A home in Shanghai for your innovation team
Startup Connects is a paid, 12-month program combining a Shanghai base for your team, a dedicated exhibition for your company and curated engagement with relevant startups. Use our office when you need it, make your technologies visible and meet founders around the priorities you define.
A presence. A showcase. A connection.
A Shanghai base, when you need it
Your Open Innovation staff can use our Yangpu riverfront office occasionally throughout the year when needed, for example to meet startups visiting CM. Access is arranged with our team and subject to availability.
A dedicated showcase for your company
Present your brand, technologies, products and collaboration priorities in a dedicated exhibition area in our office. Your company stays visible to visiting founders, investors and corporate partners throughout the program. We help coordinate the installation of your display.
Two complete Open Innovation programs
Two complete 12-week Open Innovation programs each year, each culminating in a workshop. We define your challenge, scout and evaluate relevant technologies, curate founders, moderate the workshop and support partnership follow-up. The workshop takes place on a specific day within each program.
Connections informed by science and industry
Our team’s scientific background, 16 years on the ground and experience evaluating more than 8,000 startups help us understand emerging technologies and their industrial applications. We use that expertise to bring relevant founders into conversation with your team.
See how CM builds industrial partnerships ↗Meet in our Shanghai innovation community
Our 1,700 m² space occupies the entire 18th floor on the Yangpu riverfront, with meeting and workshop rooms, shared lounges and an event space for up to 100 guests.
Built around your priorities
- A 12-month term, renewable by mutual agreement
- You define the focus areas; we curate the startups
- Start any time; events scheduled around your calendar
- Part of the wider CMVC platform, including our portfolio companies and Innovation China, organized by the Shanghai Strategic Emerging Industries Foundation since 2015, with spring and autumn editions in recent years
Discuss your innovation priorities
Tell us which technologies and applications matter to your company, how your team would use the space and what you would like to showcase. We will discuss a program for your first year.
Talk to us about Startup Connects ↗Startup Connects is delivered by CM Advisory, an affiliate of CM Venture Capital, and provides an ongoing presence in our innovation community. The package includes two complete 12-week Open Innovation programs, year-round occasional office access for your Open Innovation staff and a year-round corporate brand/product exhibition. Additional work beyond these inclusions is scoped separately. See the complete 12-week program.