May 15 2025
Startup collaboration within Combient Foundry
Scania is pursuing many roads when it comes to accelerating innovation. One of them is its membership in Combient Foundry, a co-creation platform that connects pioneering startups with leading Nordic industrial companies in an alliance to develop and drive technological breakthroughs.
“Now in its fifth year, Scania’s collaboration with Combient Foundry is already delivering tangible outcomes,” says Jonas Gustafsson, Senior Venture Collaboration Manager at Scania R&D.
“We’ve initiated around 25 pilot projects with startups,” he says. “Several of them have led to new technologies and methods that are now part of how we work at Scania.”
Benefits both for Scania and the startups
The process of matching Scania with a startup through Combient Foundry often begins with an “open innovation challenge,” encouraging startups to respond to a specific technical challenge.
“It’s like a reverse pitch – we present the problem to startups, rather than having them pitch their solutions to us. Another benefit – both for us and the startup – is that we can team up around a shared technical challenge with other member companies within the Combient Foundry alliance,” says Gustafsson. Read more
Source: SCANIA