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Digital Procurement transformation.
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LABS is your partner for tech scouting and scaling and empowers your organisation to identify and execute collaborative innovation opportunities together with pioneering startups, scaleups and tech innovation experts from DPW.

For enterprises, we help you discover, develop and scale emerging startups, technologies, and their business models and deliver transformative value faster.

For startups and emerging technology, we match your capabilities with the unmet needs of procurement organisations and their stakeholders, accelerating meaningful collaboration and business growth.

Start with the Problem to Solve.
Don’t fix the symptoms.

Go round the roadblocks. Accelerate innovation.

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Partner with the hottest ProcureTech startups and scaleups in your specific business context to solve your challenges.
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Leverage today’s smartest technologies and innovations to accelerate procurement’s and your company’s sustainability performance
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Source innovations for the business and become an ecosystem enabler and integral part of your company’s innovation process.
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WE PLAN
We work with you to build your bespoke innovation program and systematic scouting process.
WE SCOUT
Our 4-week scouting sprint is a deepdive into the high potential tech solutions that deliver on your challenge.
WE PILOT & SCALE
Our 100-day pilots feature pilot-shaping, culture match and continuous coaching and learning. We can facilitate your chosen startup scaling, too.
Over 50 of the World’s largest corporations
are harnessing LABS’s expertise and ecosystem
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Startups across the globe

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LABS REVEALS BRILLIANT-FITTING TECH SOLUTIONS THAT TRADITIONAL ANALYSTS HAVE NOT EVEN HEARD OF
Matthias Gutzmann, Founder DPW

Meet the LABS team

Matthias Gutzmann
Founder
DPW

Matthias Gutzmann

Founder DPW

Matthias Gutzmann is on a mission to disrupt the procurement industry. He founded DPW, the first organisation of its kind to focus on bringing startups into the procurement industry, after he recognised the importance for breaking down the procurement silo and more collaboration in order to harness the potential of new digital technology and more innovation.

Monique Alblas
Consulting Lead
DPW

Monique Alblas

Consulting Lead DPW

Monique was named one of the 10 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain by Insights Success,  and was celebrated as a winner in the “Women in Supply Chain award!”, and is ScoutLab’s consulting lead after a successful career in Philips, Accenture and GEP.

Pieter Paul van Oerle
Open Innovation Expert
DPW

Pieter Paul van Oerle

Open Innovation Expert DPW

Pieter Paul van Oerle is the Founder of nlmtd and Strategy Director for TNW. Based on his experience as leader for Accenture Digital and Accenture Innovation Pieter Paul has developed a passion for matching the right technology solutions to Corporate Innovators, for acceleration of Innovation and digital transformation.

Herman Knevel
Corporate-Startup Collaboration Expert
DPW

Herman Knevel

Corporate-Startup Collaboration Expert DPW

Herman is Innovation Director at nlmtd, and former global open innovation lead ISS A/S. Herman has 15+ years of experience in the outsourcing industry for real estate and facility services, in business and corporate innovation functions. He is the architect of the first Vested outsourcing innovation partnership in Europe.

Jasper Kroese
Program Manager
DPW

Jasper Kroese

Program Manager DPW

As a corporate innovation consultant, Jasper Kroese has been involved in coaching open innovation teams and developing new products for large multinationals such as KLM, DSM, and J&J. On the other side of the table, Jasper also supports startups in developing growth strategies, creating pitch decks, and hypothesis driven testing.

Melvin Streefkerk
Corporate Innovation Expert
DPW

Melvin Streefkerk

Corporate Innovation Expert DPW

Melvin Streefkerk was the former Head of Innovation Factory at KPN where he led a team of innovation coaches, scouts, hackers and hipsters to help KPN build a mindset focussed on execution, fast iterations and experiments, creating a paradigm shift on their corporate mindset.

Elke van den Boom
Innovation Manager
DPW

Elke van den Boom

Innovation Manager DPW

Elke is Innovation Manager helping companies become future proof. She started her career 10 years ago as one of the initial business developers founding a successful e-commerce startup in Asia. She has overall experience in the digital tech environment and is part of our scouting team that discovers and attracts global innovations.

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