Agorize

Agorize designs online communities that help organizations create, host, broadcast, and manage innovation challenges. It offers Studyka, a student challenges platform that allows organizations to access a community of international students, communicate their initiatives, and identify innovative ideas. Agorize also offers Hackateam, a platform for online hackathons that enables organizations to connect with IT profiles; and access its network of partners, associate their companies with innovative startups, and meet the talented people. Moreover, the company offers UpWeStart platform that allows organizations to identify and select startups through business challenges; communicate their initiatives to startups; and build up their corporate communication strategies. Agorize has been collaborating with well-known companies such as Google, Microsoft, Bank of America, Uber, Paypal, Great Place to Work, HP, Orange, Philips, Allianz, AXA, Publicis, Unibail-Rodamco, Vinci, Engie, and Ericsson. It relies on open innovation and crowdsourcing to help companies connect with over 5 million innovators. Further, it offers Agorize platform that helps organizations launch customized challenges and engage employees, customers, partners, and key communities for the development of their businesses. Charles Thou and Mathieu Toulemonde founded Agorize in 2011, with its headquarters in Paris in France and branches in San Francisco in the United States, Stuttgart in Germany, Quarry Bay in Hong Kong, and Montreal in Canada.

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