innoCentrum

What innoCentrum does

innoCentrum® Sistematik İnovasyon Yönetimi Ltd. Şti. is a Turkish private software company, founded in 2012 and headquartered at Bilkent Cyberpark in Ankara, that sells a B2B innovation management platform to organizations with 50 or more employees. Its product, marketed as innoCentrum Enterprise, is delivered as a SaaS application hosted on Amazon Web Services or installed on-premises, and is organized into four modules — Innovate (managing innovation suggestions from staff and external stakeholders), Improve (collecting, evaluating and rewarding improvement suggestions), Challenge (running startup, idea and project competitions) and Project (tracking projects generated from suggestions) — supported by features such as LDAP-based user management, multi-method evaluation (benefit analysis, mentor, jury and committee), stakeholder voting and commenting, gamification with Innovation Points and leaderboards, and integration with Active Directory, ERP and SAP.

The company monetizes the platform through per-seat monthly subscriptions priced from $1.99 per user per month at 1-250 users, scaling down to $1.00 at 501-1,000 users, with custom contracts above 1,000 users; volume discounts of 20% are available to R&D centers and participants in the TİM İnoSuit program, and 30% discounts to NGOs and universities. Customers span multiple verticals, with named logos including HAVELSAN, TOFAŞ, Tat Gıda, Farplas, Opet Fuchs, the Turkish Ministry of Economy, İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Samulaş, POBIAD and BVS Cranes. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales, with prospects qualifying for demos based on user count, supported by a website and a Medium blog. Key partnerships include HAVELSAN for cybersecurity validation of the platform and Amazon Web Services for cloud delivery.

The company operates with a very small internal team (1-10 employees), has not disclosed any external funding, and is privately held with no disclosed ownership structure, so revenue, headcount growth and valuation data are not publicly available. No AI/ML capabilities are present in the current product; differentiation rests on HAVELSAN-validated security, integration with common enterprise systems, and a localized feature set oriented to the Turkish enterprise, public-sector and municipal market.

Name

innoCentrum

Legal name

innoCentrum® Sistematik İnovasyon Yönetimi Ltd. Şti.

Website

https://innocentrum.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

innoCentrum is a Turkish B2B SaaS company selling a cloud and on-premises innovation management platform that helps enterprises, public institutions, municipalities, hospitals, universities and NGOs collect, evaluate and track ideas and improvement suggestions from staff and external stakeholders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Innovation Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (51321)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Application Modernization & Upgrades (incl. S/4HANA, cloud migrations) (BPAEAGAG)

Keywords

• Innovation management software
• Suggestion management platform
• Open innovation competitions
• Intrapreneurship software
• Enterprise idea management

Headquarters

HQ city

Çankaya

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Per-User SaaS Subscription: Monthly subscription pricing based on number of users (employees, members, suppliers, distributors) accessing the platform. Pricing tiers provide volume discounts for larger organizations. Deployment options include cloud (SaaS on Amazon) or on-premises installation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

innoCentrum Enterprise is a cloud-based and on-premises innovation management software platform that enables organizations to systematically collect, evaluate, and manage innovation and improvement suggestions from staff and external stakeholders. The platform combines suggestion management, open innovation and intrapreneurship competitions, project tracking, and gamification, and is sold as a per-user monthly SaaS subscription with volume discounts.

Product overview

innoCentrum Enterprise is a comprehensive innovation management software platform offered as a unified system with four main modules (innoCentrum Innovate, innoCentrum Improve, innoCentrum Challenge, and innoCentrum Project) plus supporting features. innoCentrum Innovate manages innovation suggestions from staff and external stakeholders; innoCentrum Improve handles improvement suggestions from staff with evaluation and rewards; innoCentrum Challenge runs competitions for ideas and projects; and innoCentrum Project tracks projects generated from suggestions. Supporting features include Incentive and Reward Management, User Management (with LDAP integration), flexible evaluation methods (Benefit Analysis, Mentor Evaluation, Jury Evaluation, Committee Evaluation), gamification (Innovation Points, Leader Boards), stakeholder engagement (Comments, Voting), and reporting. The platform is accessible via mobile devices, supports cloud (SaaS on Amazon) or on-premises installation, and integrates with existing systems like Active Directory and ERP.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• innoCentrum Innovate: Module for managing innovation suggestions from staff and external stakeholders on a single platform, with focused innovation campaigns to guide staff on priority needs or problems.
• innoCentrum Improve
• innoCentrum Challenge
• innoCentrum Project

Products and services

• innoCentrum Enterprise

Quantifiable outcome

• Quality of products, services and processes improves through systematic innovation management
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HAVELSANcoreTechnology or IntegrationHAVELSAN, a major Turkish defense and technology company, has conducted rigorous and comprehensive cybersecurity testing of innoCentrum's platform, validating its enterprise-grade security for deployment in sensitive environments.
• Amazon Web ServicescoreTechnology or IntegrationinnoCentrum's cloud deployment option utilizes Amazon's server infrastructure for SaaS delivery, enabling scalable and reliable access to the innovation management platform.
• TİM (Turkish Exporters Assembly)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerCompanies participating in TİM İnoSuit Innovation Oriented Mentoring Program receive 20% discount on innoCentrum pricing, facilitating broader adoption among Turkish exporters and innovation-focused companies.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• SAP (Innovation Management): SAP's broader enterprise suite includes innovation and idea management capabilities integrated with its core ERP/HR products. Relevant as an incumbent that competes for the same innovation budget and offers a more comprehensive but less specialized alternative.
• Microsoft (Viva Topics / Ideas): Microsoft Viva and the broader Microsoft 365 / Teams ecosystem increasingly embed idea, feedback, and engagement capabilities. Represents the platform-consolidation threat for standalone innovation management tools.
• Medallia (Employee Experience): Medallia extends its customer experience platform into employee listening and idea capture. Adjacent competitor for budget and mindshare with enterprise CX/EX buyers, though it does not specialize in innovation management like innoCentrum.

Direct peers

• IdeaScale: IdeaScale is one of the largest dedicated innovation management SaaS platforms, offering idea submission, voting, challenges, and implementation tracking for enterprises and government. Directly comparable to innoCentrum in product category, target buyer (enterprise innovation leaders), and core functionality.
• Wazoku: Wazoku is a UK-based innovation management platform offering idea capture, challenges, and crowdsourcing. Direct peer targeting similar enterprise and public-sector customers.
• Spigit (Planview): Spigit, now part of Planview, is a leading enterprise innovation management platform used by Fortune 500 companies for idea crowdsourcing and innovation portfolio management. Closely comparable to innoCentrum in core functionality and target segment.
• HYPE Innovation: HYPE Innovation (Germany) offers an enterprise innovation management suite with idea campaigns, communities, and innovation portfolios. Direct competitor with stronger EMEA presence, comparable to innoCentrum's offering.
• Qmarkets: Qmarkets (Israel) provides idea management, open innovation, and innovation portfolio software for enterprises. Direct peer with overlapping modules — suggestion collection, evaluation workflows, and challenge-based programs.
• Planbox: Planbox provides AI-powered innovation management software covering idea collection, challenges, evaluation, and project tracking. Direct competitor with a comparable end-to-end platform.
• Brightidea: Brightidea provides an enterprise innovation platform covering idea management, hackathons, crowdsourcing, and innovation pipelines. Closely overlaps innoCentrum's Innovate, Improve, Challenge, and Project modules and serves similar mid-to-large enterprise buyers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/innocentrum

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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