Partners
We’re always on the lookout for cutting-edge startups who want to be connected to the knowledge and experience offered through Saint-Gobain’s family of companies. Here are some companies we’ve helped.
Unity Homes
Unity Homes builds high-performance homes throughout the Northeast. By precisely manufacturing building components in the controlled conditions of a shop and then assembling them rapidly on site, Unity is able to provide its clients with predictable quality, schedules, and costs. The resulting homes are comfortable, healthy, and energy efficient, with heating and cooling costs that are consistently low.
unityhomes.com
Sweeten
Sweeten operates a platform that connects home- and small business owners who have renovation needs with architects, interior designers and general contractors.
sweeten.comIncubators & Accelerators
Our experienced network of incubators and accelerators provides startups with the resources they need to scale their businesses and achieve their goals.
Greentown Labs
As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, Greentown Labs brings together startups, corporates, investors, policymakers, and many others with a focus on scaling climate solutions.
Greentown Labs is home to more than 100 startups and has supported nearly 300 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011.
greentownlabs.comThis year, we have signed a second partnership for their new location in Houston, Texas.
Cubo
Cubo Itaú - the most relevant tech entrepreneurship hub in Latin America - was founded by Itaú Unibanco in partnership with Redpoint eVentures. Our goal, since 2015, is to connect in one place entrepreneurs, large corporations, investors and universities to discuss about technology, innovation, new business models, different ways of working and challenging the status quo, collaborating to building up a better world.
cubo.network
Impulse Lab
Impulse Labs is an ecosystem of startups and decision makers dedicated to the construction and real estate industries where entrepreneurs and corporations alike disrupt the way we design, construct and maintain the built environment.
impulse-labs.fr/en
Tus-Holdings
Tus-Holdings is a large integrated enterprise responsible for developing, constructing, operating and managing TusPark. As the flagship product of Tus-Holdings, TusPark (Beijing) is currently the largest single university science park in the world with a building area of 770,000 square meters and more than 1,500 enterprises.
With more than two decades of development, Tus-Holdings has accumulated a wealth of experience in the development and operation of university science parks and established a high-caliber management team, actively promoting the organic interaction between innovative resources and the regional economy. It has successfully built up a nationwide innovation system with more than 300 incubators, science parks and science cities as the carrier, and its radial network covers more than 50 cities and regions.
en.tusholdings.com
Caohejing Hi-Tech Park
As one of China’s biggest business incubator, Shanghai Caohejing Hi-Tech Park Innovation Center has committed itself to cultivating and supporting technology-intensive enterprises and promoting commercialization, industrialization, and internationalization of scientific and technological achievements. The Innovation Center has been in operation for over 10 years. More than 430 technology-intensive enterprises specializing in IT, biotechnology, new materials, or OPTO-Mechatronics have graduated from the Innovation Center with a success rate amounts to 91.7%.
caohejingibi.com/en-us
RWTH
The RWTH Aachen University is a prestigious engineer school in Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany with a dedicated excellent startup centre that also partners with Saint-Gobain. The team of RWTH Innovation is the link between start-ups, university and industry partners.
Learn more about the team of RWTH InnovationFunds
Through our relationships with established venture capital partners, we’re able to connect startups with the financial support they need to drive their businesses to market.
ETF Partners
ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations and family offices. ETF Partners creates value by investing in technology companies that make a difference – they call it “sustainability through innovation.”
etfpartners.capital
Navitas Capital
Navitas Capital is a venture capital firm with a unique focus on investing in technology for the built environment whose mission is to identify, invest in and help build the next generation of defining companies in its space.
navitascap.com
Phoenix Venture Partners
Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP) is the leading venture capital firm that invests in and partners with entrepreneurs to commercialize breakthrough materials science innovations. PVP’s team has a track record of founding, building and investing in successful materials science startups. The firm has two funds under management and has a unique investment strategy that is flexible and predicated on assisting entrepreneurs with customer and supply chain partnerships, business development as well as strategic and operational support. PVP collaborates with a select set of forward-looking global corporations on business development and innovation interests. PVP is based in Silicon Valley with satellite offices in Singapore and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
phoenix-vp.com