The Corporate Venturing of Talgo: We help your business grow while we discover the future of the mobility industry together

What is Talgo Inspire?

Talgo Inspire is Talgo’s Corporate Venturing unit. Our mission is to create and develop projects in collaboration with startups around the world under the venture client model. This way we work on building agreements with startups with which we share an innovative vision of a sustainable, responsible, and technologically advanced future in the mobility industry.

At Talgo Inspire, we offer you our expertise and our assets to work together for the benefit of clean transport as well as for the present and future of mobility.

We aim to be a booster of innovation in the railway sector. Therefore, we seek to find and work with those startups that have designed disruptive technologies which could improve our products or processes since we want to become the bridge that connects these pioneering ideas with the railway sector, providing opportunities for growth and global expansion.

We have a clear, agile, and efficient process and we are looking for partners with whom we can challenge convention and reinvent the way we move.

Talgo Inspire is an open door to collaboration and co-creation towards the future of mobility and the railway industry, a sector that is set to become the backbone of mobility in the coming years due to the strong involvement of governments around the world in reducing emissions and enlarging sustainability. In this sense, Talgo, thanks to its light trains and its constant technological reinvention, has become the international reference in the manufacturing of railway rolling stock.

Innovation Areas

Processes efficiency

Solutions towards optimising and automatising tasks in the company's transversal services (i.e.: accounting, HR, QA, purchasing, etc.)

Energy efficiency and sustainability

Developing technologies that enable trains and manufacturing methods to be more efficient and sustainable

Mobility of the future

Supporting and discovering new mobility modes and services, developing intermodality and mobility as a service with rail at the heart of it

Industry 4.0

Digitalisation of train manufacturing processes for improved efficiency, quality, and safety

User experience

Offering solutions that ensure an excepcional and memorable train journey, wheter before, during or after it

Accesibility

Granting 360º accessibility on board our trains, push beyond just improving physical accessibility

Process with startups

1
Send us your proposal

Respond to our form by sharing your value proposition for Talgo

2
We analyze the proposal

We will review your proposal with the relevant areas of Talgo

3
1:1 Meeting

If it aligns with our roadmap, we will meet with you to assess the next steps

4
Concept test design

We jointly define a use case and the reference KPIs to evaluate the success of the Proof of Concept

5
We signed an agreement

We formalized our relationship with a specific and equity-free agreement

6
Proof-of-concept

We executed the proof of concept with experts from Talgo's areas

7
Proof of concept evaluation

We analyze the results and, if they are positive, we scale and grow together

8
Welcome...

to the global railway sector!

We are looking for startups that:

  • Have disruptive and innovative products or services which help us to improve our trains and our internal processes regardless of the lack of previous experience working in the mobility sector
  • Want to become a global reference
  • Have unique value propositions
  • Want to discover with us the future of the mobility industry

What do we offer?

A market with a great present and future

You will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of sustainable and cutting-edge solutions with Talgo, a benchmark in the ever-growing railway industry.

International dimension

Talgo's presence on four continents is the perfect showcase to expand your startup internationally in an efficient and effective way.

Access to exclusive assets to test your solution in real environments

You will be able to access to data and assets within the reach of very few.

Experts to develop your startup

You will count on our experience, gained over more than 80 years of the company's history, to help you develop your products and services.

Paid Proof of Concept

We like to consider startups as our partners, and we seek mutual benefit, which is why we always cover the costs of proof of concept.