Startups engagement

ABB is actively seeking to collaborate with startups and scaleups, providing them access to R&D, product management expertise and a worldwide customer network. As partners in the dynamic startup ecosystem, ABB can deliver innovations faster to the market.

Startup engagement is becoming critical for industry leaders like ABB make the energy and digital transformations affordable, effective and accessible.

It is only by collaborating with some of the brightest startups in the world that we will accelerate solutions development to solve the world’s energy and climate challenges.

ABB Technology Ventures (ATV)

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Strategic venture capital for breakthrough industrial technology startups

SynerLeap

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Connecting the top industrial startups with the best of ABB

Startup Challenge

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Venture Clienting Challenges

Success stories

Hear from past champions of the ABB Startup Challenge, ABB's startup flagship competition, and learn how partnering with ABB fueled their growth.

Latest news

ABB invests in GridBeyond

ABB announced a minority investment in GridBeyond, a leading technology player providing energy management solutions based on artificial intelligence and data science that will enable our customers to optimize distributed energy resources and industrial loads.

ABB acquires Sevensense

ABB announced that it has acquired Swiss start-up Sevensense, a leading provider of AI-enabled 3D vision navigation technology for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).

ABB invests in Lumin to accelerate the development of accessible home energy management solutions

In its continual efforts to enhance customer experience, ABB is investing in Lumin, the US-based pioneer and leading provider of responsive energy management solutions, to bring new smart and sustainable technologies to homes in North America.

ABB invests in strategic partnership with clean energy start-up to offer end-to-end wind energy portfolio

ABB Motion and WindESCo, have signed a strategic partnership, where ABB has acquired a minority stake in the company through its venture capital unit, ABB Technology Ventures (ATV). US-based WindESCo is the leading analytics software provider for improving the performance and reliability of wind turbines.

ABB invests in edge-to-cloud platform innovator Pratexo

ABB is investing in a strategic partnership with Pratexo, an edge-to-cloud acceleration platform company.

ABB invests in Direct Current microgrid start-up Direct Energy Partners to accelerate energy transformation

ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Direct Energy Partners (DEP), a start-up using digital technology to accelerate adoption of Direct Current (DC) microgrids.

ABB invests in OKTO GRID to digitalize the energy grid and extend life of key components