Context 

With over 1 million startups operating in the world, it takes time and expertise to build a robust deal flow. Yet, its quality is the cornerstone of success of Open Innovation, CVC, M&A and Strategy teams.

Aster Fab’s mission was to build for our client a robust startup deal flow from scratch, and then, throughout the last four years, to be in charge of qualified deal sourcing.

Mission

  • Mapping of the topics and technologies of strategic interest to the group
  • Selection of 10 topics to carry out deep dives on throughout the year
  • Technology studies to deepen the group’s knowledge of a given technology and analysis of weak signals: technology analysis, patent analysis, fundraising analysis, competitor benchmark, mapping of the startups populating the space, etc.
  • On-going outbound sourcing on strategic topics
  • Qualification calls with the most promising startups
  • Bi-monthly presentations to the client of qualified startup opportunities

Key figures

10
deep dive studies

conducted throughout the year

2,500
startup

entries in the deal flow

150
qualified startups

presented to the client