Agos is a leading financial company in the consumer credit sector, present in Italy for over thirty years. It is 61% owned by Crédit Agricole through Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance and 39% by Banco BPM. With 2,000 employees and more than 200 branches, it supports the implementation of its customers’ projects and the sales of its partners in the various markets by offering personal loans, targeted financing, credit cards, salary-backed loans, leasing and a wide range of insurance services.
Agos values a customer-first perspective. Operational efficiency and particular attention to customer care together with the continuous search for innovation are distinctive features of Agos, which wants to be 100% human and 100% digital.
Agos has always worked on the basis of transparency, trust and respect. Values that are also reflected in environmental, economic and social sustainability, issues that the company cares about with the aim of promoting sustainable economic development and of improving every area in which respect is synonymous with growth.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Agos is engaging in a new call for startups which seeks to find innovative technologies for energy efficiency and solutions aimed at creating a circular economy system. AGOS aims to innovate and lead its clients towards a sustainable path.
Agos’ challenge is to support customers in rethinking home habits and equipping them so as to improve energy efficiency, thus generating economic savings and reducing their climate impact, in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
The aim is inventing new, more environmentally friendly ways of designing the housing market (private homes and condominiums) through offers, services, and a customer experience aligned with higher and more sustainable living standards. The expected output is multiple: from offering new services, to digital solutions, to creating strategic partnerships with the goal of supporting customers and winning the challenge to actively intervene and create, deliver, and capture value for the widest range of stakeholders.
The aim of this call is to find innovative solutions with particular focus on:
ADVISORY
Solutions for increasing customer awareness on their home current energy efficiency such as assessment, consumption monitoring, energy class mapping of white and brown home goods
MONITORING
Solutions that can help Agos assess the energy efficiency rates of goods purchased by its customers
CONDOMINIUM SOLUTIONS
Solutions that can enable Agos to offer its services to condominium managers
Solutions for increasing customer awareness on how to increase their home energy efficiency, such as products and/or services favoring energy transition
Tracking energy efficiency of customers' homes
Products and services to improve energy efficiency
WHAT YOU WILL WIN
The startup(s) with the most suitable projects for the company’s interests will have the opportunity to integrate their proposal to AGOS’ own service solutions and to collaborate with a team of experts in developing their commercial product.
Among the selected startups, the most promising one will be rewarded with vouchers worth of 3000 €: the startup will have the opportunity to choose between Amazon Vouchers and an acceleration program at Le Village by CA Milan.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
Startups admitted to the call should have no more than six years of activity and have completed a POC (Proof of Concept) phase. Startups must have a proven business and a pre-existing clientele.
APPLICATIONS
Applications can be submitted in English or Italian, and they will be evaluated by AGOS Management Team.
To submit your solution, please complete the form below in full by no later than 31st of October 2022.
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