In cryptography, the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG) is an international consortium founded by Certicom in 1998.

X/Open Company, Ltd. was a consortium founded by several European UNIX systems manufacturers in 1984 to identify and promote open standards in the field of information technology.

The Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE) is a nonprofit consortium founded in 2006 by the primary organizations involved in U.S. surgical education.

OSEK is an open standard, published by a consortium founded by the automobile industry.

A consortium founded in 1998 that now includes 3Com, Ericsson, Intel, I.B.M., Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Toshiba has agreed to a single standard for such communications.

Fujitsu's VP240X supercomputer is being purchased by a not-for-profit consortium founded by the Pulsonic Corporation and ACTC Technologies, both of Calgary, Alberta.

This consortium, founded in 1918 by Wilhelm Hansen together with the collector Herman Heilbuth (1861-1945) and art dealers Winkel & Magnussen, was of great importance to the French purchases.

The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC) is a consortium founded to advance free broadcast mobile television in the United States.

AACS LA, a consortium founded in 2004, had been developing the DRM platform that could be used to securely distribute movies to consumers.

EHEDG is a consortium of equipment manufacturers, food industries, research institutes and public health authorities, founded in 1989 with the aim to promote hygiene during the processing and packing of food products.