Anticipate change.
Navigate what’s next.
Silicon Foundry is an innovation advisory firm that catalyzes opportunities and accelerates change to push the frontier of what’s possible.
Kearney, a leading global management consulting firm announces the acquisition of Silicon Foundry
Anticipate change.
Navigate what's next.
Silicon Foundry is an innovation advisory firm that catalyzes opportunities and accelerates change to push the frontier of what’s possible.
Expanding our network and capabilities to further support the global innovation ecosystem
Corporate leadership teams increasingly express interest in tapping into the innovation ecosystem for strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions.
Kearney and Silicon Foundry share a common goal of helping clients evolve their business models in order to improve business agility and increase their ability to innovate. To achieve this, we focus on helping corporations navigate new technologies, market shifts, and opportunities to engage with the global innovation ecosystem.
As a Kearney company, Silicon Foundry has a global reach across an extensive range of business sectors, as well as access to deep functional and industry expertise. The range of knowledge allows us to guide clients in anticipating and responding to the uncertainty and volatility of the modern business landscape.
Unbiased Partners Focused on Results
We serve as a frontline extension of our Members’ executive teams, providing peripheral vision and delivering highly-targeted connectivity, deal flow and experiences to drive outcomes ranging from strategic partnerships to investments and M&A.
Our expert team is deeply embedded in Silicon Valley and beyond. We leverage our unique access, collective network (not a database) and the same intensive process that venture capitalists use to evaluate deals to provide real-time and contextual intelligence that helps Members identify and capitalize on the most relevant and impactful opportunities.
Unbiased Partners Focused on Results
We serve as a frontline extension of our Members’ executive teams, providing peripheral vision and delivering highly-targeted connectivity, deal flow and experiences to drive outcomes ranging from strategic partnerships to investments and M&A.
Our expert team is deeply embedded in Silicon Valley and beyond. We leverage our unique access, collective network (not a database) and the same intensive process that venture capitalists use to evaluate deals to provide real-time and contextual intelligence that helps Members identify and capitalize on the most relevant and impactful opportunities.
What We Deliver
Everything we do supports our Members to identify and engage the most relevant, best-in-class emerging technology companies and achieve their desired outcomes.
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strategic partnerships
corporate venture investments
new venture co‑creation
targeted acquisition
Connect in Context
Our deep global network gives us unique access to critical signals, frontline intelligence and differentiated deal flow. We leverage our authentic relationships to accelerate and amplify our Members’ efforts to build strategic connectivity with and access to the stakeholders that matter most in the context of their business.
Connect in Context
Our deep global network gives us unique access to critical signals, frontline intelligence and differentiated deal flow. We leverage our authentic relationships to accelerate and amplify our Members’ efforts to build strategic connectivity with and access to the stakeholders that matter most in the context of their business.
Connect in Context
Our deep global network gives us unique access to critical signals, frontline intelligence and differentiated deal flow. We leverage our authentic relationships to accelerate and amplify our Members’ efforts to build strategic connectivity with and access to the stakeholders that matter most in the context of their business.
At no cost, we help you identify and build meaningful relationships with C-suite decision makers – at the right time and level – to unlock impactful customer, partnership, investment or exit opportunities.
We help you accelerate your portfolio companies’ digital transformations and global business development efforts. For firms, we bring an informational edge and unique lense to deal diligence and expand your network of F500 corporate decision makers, strategic investors and acquirers.
We serve as trusted embedded advisors and thought partners, providing unique insights, strategic deal flow and actionable connectivity to key players across the landscape.
Who We Engage
While our Members consist largely of corporates, and our work is focused on supporting them and their innovation activities day to day, the network of who we engage with and support reaches much further. We build bridges between leading corporations, startups, investors, and industry advisors by connecting the dots and delivering highly-targeted introductions and private bespoke experiences. These opportunities offer bi-directional value to the players across our community by bringing together visionary people who are creating new technologies, platforms or paradigms of thought that will fundamentally change the way we live, work and play.
For Corporates
We act as trusted and embedded day-to-day advisors as you navigate the technology ecosystem, providing unique insights, strategic deal flow and connectivity to the key players across the landscape.
For Entrepreneurs
At no cost, we support you in identifying and building meaningful relationships with C-suite decision makers—at the right times and level—for impactful customer, partnership, investment or exit opportunities.
For Investors
We expand your network reach of relevant corporate decision makers and strategic investors, bringing value to your portfolio companies (all free of charge) by surfacing and accelerating their global business development efforts.
For Advisors
We align and collaborate with other trusted advisory partners to Global 2000 companies looking to support strategic agendas and tap the power of the external innovation universe and solutions from emerging companies.
In Good Company
Our Members include a diverse set of the world’s leading corporations across a wide range of industries, from entertainment to retail, telecom to transportation, oil & gas to mining, chemicals to cosmetics, and economic development organizations. Below is a representative view and cross-section of our Member community over time.
Our Home is Your Home
Our San Francisco co-working hub serves as our Members’ home—on a full or part-time basis—in the heart of Silicon Valley. The Hub is the physical backdrop for our dynamic community of senior corporate executives. It is engineered to encourage the collision of people and ideas through Member-to-Member collaboration and unique programming that brings them together with other key players across the ecosystem. Complementing our Silicon Valley headquarters “across the pond,” our satellite office in Dubai, UAE serves as our home base for the MENA region, supporting the development of startups, JVs, and partnerships globally, and in alignment with our strategic partnership with the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
Our Home is Your Home
Our San Francisco co-working hub serves as our Members’ home—on a full or part-time basis—in the heart of Silicon Valley. The Hub is the physical backdrop for our dynamic community of senior corporate executives. It is engineered to encourage the collision of people and ideas through Member-to-Member collaboration and unique programming that brings them together with other key players across the ecosystem. Complementing our Silicon Valley headquarters “across the pond,” our satellite office in Dubai, UAE serves as our home base for the MENA region, supporting the development of startups, JVs, and partnerships globally, and in alignment with our strategic partnership with the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
“Silicon Foundry helps us navigate the noise across the Valley by providing targeted market intelligence and trend analyses, startup-specific insights, collaboration support, and a stream of impactful, high-level introductions for our senior executives.”
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Let’s Work Together
Our Members rely on us to source contextual intelligence, make powerful introductions, and surface strategic opportunities.
Interested in working together? Get in touch and learn more about our offerings.
