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Open innovation beyond technology

Startups bring new business models, faster ways of working and fresh perspectives on value. By combining that with ABB’s industrial expertise, SynerLeap surfaces opportunities that might otherwise be overlooked.

Why we exist

Innovation today moves faster than ever. New technologies emerge overnight. Markets shift rapidly. Customer expectations evolve continuously.

Our mission is simple: help ABB innovate with startup speed and mindset while leveraging the scale, expertise, and global reach of one of the world’s leading technology companies.

We know ABB’s divisions well enough to recognise a real problem, and the startup landscape well enough to find the companies that could solve it.

Over the years, SynerLeap has facilitated hundreds of startup engagements across ABB’s businesses, resulting in pilots, commercial partnerships, strategic investments, acquisitions, and new opportunities for ABB, its customers and its innovation partners.

A bridge between ABB and the innovation ecosystem

For startups and scaleups, we provide a pathway into ABB. Through structured programs, targeted scouting and startup engagement, we help identify the most relevant innovations – connecting you straight to real industrial opportunities.

For ecosystem partners such as venture capital firms to universities and incubators, SynerLeap is a channel to connect with real industrial opportunities and collaborate with one of the world’s largest industrial technology companies.

For ABB businesses across electrification, motion and automation, we provide access to emerging technologies, new business models and entrepreneurial thinking that accelerate growth and competitiveness.