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4.6 (13)
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Pros

  • SkipsoLabs has been a strong partner to develop Empower Innovation, a large and growing innovation marketplace. The company is very responsive to improvement requests and suggestions.

  • The personalization of the different tenants streams. This provides great value to our customers and a good overall management for us.

  • Overall the experience with SkipsoLabs is great. Their customer service is responsive and open.

Cons

  • Expect a learning curve for admins with limited back-end technology experience.

  • Being an off the self product it was difficult to map some of the processes need to the system but all have been accommodated perhaps not in the immediate way.

  • There is no user manual. Since we run annually there are many users that only use the software for a short period of time each year.

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Amber J. Y.
Senior Program Manager
Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
July 30, 2021

"Wonderful for our development team and audience of users!"

Overall: I cannot imagine how much longer it would have taken and how much more it would have cost to launch our ideation initiative without the Skipso Labs platform. It has been wonderful to house all of the information and processes in one place. We were even able to utilize the standalone website as part of our rebranding this year.

Pros: Skipso's customer service is out of this world. The platform has more features and functionality than we have been able to utilize yet, but our pilot program has been a huge success. The ability to customize features and privacy levels has been essential given our unique audience.

Cons: Expect a learning curve for admins with limited back-end technology experience.

Reasons for Choosing Skipso: Skipso Labs was one of fifteen or so products our team looked at and one of five that were seriously considered. The value ratio (features and capability compared to cost) was much higher with Skipso than the competitors.
Verified Reviewer
IoT Ecosystem Director
Consumer Electronics, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 21, 2019

"Great innovation matching platform"

Overall: We were able to set up a new service for our customers in a relatively short time, leveraging a lot of expertise and ready-made solutions. This helped us with customer engagement as well as market positioning as innovators.

Pros: Lots of custom support from the team, allowing us to build a B2B innovation matching system for our SME customers. Lightweight interface and as-a-service provisioning make this relatively easy to manage even within the context of large, cumbersome IT departments such as ours.

Cons: We could have used more support in the design phase, to help us focus on priority features and a long-term roadmap. Instead, we tried to do too much from the start, ultimately limiting the impact and usefulness of our service. Note: this is a client-side problem, but the supplier could help mitigate it with dedicated methodologies.

Reasons for Choosing Skipso: Proximity, flexibility, startup attitude, price.
Rebecca C.
Program Manager
Biotechnology, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
6/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
June 10, 2020

"Skipso - Review"

Overall: My experience with Skipso dramatically improved when [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] began working with us, she's been quick to answer any questions I have and has been very helpful with explaining how things work.

Pros: Both front and backend functionality in one platform including a public gallery, homepage setup, resource sharing, and information sharing on the FE and a submission portal, judging portal, payment feature on the BE.

Cons: The backend is not intuitive/user friendly. Data doesn't always seem accurate. Regularly need assistance.

Reasons for Choosing Skipso: Price
Laura V.
Associate Director
Utilities, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 24, 2020

"A fantastic product supporting cleantech innovation"

Overall: Using the SkipsoLabs innovation ecosystem platform, we have been able to launch, manage, and grow a successful community around cleantech innovation in California and globally, with more than 1,700 members and 500 companies in our first year of operation. With this platform, we offer a curated selection of cleantech funding opportunities, events, company profiles, resources, and more to our community. SkipsoLabs has been a true partner along the way, tailoring their unique ecosystem solution to our needs. They are a great team to work with.

Pros: SkipsoLabs' software is user friendly and includes a suite of features that fits our project requirements very well. We primarily leverage the SkipsoLabs innovation ecosystem platform for the cleantech community my firm manages. The searchable, customizable directories of both curated and user-generated content are a pleasure to work with.

Cons: My project required a number of dynamic relationships between different entities on the SkipsoLabs ecosystem platform (e.g., individual members associated with companies, companies associated with other companies, etc.), but there are some constraints around the number and type of dynamic relationships that are currently available without customization. However, the SkipsoLabs team is extremely willing to develop custom features and share improvements to their product among the client base once developed.

Will R.
Senior Lead
Research, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
February 11, 2021

"Fantastic product, fantastic team, great experience"

Overall: Easy to work with. Fantastic sprint / review sessions. Agile working. Responsive to our needs and always make time for us.

Pros: It's adaptability and its ability to work around our needs, rather than having to follow a generic workflow. Furthermore, it looks neat and easy to navigate, as well as being highly configurable.

Cons: Difference in language from admin perspective to provider perspective, but this is just a minor issue, skipso are good at understanding our language and have provided a language guide for us to make sure we're speaking on the same term.

Alternatives Considered: edison365 suite
Reasons for Switching to Skipso: We wanted something "out of the box" that allowed us to do the workflows that we were interested in, but also allowed a little customisation to fit our needs. The previous supplier used a platform that was too admin intensive and not very easy to use.
Jessica S.
Director, Operations
Renewables & Environment, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 1, 2020

"Skipso is a great Challenge Management Product"

Overall: Overall the experience with SkipsoLabs is great. Their customer service is responsive and open.

Pros: The features available through the software are a big reason why we initially chose and continue to choose Skipso to run our challenges. The ability to match startups to mentors within the system is important to us.

Cons: There is no user manual. Since we run annually there are many users that only use the software for a short period of time each year. We have to retrain people each year.

Christina B.
Business Consultant
Management Consulting, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
November 16, 2020

"Our go-to for an integrated innovation platform"

Overall: The relationships we have built up across the SkipsoLabs team has far exceeded my expectations - it goes well beyond a transactional relationship and is much more of a partnership to ensure our program needs are met. Whether its basic tech troubleshooting or bigger picture strategic discussions, the team are very willing and open to assist us build our innovation ecosystem and ensure we are optimising the use of our SkipsoLabs platform.

Pros: Having an integrated platform that has allowed us to run our open application & assessment process as well as provide an online tool to support the delivery of our tech acceleration program and build our innovation community. The personalised support throughout our platform build has been exceptional.

Cons: We've found a small number of functionality issues as we've gone through the stand-up process, however the team have taken these onboard and resolved them as quickly as possible.

Reasons for Choosing Skipso: We considered multiple other platforms but none of them provided the full suite of functionality that we were looking for - e.g. separately they provided certain elements such as open call & assessment, but not the other elements.
Florence L.
IT consultant
Retail, Self-employed
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
3.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 20, 2019

"platform for capital venture management"

Overall: fantastic experience both and the human and technical side

Pros: I did like the team spirit more than all the technology concepts/ the Team is able to listen , understand , possibly correct.. and propose. it is really a pleasure to work with this team

Cons: data management , due to the fact that the linguage between the customer and the team was not 100% the same.

Reasons for Choosing Skipso: for the team and the flexibility of the solutions proposed
Thomas J.
President
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
August 5, 2021

"Strong Innovation and Idea Management Platform "

Overall: SkipsoLabs has been a strong partner to develop Empower Innovation, a large and growing innovation marketplace. The company is very responsive to improvement requests and suggestions.

Pros: It is easy for companies to create profiles to promote their offerings, get feedback from experts and collaborate with potential partners. Integration with CRM platforms such as Salesforce is streamlined.

Cons: Would like more flexibility to modify the look and feel and fields.

Michele P.
BD Manager
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
3.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 14, 2020

"Great Tool for a niche market"

Pros: The personalization of the different tenants streams. This provides great value to our customers and a good overall management for us.

Cons: The backend is not very intuitive and needs a little bit of time to learn how to use it and where to search for features or menus.

matteo G.
manager
Financial Services, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 2+ years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
December 22, 2020

"professionali"

Overall: Skipso ha dimostarto di essere un fornitore innovativo e attento alle esigenze del cliente

Pros: Il software permette di fare ricerche e interagire con le startup e pmi innovative italiane. La user experience è piacevole il prodotto semplice da comprendere. L'assistenza nella fase di setup e successivamente è di ottimo livello

Cons: penso si possa migliorare l'autonomia del cliente nella customizzazione del software, in particolare nel layout.

Mike M.
Knowledge transfer Manager
Construction, 201-500 employees
Used the software for: Less than 6 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Features
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
February 17, 2021

"Innovation in UK Infrastructure"

Overall: Sharing innovations & project progress fits well with in the product and has been completed efficiently and quickly.

Pros: An off the self package that could be tailored to our requirements

Cons: Being an off the self product it was difficult to map some of the processes need to the system but all have been accommodated perhaps not in the immediate way

Reasons for Choosing Skipso: cost, speed of set up and attention to detail.
Reasons for Switching to Skipso: too dated and difficult to change look and feel
Laura U.
Project Director
Government Administration, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
January 15, 2021

"Use of SkipsoLabs platform in a City Challenge"

Overall: Very pleasant experience! Amazing team!

Pros: Amazingly quick and friendly customer service! The platform/ software well customizable for your needs!

Cons: Some specific reporting functions could be automated (though, the team helped also with our specific reporting needs)