Our Services

Focus Area Monitoring

ID8’s Focus Area Monitoring creates continuous research streams aligned to your priorities, combining automated data aggregation with expert-curated insights. This living intelligence captures startup activity, technology shifts, competitive movements, and academic developments, all synthesized through tailored learning plans. Rather than relying on one-off projects that quickly become obsolete, your team gains ongoing visibility into critical focus areas. Powered by our Nexus platform and guided by experienced researchers, this service delivers timely, actionable insights that help you detect opportunities, refine strategies, and maintain an informed view of the market without adding internal burden.

Incubations & Venture Building

Design, validate, and launch new ventures with founder-driven discipline and entrepreneurial execution.

Building real businesses from new ideas is where many innovation efforts falter. Internal constraints, risk aversion, and lack of founder-level execution often stall promising concepts before they gain traction. ID8’s Incubation & Venture Building service brings entrepreneurial discipline to every stage of the journey, from concept development and validation through to launch. Our team of founders, operators, and venture investors works alongside corporate teams to shape ideas into investable ventures using fast-cycle experimentation and hands-on execution. This capital-efficient approach helps organizations test and build new businesses without adding headcount, ensuring ventures are market-aligned and ready to scale inside or outside the enterprise.

Venture Clienting

Accelerate access to external innovation through startup pilots that are built for scalability inside your business.

Venture Clienting offers a faster, lower-risk way to engage startups and solve real business challenges without the overhead of traditional partnerships or corporate venture investments. ID8 helps companies pilot disruptive technologies quickly and cost-effectively by acting as a bridge between startups and internal business units. Through rapid, targeted pilots tied to strategic priorities, we help validate solutions, accelerate time-to-market, de-risk potential investments, and build internal champions for scale. Our team manages the process end-to-end or integrates alongside yours to make Venture Clienting a true capability rather than a one-off effort. By connecting startup collaboration with corporate venture capital strategies, we help turn validated pilots into smarter investment opportunities, making startups an agile and efficient extension of your innovation team.

Strategy & Program Design

Build the future with innovation strategies, portfolio design, and programmatic approaches tailored to your organization’s needs.

ID8’s Innovation Strategy & Program Design service was the foundation of our firm and remains central to our approach. Born from our founders’ experiences in venture capital and entrepreneurship, this service helps corporations bring entrepreneurial rigor and clarity to innovation efforts that too often become fragmented and unfocused. We partner with clients to define strategic opportunity areas, establish governance models, and create practical, systematized programs that turn innovation into a persistent capability. Our work balances structure with entrepreneurial agility, ensuring ideas are tested, validated, and prioritized based on market realities and business impact. Beyond frameworks, we focus on measurable outcomes and continuous learning to help innovation leaders demonstrate value and build lasting organizational support. For many clients, this is where our partnership begins and where real transformation takes hold.

AI Innovation

Create a unique AI strategy for innovation research, opportunity mapping, and more.

Artificial intelligence presents enormous potential, but for many innovation teams, the real challenge lies in applying it with purpose and impact. ID8 helps organizations move beyond disconnected experiments by developing clear AI strategies aligned to business priorities. Drawing on our hands-on experience building and implementing AI solutions across research, product development, and operations, we guide clients from opportunity definition through to real-world application. Our collaborative approach identifies where AI can create the greatest leverage, then brings solutions to life through rapid prototyping, custom model development, and seamless integration into daily work. Focused on practical use and measurable outcomes, we ensure AI enhances decision-making and drives innovation without becoming another isolated technology initiative.

Corporate Venture Capital

From setting strategy to supporting deal flow, we help design and implement successful CVC initiatives.

Corporate Venture Capital remains essential for accessing external innovation, yet without clear alignment to business priorities, it can become disconnected from enterprise impact. ID8 helps companies build and refine CVC programs that deliver both strategic and financial value. We work closely with clients to define focused investment theses, establish governance and portfolio strategies, and ensure that CVC efforts are closely linked to business unit needs. By integrating CVC with other innovation capabilities such as venture clienting and incubation, we create tighter feedback loops that make investments more actionable and valuable. With our support, CVC becomes more than a financial instrument—it becomes a catalyst for long-term growth and market advantage.