As a global company building a platform to connect a global innovator network, we value our employees’ and partners’ diverse voices. All of our stakeholders — from our innovators to our employees, our clients and our investors — appreciate the creativity of our technically, culturally and geographically diverse team.
— Matt Ferguson, PhD, Vice President of Network and Technology
“As most business leaders know, building a team that represents as much of society as possible is one of the keys to business success. But simply hiring from diverse backgrounds doesn’t mean much without a company culture that encourages all employees to feel comfortable floating new ideas and freely debating key decisions.
Some businesses, however, do go the extra mile to elevate all voices and tap into wells of experience and perspective that, for too long, have been ignored by the industry. To learn more, we had leaders at three Seattle tech companies take us through their methods for building an inclusive environment that elevates employees from all backgrounds, as well as the projects that have directly benefited from their approach.”
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Why Xinova
Innovation thrives on the unimpeded exchange of ideas, talent and capital. We have built a trusted global network with an incentive system that shares upside among all participants. Xinova has developed this structure in its global innovation market network with innovators, technologies, investors and startups in over 120 countries with world-class capabilities in finding, assessing, licensing, and developing international technologies. By aligning talent, technology, capital and demand through the first-of-its-kind innovation market network, which utilizes machine learning, distributed computing and modern technology platforms, Xinova connects global innovation supply to project demand for global customers such as PepsiCo, Funai, and an array of small companies and governments around the world.
Xinova accelerates innovation end-to-end. With unique digital tools and unprecedented business intelligence, we are automating the process of innovation, de-risking and unblocking it to drive growth at all points of the innovation lifecycle. We’ve created networks supporting each pillar of innovation, complete with tools and proprietary organizational structures essential to a distributed model. The end result aligns and connects:
- Capital: funding resources such as Arcnet
- Technology: established public and private IP and new inventions
- Talent: inventors, designers, bankers, engineers, consultants, business developers, entrepreneurs including teams from leading institutions, such as CalTech, China Academy of Sciences, IITs in India
- Demand: MNCs, SMEs, governments, startups, including companies such as Pepsi and Hyundai