Curious. Brave. Entrepreneurial. Collaborative.
AVL Creators is an open innovation initiative that brings together startups, corporates, and ecosystem partners to drive forward-thinking, collaborative innovation.

CREATORS is more than a team; it’s a mindset, a movement, and a growing ecosystem built on curiosity, bravery, entrepreneurship, and collaboration.
We believe the future is shaped not by one company or idea alone, but through co-creation across startups, corporates, and industries. We bring people together to tackle shared challenges and turn them into real, actionable business cases.
Being a Creator means asking bold questions, trying new things, and building with others, across boundaries and silos.
We’re open by design and the “we” includes every partner, colleague, and curious mind who chooses to join in.
Competition drives progress.
But collaboration builds what’s next.
Curious? Brave? Let’s build something together.
Creators Expedition is a program designed to connect startups with AVL in areas such as e-mobility, autonomous driving, AI and digitalization, sustainability, and beyond. The goal: to launch impactful co-creation projects.
Each collaboration pairs a startup with AVL experts to work on a first customer project, proof of concept (PoC), or R&D initiative, laying the groundwork for long-term partnerships and future innovation.Through real-world application, Creators Expedition helps startups scale faster while enabling AVL to stay at the forefront of emerging technologies.
Co-Lab is an ecosystem designed to accelerate cross-industry co-innovation.
We connect companies across the value chain and provide the tools and structure needed to turn ideas into acceleration-ready opportunities.
Over a six-month journey, participating companies explore shared use cases and key collaboration themes, form working groups, and identify real problems worth solving. Together, they co-develop actionable business cases, culminating in a final graduation event, where teams pitch their collaboration outcomes to the management of all participating organizations.
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We have been pioneering various business and technology areas together with startups, corporates and beyond. Explore their stories to find out, how the AVL Creators is building an ecosystem for startups, corporates and entrepreneurs.

Staying ahead in the automotive industry requires continuous innovation and the ability to quickly identify emerging technologies and startups.

Curious – Brave – Collaborative – Entrepreneurial.
Four words that define the mindset of a creator.

Why would someone leave the warm spring weather in Austria in March to head to the still icy city of Vaasa far up north in Finland?

In an exciting collaboration between our team and the Department of Innovation Management at FH CAMPUS 02 University of Applied Sciences, we embarked on a comprehensive project titled "AI in Organizations."

In the relentless pursuit of sustainable mobility, AVL, a global leader in mobility technology solutions, has forged a groundbreaking partnership with UK-based startup Spark EV Technology, sparking innovation in the intelligent energy management of fuel cell commercial vehicles.

We are thrilled to unveil an exciting event on our calendar that's sure to ignite your entrepreneurial spirit and celebrate the power of collaboration! 📅 Save the Date: November 17th, 2023
To bring our joint vision into reality, we enlarge the ecosystem by bringing in our customers - the leading OEMs in the world, collaborating with startup networks, universities, and public institutions. All of them can be instrumental at different stages in our journey.
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