Corporate Innovation Key Metrics for Measuring Corporate Innovation Measuring the success of your corporate innovation efforts can be challenging, especially when it comes to choosing the right metrics. Driving from this challenge, in 2025, we launched the first-ever Corporate Startup Activity Index, ranking corporates’ based on their startup related actions, across dozens of parameters. The final rankings are determined by a total score […]
Corporate Innovation How to Pick the Right Startups for Corporate Partnerships Corporate partnerships with startups have become a key strategy for large companies to stay relevant, accelerate innovation, and minimize the risks associated with heavy investments in unproven internal technologies. Many big tech corporations such as Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others are launching various initiatives to connect with startups. These collaborations can take the form of […]
Corporate Innovation Top Corporate Innovation Events 2025 Corporate Innovation has evolved beyond research and development labs, and R&D departments. The most successful companies now have collaborations externally with startups, scaleups, and academic research organizations to promote change. Similarly structured global events provide the opportunity for this collaboration to happen: corporates scout startups for examples to onboard their strategic challenges, venture arms find […]
General Articles Best Productivity Suites for Startups in 2025 For startups, productivity is essential for both survival and growth. Founders and teams need reliable systems, clear collaboration, and organized workflows. Choosing the right productivity suite can help a startup move from confusion to structure, improving efficiency, teamwork, and focus. The choice of suite can make the difference between a company that grows smoothly and […]
General Articles Best Collaboration Tools for Remote Teams The workplace has changed dramatically in recent years. Startups are often distributed across time zones, corner offices are replaced by coffee shops, and remote teams play a central role in how modern businesses grow. With people working from different locations, the challenge becomes how to maintain clarity, speed, and alignment. More meetings aren’t the solution. […]
Innovation Industries Research and Reports Vertical Reports Top Unicorn Cities and Countries in 2025 Unicorns are startups valued at over $1 billion, and are among the one of the main indicators of an ecosystem’s maturity, capital access, and ability to scale globally. In the 2025 data, unicorn distribution remains highly concentrated, with just ten countries accounting for the overwhelming majority of the world’s billion-dollar startups. StartupBlink’s dataset highlights where […]
Corporate Innovation Leaders in Aerospace & Aviation Corporate Startup Collaboration Aerospace and aviation are complex and capital-intensive industries, with long development cycles and high resource needs. In these sectors, corporate startup collaboration is critical. Startups gain access to funding, testing facilities, certification pathways, and technical expertise, while corporations benefit from agile R&D and new technologies. In the Corporate Startup Activity Index 2025, the aerospace & […]
General Articles InnoVEX 2025: Global Startup Ecosystems at Country & City Pavilions InnoVEX 2025, the startup exhibition of COMPUTEX Taipei, marked its 10th anniversary from May 20–23, 2025, at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (Hall 2, TaiNEX 2). Organized by the Taipei Computer Association (TCA) and TAITRA, the event drew more than 450 startups from 24 countries and regions, its largest edition so far. The theme, “AI […]
General Articles Top Cities for Startups in Africa in 2025 In the Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2025, Africa is represented by 5 cities in the global top 150 and 16 cities in the global top 1,000. While Lagos, Cairo, and Nairobi remain the continent’s established anchors, several ecosystems—including Johannesburg, Casablanca, and Kampala—posted some of the fastest growth rates worldwide. On average, African cities recorded a […]
General Articles Top Cities for Startups in Latin America in 2025 In the 2025 Global Startup Ecosystem Index, Latin America recorded 9 cities in the global top 200 and 27 in the global top 1,000. Several ecosystems returned to positive momentum after years of stagnation, while others consolidated their leadership with steady growth. The region’s cities achieved an average growth rate of 20.6%, with notable outliers […]
Research and Reports Top Countries by Total Startup Output 2025 How do you compare a massive population country like China with a country like Estonia when analyzing startup ecosystems? One has over a billion people; the other, just over a million. This population gap makes direct comparisons difficult, especially when using raw startup counts. To address this, the Global Startup Ecosystem Index (GSEI) uses a […]