What Yumana does

Yumana is a Paris-based B2B SaaS vendor that provides an AI-enhanced innovation management platform for large enterprises. Its eight-module product covers Ideation Hub, Collaboration Space, Evaluation Engine, Project Pipeline, Ecosystem Portfolio, Reports & Analytics, AI Insights, and Community Activation, supporting eleven use cases that span innovation portfolio management, innovation challenges, intrapreneurship programs, partner ecosystem management, startup scouting, open innovation, continuous improvement, community engagement, diversity and inclusion activation, HR best-practice sharing, and environmental performance. Multiple specialized AI agents (Darwin, Matchmaker, Magic Team Builder, Portfolio Watch, Next Best Move, Intelligent Search, Exploratory Foresight, Content Recommendation) provide predictive scoring, recommendation, anomaly detection, and process automation across the platform.

The platform is hosted on Microsoft Azure (West Europe regions: France and Netherlands) and is sold through an enterprise field-sales motion with expert-led diagnostic calls and tailored demonstrations; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, consistent with subscription recurring-revenue SaaS. Yumana integrates with Novable for AI-powered startup scouting and maintains a content engine that includes the "Inno: Off the Record" podcast hosted by CEO Céline Degreef, the biennial Intrapreneurship Barometer report, and multiple whitepapers.

Named customers include Bouygues Telecom, VINCI Group, L'Oréal, GRDF, Safran, Somfy, Michelin, and APEC, spanning telecommunications, construction, cosmetics, energy distribution, aerospace, manufacturing, automotive, and employment services. The company operates as YUMANA SAS, is privately held and bootstrapped (no external funding rounds disclosed), and has 11-50 employees with its registered office at 44 rue du Louvre, Paris.

Name

Yumana

Legal name

YUMANA SAS

Website

https://yumana.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Yumana is a Paris-based AI-enhanced SaaS platform that helps large enterprises manage innovation portfolios, scout startups, and engage employees through structured workflows and AI agents. It serves innovation, corporate venturing, operations, and HR teams across major European corporations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Innovation Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Work Management & Collaborative Workflow Platforms (HDAEAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

iBPMS (Intelligent BPM Suites) & Process Automation Suites (HDAEAHAG), End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• Innovation management software
• Enterprise SaaS platform
• AI ideation tools
• Partner ecosystem management
• Corporate venturing platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS model for innovation management platform with AI-enhanced capabilities. The platform serves enterprise customers with dedicated features for innovation teams, corporate venturing, operations, and HR functions. Pricing appears quote-based with expert-guided sales process indicating enterprise positioning.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Yumana provides an AI-enhanced SaaS innovation management platform that unifies eight modular capabilities — Ideation Hub, Collaboration Space, Evaluation Engine, Project Pipeline, Ecosystem Portfolio, Reports & Analytics, AI Insights, and Community Activation — to support the full innovation lifecycle from ideation through execution. The platform serves enterprise innovation, corporate venturing, operations, and HR teams with configurable workflows, AI-powered scoring and matching, partner/startup ecosystem management, and gamified community engagement. It is sold via a consultative enterprise sales motion on a quote-based subscription model.

Product overview

Yumana is a modular SaaS platform for innovation and partner ecosystem management, built around a unified core platform with eight integrated modules: Ideation Hub, Collaboration Space, Evaluation Engine, Project Pipeline, Ecosystem Portfolio, Reports & Analytics, AI Insights, and Community Activation. These modules work together to support the full innovation lifecycle from ideation through execution, covering 11 mission-critical use cases including Innovation Portfolio Management, Innovation Challenge, Intrapreneurship, Partner Ecosystem Management, Startup Scouting, Open Innovation Challenge, Community Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion Activation, HR Best Practice Sharing, Continuous Improvement, and Environmental Performance. The platform is designed for Innovation Teams, Corporate Venturing Teams, Operations Teams, and HR Teams, and features embedded AI agents (adaptive, generative, and predictive) throughout for automation and decision support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ideation Hub

Quantifiable outcome

• 3x increase in engagement
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• NovablecoreTechnology or IntegrationYumana integrates Novable's AI-powered scouting engine to deliver curated, high-fit startup shortlists for the startup scouting use case. This integration enables users to go from brief to shortlist in days, connecting Yumana's ecosystem portfolio management with Novable's AI matching capabilities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Brightidea: Brightidea is an enterprise innovation management SaaS platform offering idea management, challenges, and pipeline workflows — directly competing with Yumana across the same innovation-team buyer segment with comparable module structure.
• HYPE Innovation: HYPE Innovation is a German-headquartered innovation management platform serving enterprise customers with idea management, trend scouting, and community engagement — a direct European peer with overlapping target buyers and product scope.
• IdeaScale: IdeaScale is a long-standing enterprise ideation and innovation management SaaS serving similar buyer personas (innovation leaders, transformation teams) with comparable challenge and pipeline functionality.
• Qmarkets: Qmarkets is an enterprise innovation management software vendor covering idea management, open innovation, and technology scouting — a direct competitor with overlapping mid-market and enterprise customer profiles.
• Itonics: Itonics is a German innovation management platform combining trend scouting, technology intelligence, and idea management — directly comparable in European enterprise positioning and adjacent to Yumana's startup scouting use case.

Broad incumbents

• Planview (Spigit): Planview acquired Spigit, the legacy enterprise innovation management software, and now offers it as part of a broader portfolio management suite — a larger, well-capitalized incumbent with overlapping innovation-team customers but wider product scope.
• Wrike: Wrike is a broader enterprise work management and project collaboration platform — not a direct innovation-management competitor but increasingly encroaching on the same workflow and project-tracking use cases Yumana addresses in its Project Pipeline module.

Emerging players

• InnovationCast: InnovationCast is a smaller innovation management platform with crowdsourcing, idea challenges, and co-creation workflows — overlapping with Yumana's ideation and community modules but at smaller scale and narrower geographic reach.
• KaiNexus: KaiNexus focuses on continuous improvement and operational excellence software — overlapping with Yumana's Operations Team use case (best-practice replication, continuous improvement) and serving a comparable enterprise buyer.

Others

• Novable: Novable is Yumana's strategic technology partner providing the AI-powered startup scouting engine integrated into Yumana's Ecosystem Portfolio module — closely adjacent in capability and customer base, with overlap on the startup-scouting use case.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@YumanaFr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/yumana/posts/?feedView=all
• Xx.com/YumanaGroup

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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