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Meet Our Founder

"We aim to bridge the gap between idea generation and implementation by providing cutting edge innovation tools to organizations"

Sam Zellner- InspireIP CEO
Sam Zellner
CEO, Founder

When you’ve worked in the industry for a long time and secured over 200 patents as an inventor, it teaches you. You learn the ins and outs of the business – the pros, the cons, the flaws, and the possible solutions to these problems.

While working at one of the top telecommunications organizations as Executive Director of Patent Development and Executive Director of Innovation, I noticed the management of innovation was not optimal.

Ideas were getting lost because inventors were too busy to share their thoughts or assumed the company did not care.

As a result, the patent team found it challenging to maintain a flow of good ideas.

The impact of this lost innovation became very apparent in my role and bugged me to do something about it.

I realized our systems needed to engage our inventors or stakeholders more effectively.

Like many organizations, we tried a crowdsourcing approach to increase employee engagement and use the crowd to filter the ideas. This approach added a significant new burden on the team to constantly monitor the crowd behavior.

Without a practical method to manage the ideas pipeline, the processing of ideas became very time-consuming.

At this point, I realized how critical practical tools and processes were in engaging innovators and inventors and managing the innovation funnel. This experience and my research into other tools inspired InspireIP

Destressed employee
innovation culture

When I realized how common my experience was and that other innovation leaders and companies face similar struggles, I knew I had to tackle it.

As a believer in the power of innovation, I created a platform that enables leaders and companies to:

  • Manage innovation.
  • Create successful and sustainable innovation programs
  • Run an innovation strategy backed by industry-best practices
  • Scale effortlessly

Lo and behold, InspireIP was born!

Now, we have Idea Assist and IP Assist helping companies capture, manage, evaluate, and implement their employee ideas efficiently and turn valuable ideas into reality.

At InspireIP, we believe in and strive to empower organizations to “Foster Innovation ASAP!”. 

Why wait?

Get started today by mailing us at [email protected] for a demo.  

When ideas thrive, innovation flows.

The InspireIP idea management platform is designed to give teams structure and visibility to surface the ideas with the greatest potential.

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