Initiatives for Business
Driving innovation for corporate success
What is Business RAPTOR?
Business RAPTOR (Rapid Applications for Transport) is the venture client program of EIT Urban Mobility designed to address challenges faced by companies in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
RAPTOR brings the most innovative tech solutions to corporate challenges and fosters collaboration between corporations and startups, through agile testing, minimising financial and operational risks.
Why join business Raptor?
CONNECT WITH INNOVATIVE STARTUPS
TEST THE BEST SOLUTIONS BEFORE INVESTING
De-risk the innovation process through agile pilot testing and validate ideas with our experienced team before scaling up.
BECOME AN INNOVATION LEADER
Access solutions before competitors, gaining strategic insights and leveraging on customised offering from early innovators.
Why participate as a startup/SME?
Validate your product/service with leading companies
Access to industry knowledge and expertise
Get visibility and scale-up your business
How does it work?
Our venture client approach to meet, test and scale-up innovations
We perform tailored scouting calls for innovative solutions and select together those with the highest potential.
Validate the selected solution through an agile pilot, helping to de-risk the innovation process.
Leverage EIT Urban Mobility augmented capabilities for new business growth: access to funding; co-investments; commercial partnerships (B2B; B2G)
For more information about Business RAPTOR
Why partner with EIT Urban Mobility?
ACCESS TO START-UPS
NETWORK OF PARTNERS
LEADING INNOVATION
AGILE
innovation approach
Testimonials
‘The Childfy app is highly valued as a solution to the traffic congestion experienced at school entrances and exits. The app was proposed by the Municipality of Cascais, and its implementation is expected to provide an effective solution to this long-standing problem.’
– Bernardo Correia, Pedagogical Director of the Salesianos de Manique school.
‘RAPTOR could help us find the best teams and solutions across Europe to find solutions to our Resilient and Sustainable Urban Plan challenge’.
-Petra Dzurovčinová, Chief Innovation Officer at the City of Bratislava
Raptor has helped bring out the best in our team on a demanding international project with multiple stakeholders.’
‘Raptor has been the best opportunity to showcase Volvero so far. The active involvement of the EIT UM and relevant institutions like Tour & Taxis made it a success and pivotal moment.‘
‘RAPTOR was an opportunity to experiment the solution and precise the business model and logistics processes’
‘Thanks to RAPTOR we have been able to perform the data collection for the whole municipality and we are now able to scale our solution to bigger cities in Europe.‘
