A more diverse involvement in business decisions

Accelerace have invested in Involved, who are  dedicated to enhancing decision-making by providing leaders with access to diverse perspectives from employees and stakeholders.

Imagine a large meeting room, filled with stakeholders who have insights and opinions on the company’s next major focus area – the reason for today’s meeting. But somehow, even though more than 20 intelligent and competent people, with different skillsets, from different departments are gathered, decision makers are not getting the best possible insights – the insights they need to make the best decision. The reason is, that a few people have hijacked the conversation. They are having their own discussion over the topic at hand, not leaving room for other observations, understandings or arguments. They are comfortable, but the rest are not, speaking up in front of everyone – for multiple different reasons. This is the same image at every meeting.

52 % concur that their biggest challenge in meetings is to get everyone to speak up. Thus many decisions are made without the full picture or without every idea needed to come to the best conclusion. Because of that, many decisions are made without the full picture or without every idea, leading to lower quality of decisions.

“This is not just an inclusion tool. This is a decision making tool, and a business impact tool. With more and better ‘data’, your business will do better,” – Claus Kristensen, Partner at Accelerace.

Involved are working to increase the quality of insights that decision makers have available, by creating a space in which everyone is comfortable sharing their opinions and ideas. They have done so with an app that encourages input from everyone. Instead of having to turn up physically for a meeting to give comments, questions or suggestions, they can be made anonymously. For a lot of introvert people, this is a barrier. But it is not just a barrier for the introverts, also to the companies, because the insights and ideas perhaps won’t see the light of day.
Involved creates a digital, anonymous space where everyone can share their thoughts, exchange ideas, and contribute to discussions. Employees can evaluate and prioritize input while gaining new perspectives. A unique algorithm ensures that no ideas are lost and that everyone has an equal opportunity to be heard. 

Along with Accelerace, Ada Ventures have invested in Involved, and the team will use the financing to build an agentic AI that will make it even easier for leaders to unlock human intelligence to make better decisions and expand from the Danish and Dutch markets to the rest of Scandinavia and Benelux.

“We believe the future belongs to organizations that harness the collective intelligence of their people. Joining the Accelerace Portfolio gives us the expertise and network to think bigger, scale faster, and make that vision a reality. We couldn’t be more excited for the future ahead!” – Sara Høyer Kragelund, CEO at Involved.