Dive Brief:
- Agorize, a French startup company, offers a service that allows companies to collect data on new ideas and ventures with an idea crowdsourcing approach that includes university students.
- The company has created communities — of students, engineers, and startup businesses — that will participate in its “innovation challenges” to provide data to corporate clients.
- Tech Crunch describes Agorize as the “future of job recruitment and a sort of social marketing survey platform,” with more than 2,000 universities globally participating in its innovation challenges.
Dive Insight:
The advantage for students participating in the Agorize challenges is that they may end up with a job, plus they get the opportunity to network with other participants and businesses, as well as gain experience. Some of the companies that work with Agorize may use the challenges exclusively as a hiring tool. Among them: Google, Microsoft, and Bank of America. Agorize has raised $2.6 million so far, from Iris Capital and Capnamic Ventures.
