About us

Data-driven tools that
enhance innovation

Our goal is to remove the barriers between incubators, accelerators,
investors, corporations, and other stakeholders to bolster the
growth of the global innovation ecosystem.

Our mission is to provide data-driven tools
that nurture innovation around the world

Global Innovation Studios (GISxStudios) is designed for business incubators, accelerators, and corporate
innovation teams as a digital portal of tools offering opportunities to connect, learn, benchmark performance,
and recognize excellence among themselves and peer programs.
Today’s startups are addressing tomorrow’s global challenges.

GISxStudios offers data-driven tools
to foster growth and success

Incubator

Address today’s challenging innovation
ecosystem by networking with peers,
responding to corporate calls, and learning best
practices along with fresh ideas.

Accelerator

Ready for the next opportunity or need to share
your own? GISxStudios is a concentrated
audience of like-minded organizations ready to
interact, share, and learn.

Corporate innovation teams

Guided crowdsourcing for a more impactful, less
labor-intensive way to connect with startups,
business incubators, business accelerators, and
entire ecosystems in one source.
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Our core values

The future of innovation starts with us

Cultivate collaboration

A great team is built from a strong community not competition. At
GISxStudios, we encourage users to share their successes, opportunities,
challenges, and good news.

Break habits

We challenge “the way things have always been” to make way for innovative
ideas that change the heart and soul global innovation ecosystem; the
programs providing startups and scale-ups opportunities for success.

Encourage diversity

A cacophony of voices is key to creating diverse and dynamic solutions. We are
an open-arms solution that welcomes incubators and accelerators of all sizes,
with different missions and goals but the same desire for excellence

Nurture human connection

Despite being a digital portal, our strength lies in the individual users that
share, network, encourage, and critique each other because we are smarter
and stronger together.

FAQ

Global Innovation Studios offers services, tools, education, and information designed to encourage excellence in business incubators and accelerators. Each point of access will be released as a studio, with different access and functions depending on the use case of the stakeholder.
Right now, Global Innovation Studios is welcoming the UBI Global community of business incubators and accelerators. Eventually, with the release of different 'studios' for access, other stakeholders will be invited to collaborate through the portal.
Basic subscriptions are free and include two user accounts on the portal. With a basic account, your organization gains access to: 2 user accounts 

  • One admin-level user and one regular user.


Content library 
  • Including articles, news, and announcements about innovation curated from sources around the world


Peer exploration
  • Look around the portal and discover peer programs near and far for networking and collaboration.


Your news
  • Share your news, announcements, and events with users on the portal.


Forum (coming soon)
  • A place to discuss challenges and opportunities with your peers.


Benchmark and data analytic tool
  • Visualize your benchmark data in whole new ways to gain deeper insights.


Webinars, events, and conferences
  • Learn about informative events on innovation and expand your knowledge base.


Corporate calls for startups
  • Nominate startups for corporate matching opportunities exclusively on the portal.


Subscriptions can be upgraded at any time to the Premium level, where you and your team will experience the portal with enhanced features including: 5 user accounts
  • One admin-level user and four regular users.


  • The ability to add up to 10 users upon request.
Content library
  • Including articles, news, and announcements about innovation curated from sources around the world


  • Exclusive research and insights that aren’t available from any other source.


Peer exploration
  • Look around the portal and discover peer programs near and far for networking and collaboration.


  • Peer review (coming soon)
  • GISxStudios in-portal messaging (coming soon)


Your news
  • Share your news, announcements, and events with users on the portal.


  • Customized alerts to peers on the portal
Forum (coming soon)
  • A place to discuss challenges and opportunities with your peers.


Benchmark and data analysis tools
  • Ever wonder how your performance compares year-over-year or how you stack up to the world’s number one? This is where you can find out!


  • Historic performance 
  • Extra filters
  • Additional data segments


Webinars, events, and conferences
  • Learn about informative events on innovation and expand your knowledge base.


  • Discounts on tickets to paid events


Corporate calls for startups
  • Publish your own partner’s call(s) and opportunities for startups and expand your value proposition globally!

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No way! UBI Global is a community, Global Innovation Studios is a digital portal. Think of it this way; you belong to the community, but the portal belongs to you! Right here is where you will (eventually, in some cases) share with peers, learn best practices, find research documents, watch videos, take part in webinars, collaborate with corporate innovation teams, benchmark yourself, and the list goes on. UBI Global will continue to provide the community, with an impactful research framework and benchmark, providing rankings and recognition of your continued excellence.

UBI Global wanted to add another layer to the benefits it offers business incubators and accelerators, and the best way to do that was to spin off a digital portal that would revolve around the needs of our members but also be inclusive of the ecosystem. GISxStudios will eventually invite corporations, governments, and other stakeholders to be part of the Studios with the goal of connecting them to our members. While these groups will create opportunities for our members, they themselves are not considered members of the UBI Global community, which continues to be focused only on incubators and accelerators.

The GISxStudios basic subscription is free and it includes a lot of features and functions, don't worry! Pro and Premium members of UBI Global have access to the Premium GISxStudios subscription, which means you get more users on the portal and more features as they are released. Basic subscribers can upgrade at any time for a monthly fee!

Populating your startup data on the Global Innovation Studios platform feeds the future of the platform with data it needs to serve you valuable innovation intelligence including trend spotting, success stories, insights, and more. Your startup data completes a snapshot of your program that your peers will use to find and engage with you via the Peer Exploration feature right here in GISxStudios. Eventually, your startup data will also be ready for you to quickly and easily engage with corporate partners. Also, one of the future goals of the GISxStudios is to provide you with on-demand performance metrics. To do all that and scale up the portal so it becomes more and more useful to you, the GISxStudios needs your data! GISxStudios complies with GDPR and keeps your data safe and protected.

Let us be very clear that no access to your startup data will happen without your knowledge and permission ahead of time. UBI Global, and thereby GISxStudios is focused on business incubators and accelerators and their importance in the global innovation ecosystem. Providing your startup data on the portal means that we are better able to provide you with the tools you need to help your startups grow!  

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