Strategic briefing
We frame the question you are facing and map where the answer lives, in China, the US or India. You find out whether a visit is worth the flights, and what it should target.
Xcubed gives leaders in health, technology and finance trusted access to the world's innovation frontiers, in China, the US, India and beyond. We turn what you find there into strategy, partnerships and ventures you can act on.
We frame the question before you go, and translate what you see when you return.
Innovation no longer sits in one place. China leads in some technologies, the US in others, India in talent and scale. From the outside each frontier is hard to read accurately and harder to reach credibly. We close both gaps, wherever the answer lives.
An immersion is only worth the flights if something changes when your leaders get home. Our work sits either side of the visit.
We sit with you to define the strategic question the visit must answer, and shape the itinerary around it.
Curated access to the companies, labs and hospitals that matter to you, with us there to interpret in real time.
A written view, clear options and a board-ready case, so a memorable trip becomes a made decision.
Three shapes, depending on how far you want to go. Most begin with a briefing, then decide.
We frame the question you are facing and map where the answer lives, in China, the US or India. You find out whether a visit is worth the flights, and what it should target.
A curated visit to the companies, labs and institutions that matter to you, hosted and interpreted in real time, framed before you go and synthesised when you return.
We help you act on what you found: partner introductions, diligence, or standing up a venture or capability, with our people on both sides of the bridge.
Pricing is scoped to each engagement. Start with a briefing and we shape the rest around your question.
Request a briefingOne relationship model across four worlds and every frontier, each led by people who belong in the room.
Early-stage pipelines are moving fast, with China now originating a large share and the US still setting the commercial pace. We convene and interpret both as peers, not tourists.
Robotics, autonomous mobility and applied AI, seen where they are actually being built, from Shenzhen to the Bay Area to Bengaluru.
The cost, care and delivery reforms Western systems debate, running at national scale elsewhere, with the lessons that transfer.
Safe, guided journeys that open young minds to the technology shaping their future, with parents welcome to join.
The same access and judgment, shaped for two different rooms.
Strategic briefings, hosted immersions and retained advisory for leaders in health, technology and finance, across China, the US and India.
Request a briefingInnovation tours, hackathons and summer camps, showing the next generation where the future is being built.
Explore family journeysA structured China immersion for postgraduates, young founders and gap-year students. Build something real, travel with a cohort, and come home with a plan.
Explore the Frontier CohortA view of the shift, drawn from current, credible sources rather than assertion.
The US still sets the pace on capital and commercialisation. If you want to read where AI money goes, you read America first.
Chinese drugmakers signed about $136bn in cross-border out-licensing in 2025, close to ten times the level of 2021.
India has moved from cost arbitrage to running product, R and D and AI for the world's largest companies.
Built by people with board-level experience inside a global health payer, and deep enterprise AI and data. We speak your language.
The immersion is the method. Our value is the framing before and the translation after, the part that does not commoditise.
Delivered programmes through world-leading innovators, with local partners in each market whose relationships are already built.
Start with a short briefing, shaped around the question you are actually facing.
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