Innovation agency with roots in the startup ecosystems
Our mission
Up until 15-20 years ago, technology innovation had been the privilege of large corporations and governments, aka the establishment. With exponential technological development, the creation of innovation is now accessible to small companies and startups.
This has created a need for the establishment to explore external innovations on the market if they don’t want to be left behind and to find ways how to cooperate with them in various forms of incubation/acceleration and business development programs.
XO.company has the mission to build bridges and navigate the establishment in this new era of how technology is being innovated.
Our Story
The concept of XO.company was started in 2016 by the founders of Global Startup Awards as evolutional progress due to the demand for more advanced services from the private and public Clients of the competition.
Global Startup Awards was founded in 2012 as a grass root movement to find, recognise and connect founders, investors, ecosystem builders and other startup ecosystem stakeholders for the purpose of making relationships across borders where connections had not existed previously. It is the DNA of XO.company to have a close connection to the heart of the community, which gives our agency a competitive advantage.
(more about Global Startup Awards HERE).
The name: XO.company
The name XO was inspired by two elements that are fundamental for innovation: scientific development and human collaboration. The name is a combination of the two concepts below.
Exoplanets
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System that represents scientific development (info HERE).
XOXO
XOXO is a term used for expressing sincerity, faith, love, or good friendship at the end of a written letter, email or SMS text message Representing human collaboration (info HERE).
Management
The XO.company is managed by the two founders and has a strong team behind, based in Copenhagen and Budapest, as well as a global network of carefully selected experts who are onboarded to specific projects.
