Wunderman signs deal with tech start-up incubator

founders factoryWunderman has entered a partnership with Founders Factory – a corporate-backed incubator and accelerator, founded by Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox – to help the firm reach its goal to build and scale 200 new businesses over five years.
The partnership provides Wunderman’s global clients with early access to promising start-ups, a systematic approach for identifying, connecting and partnering with elite entrepreneurial talent and ongoing education for Wunderman staff.
The accelerator and incubator has been backed by six blue-chip investors, who are Founders Factory’s exclusive global partners, L’Oréal, Aviva, EasyJet, China’s CSC Group, Holtzbrinck and Guardian Media Group. These investors work with Founders Factory to identify opportunities for start-ups and ideas for new companies within their respective vertical sectors of beauty, fintech, travel, AI, education and media.
Wunderman will work across all vertical sectors and start-ups, partnering with companies to solve business transformation challenges including: customer experience design, marketing technology and digital innovation for its clients.
Wunderman global CEO Mark Read said: “Growth is our clients’ top priority and that depends on innovation.  Now we can help them innovate, not just in their digital marketing, but by working with Founders Factory’s global ecosystem of promising young start-ups and, in return, help these start-ups build their businesses for the future.”
Founders Factory chief executive Henry Lane Fox added: “Founders Factory was developed to tackle a common problem within big business – how to innovate internally. We are committed to building and scaling over 200 new businesses over the next five years. Wunderman and their clients will not only provide expert marketing advice but also numerous commercial opportunities for our start-ups.”
The Founders Factory portfolio of start-ups, which cover new technologies spanning artificial intelligence, new content creation methodologies, blockchain and ecommerce solutions, will be introduced to the partners and their global networks across every market.

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