s colorful, lots of startups and ideas. We are quite happy to have this collaboration, we value it very much.””

“At Visa, we believe partnerships can unlock a deeper understanding of the emerging use cases in the payments ecosystem. We’re excited to partner with Plug and Play to innovate with fintechs and crypto platforms at all stages of the startup lifecycle on new money movement experiences.”

“Cultivating an outside-in mindset over the years, we have gathered more interest across various business units to experiment and try out new solutions via Plug and Play. This has allowed us to maximize the dealflows we conduct, ensuring we can run more pilots and POCs.”