Making public procurement accessible to startups.
Online Tool + Company Spinoff
6 Weeks | Szczecin
Finding the right business opportunity for an urban tech business can be challenging and time-consuming. This is why we created CityOpps: a search platform and tender management software for public and private business opportunities in smart cities.
Context
Finding the right opportunity for a startup or SMEs can be demanding - especially with limited time and resources. There are many challenges to overcome such as regular scanning of hundreds of right opportunity sources among cities, corporations or business incubators, in different languages and often without even knowing where to look for.
Our Role
We’ve built CityOpps in close partnership with the Polish software studio, Teonite. Our partner focused on technological development while we led the product management, business development and fundraising efforts.
Results
CityOpps is a time-saving, intuitive search and management tool for startups and SMEs. We use our long-standing industry expertise, an international network of scouts and automated processes to curate the best content and separate the signal from the noise. Being aware of the time individuals spend focusing on finding the right business opportunities, we wanted to stress the importance of this factor even more.
500+ relevant opportunities
published within the first 6 months.
20+ urban topics
covered in our filters.
25+ countries
covered on our platform.
About the platform
CityOpps
We built the most comprehensive database by scanning hundreds of sources every day, including tender portals like the EU's TED platform, awards, public grants and challenges by cities, corporates and incubators or accelerators. After this, our team of curators hand-picks the most relevant ones for startups and SMEs.
Cities of the Future - Flying cars or improved public procurement?
Streaming from Teonite’s headquarter in Szczecin we discussed the importance of improved public procurement for the city of the future.