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Productboard is the agentic product system for modern product teams. It features Productboard Spark, a built-in agent that knows your product and customers from day one. As your product agent, Spark allows you to interact with your product data and documents conversationally. It's also specifically designed to power core product workflows, like surfacing customer needs and new opportunities, turning ideas into delivery-ready specs, and measuring the impact of what you ship. Over 6,000 companies, including Zoom, Autodesk, and Salesforce, use Productboard to gain clarity on the right products and features to build next. With offices in Prague and San Francisco, Productboard is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, and Credo Ventures.

We help organizations centralize their innovation capability, bringing together workflows, data, and talent into a connected, intelligent, and dynamic ecosystem. For over 11 years, we’ve delivered repeatable, measurable, and scalable impact, empowering organizations to drive sustainable innovation with confidence. Our AI-enabled Innovation Ecosystem Platform integrates Market Intelligence, Innovation Management, Ecosystem Management solutions, and Innocentive, our global community of problem solvers. At the core of what we do is connecting technology and people to drive collaboration, accelerate problem-solving, and set companies up for long-term innovation success. Trusted by organizations like NASA, the UK Ministry of Defence, NICE, and Bayer CropScience.

HYPE Innovation: The Enterprise Platform for Innovation and Transformation Enterprises don’t struggle with a lack of ideas. They struggle to identify which opportunities matter, where to invest, and how to turn them into measurable business outcomes. For 25 years, the world’s leading organizations have relied on HYPE to bring structure, intelligence, and speed to innovation — connecting insights, ideas, projects, technologies, and partners in one enterprise platform. Predictive Intelligence: Not every idea deserves investment. HYPE uses AI and connected innovation data to identify similarities and redundancies, uncover hidden relationships, learn from past outcomes, and surface the opportunities with the greatest potential — helping teams make better decisions and de-risk innovation investments. Automated Lifecycle Velocity: Moving from opportunity to impact shouldn’t require layers of manual administration. HYPE automates workflows across ideation, R&D, cost optimization, employee engagement, transformation, and more — helping enterprise teams move faster while maintaining the governance they need. Connected Innovation Ecosystem: Innovation cannot live in a silo. HYPE connects ideas, projects, trends, technologies, partners, and enterprise data while integrating with your existing AI, BI, collaboration, and IT ecosystem. The result is one connected system for innovation across the enterprise. Defensible Business Outcomes: Innovation needs to prove its value. HYPE connects innovation activity to measurable business outcomes, giving leaders visibility into portfolio performance, efficiency gains, cost reductions, strategic alignment, and ROI — from the first signal to realized impact.