FIND HIDDEN POTENTIAL GEMS
① Surface the high-potential startups that are too early, too niche, or too non-obvious for keyword search and AI tools to catch. ② Reach them before anyone else does. ③ Turn under-the-radar discovery into a first-mover advantage, not a lucky find.
If a startup is easy to find, your competitors have already found it. The ones that matter are the ones nobody else has surfaced yet.
The same well-known names show up in every search.
Keyword tools miss anything that doesn't self-describe in your terms.
The best players are too early or too niche for the big databases.
Breakthroughs hide in adjacencies nobody thinks to search.
By the time a gem is obvious, you are no longer the first to call.
Since 2019, Novable has indexed what startups actually do, their real activity, technology trajectory, and team movements, not just what they have raised or how they tag themselves. That proprietary activity layer is why we surface players that funding-driven databases never index.
DeepMatching™ finds candidates through network science and signal triangulation, not taxonomy matching. It uncovers the non-obvious players: the startup solving your problem from an adjacent field, the team too early to have a category, the company a keyword would never reach.
Under-the-radar is worthless if it is also unready. Every candidate we surface is assessed for enterprise readiness and reviewed by an analyst, so a hidden gem is one you can actually engage, not just a name nobody else happened to know.
Bring leadership candidates nobody else has surfaced, and the first-mover advantage that comes with them. Turn scouting from a list of the obvious into a genuine edge.
Reach the deep-tech players hiding in niche fields and adjacent disciplines, the ones manual research and databases consistently miss. Find the technical capability before it has a category, and before your competitors do.
Fill your cohort with standout startups that never found your application form. Differentiate your program on the quality of who you discover, not just who applies.
Innovation, R&D and program leaders across energy, industry, FMCG and technology rely on Novable to find the players no one else can.
NOVABLE x VERBUND X
VERBUND X, the innovation arm of Austria's leading energy company, faced challenges with traditional scouting methods that couldn't keep pace with the rapidly evolving energy landscape. By partnering with Novable, they transformed their startup discovery and evaluation process using AI-powered capabilities.
The result: €10,000 cost savings per scouting campaign, 7.5x reduction in external scouting costs, and a strategic investment emerging directly from the collaboration.
