We deliver growth through open innovation.

Venture2 helps leading companies and entrepreneurs achieve their business goals through open innovation. Our 360º approach provides unique value by bridging the gap between large companies seeking innovation and the entrepreneurs who create it. We're proven executives and entrepreneurs with a passion for open innovation -- we focus on delivering results to drive profitable business growth.

For leading companies: We can help you realize the potential of open innovation, by finding and exploiting the intersections between unmet needs, enabling technologies and marketplace opportunities. Beyond connecting you with external innovators, we provide business planning, marketing and management support to jumpstart new business ventures. (Learn more...)

For entrepreneurs and technology firms: We're building a unique relationship-based network of the world's best innovators for connection and collaboration with leading companies. In select cases, we partner to license or sell innovations to leading companies. (Learn more...)

Quick Links:

Mike Docherty's innovation weblog, innovation.net

Download one-page overview of Venture2, V2 Overview

What's New:

Find out more about Innovation Speed Dating

02/24-25/09: Mike Docherty of Venture2 will be speaking about Leveraging the Power of Partners for Growth at the Kids Today conference in San Antonio, Texas (conference info)

02/11/09: In an on-line article titled Find Your Perfect (Business) Match Entrepreneur.com featured several quotes from Venture2 President Michael Docherty about building successful businesses through partnering (read the article)

11/25-26/08: Venture2 and Opteam (a leading consulting firm in France)announce seminar on Open Innovation in Paris (Read more)

10/30/08: Mike Docherty of Venture2 will be speaking about Open Innovation as part of an executive panel at Ocean Tomo's Fall I/P Auction in Chicago (See program)

10/1/08: Fortune Small Business Magazine features Venture2 in an article called Speed-Dating for Business: Hopeful startups seek that magic spark. (Read the article)