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rready offers an AI-native innovation management platform designed to help organizations systematically capture, evaluate, and scale new ideas. Its modular solutions encompass Idea Management, Innovation Management, and KICKBOX Intrapreneurship, leveraging agentic workflows and artificial intelligence to identify inefficiencies, validate projects with data, and measure return on investment. The platform integrates insights from employee ideation, internal company data, and external market signals, transforming diverse inputs into actionable opportunities.
The company was co-founded by Dave Hengartner (CEO), Ralph Hartmeier (CCO), Reto Wenger (COO), and Vinz Leuenberger (CPO). Their founding insight stemmed from the pervasive challenge many corporations face in translating ambitious innovation goals into tangible results. The team, with prior experience building innovation units for leading IT and telecom providers, established rready to bridge this gap by combining human ingenuity with advanced AI.
rready serves a roster of large enterprise clients across diverse sectors, including notable names such as BMW, TetraPak, and Swisscom. The company's vision is to empower these organizations to evolve into self-optimizing, future-ready entities. By streamlining innovation processes and fostering collaboration, rready aims to accelerate time-to-market for new initiatives, drive efficiency gains, reduce costs, and enhance overall quality.
rready has raised $4.0M across 1 funding round.
rready has raised $4.0M in total across 1 funding round.
rready has raised $4.0M in total across 1 funding round.
rready's investors include Fyrefly VC, ALPANA Ventures, Maximon, Therese Liechtenstein, EquityPitcher Ventures, Roger Wüthrich-Hasenböhler, Verve Ventures.
rready AG is an AI-native enterprise SaaS platform for innovation management, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.[1][3] It provides end-to-end solutions to source, evaluate, prioritize, and implement ideas from employees, combining software, AI agents, expertise, and community to deliver measurable business impact for large organizations.[1][2][4] Serving enterprises like BMW, Tetra Pak, Implenia, and Swisscom across 10+ countries, rready addresses intrapreneurship and operational excellence, with features like idea management, custom workflows, and integrations with Jira, SAP, Salesforce, and more; a yearlong pilot at a $30B+ market cap company generated $8M in cost savings and revenue.[1][2][3][4] Backed by $4M in Series A funding from investors including FYRFLY Venture Partners, Verve Ventures, and Swisscom Ventures, it emphasizes enterprise-grade security (ISO 27001, GDPR), 99.9% uptime, and API-first modularity for scalability.[1][3]
rready emerged as a spin-out from Swisscom, Switzerland's leading telco and IT provider, where the founders built the company's innovation unit and launched the Kickbox intrapreneurship program, which won an award for "Best Corporate Entrepreneurship Program."[3][4] Established in 2021, it transitioned from internal tools to a standalone platform, achieving early profitability while developing AI-native systems and securing spin-out approval.[4] With over a decade of innovation expertise, the team scaled to serve 50+ enterprise customers worldwide, raising $4M in Series A funding to commercialize its AI-powered offerings.[2][3][4] Key milestones include recognition as a TOP Swiss ICT Startup 2022, Prix Strategis semi-finalist, and expansion of Kickbox tools to US companies.[4]
rready rides the wave of AI-driven enterprise innovation, where large organizations seek to harness employee ideas amid talent retention challenges and digital transformation pressures.[1][2] Its timing aligns with surging demand for intrapreneurship tools, as firms like BMW and Tetra Pak prioritize internal ideation to counter external disruption in a post-pandemic economy favoring agile, AI-augmented workflows.[3][4] Market forces like GDPR regulations and hybrid work amplify its value through secure, modular platforms that integrate with legacy systems, positioning rready ahead of competitors like Swae and Ezassi by focusing on end-to-end measurable impact rather than siloed idea collection.[2] It influences the ecosystem by democratizing innovation at scale, fostering employer branding, and enabling ROI-focused programs that blend human creativity with AI orchestration.[1][4]
rready is poised to dominate as the go-to innovation operating system for corporates, leveraging its Swiss precision engineering and global backing to expand AI features like agentic workflows amid rising GenAI adoption.[1][3] Trends like decentralized innovation, real-time analytics, and multi-agent AI will propel growth, potentially doubling its 40+ customer base as enterprises chase quantifiable outcomes in uncertain markets.[2][3] Its influence may evolve from spin-out pioneer to category leader, influencing standards in secure AI-enterprise integration—echoing its origins in transforming Swisscom's internal potential into a scalable, impact-generating force.[4]
rready has raised $4.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $4.0M Series A in November 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2023 | $4M Series A | Fyrefly VC | Alpana Ventures, Maximon, Therese Liechtenstein, EquityPitcher Ventures, Roger Wüthrich Hasenböhler, Verve Ventures | Announced |
