1) LVenture Group
LVenture Group is part of an ecosystem of innovators to whom they offer co-working spaces, post-acceleration, and open innovation services.
Details of the startup:
- City: Roma
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: Antonella Zullo, Luigi Capello
- Industries: Biotech, Digital, Cleantech, Proptech, EdTech
- Number of investments: 126
- Number of exits: 6
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 20
You can find their website here.
2) H-FARM
H-FARM is an innovation platform that helps young people and companies learn about the digital world and create new business models. It also helps them learn how to use technology.
Details of the startup:
- City: Roncade
- Started in: 2005
- Founders: Giuseppe Miroglio, Maurizio Rossi, Riccardo Donadon
- Industries: B2B, Blockchain, Fashion, FinTech, Food, Beverage, IoT, Retail, SaaS, Travel
- Number of investments: 87
- Number of exits: 15
You can find their website here.
3) Digital Magics
Digital Magics is a business incubator that helps innovative startups and SMEs in the tech world by giving them assistance and money.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2004
- Founders: Alberto Fioravanti, Bibop Gabriele Gresta, Enrico Gasperini, Gabriele Ronchini
- Industries: IoT, FinTech, InsurTech, Health, Travel, Ecommerce Marketplaces, Software, Food, Transportation, AI, Industry 4.0, Blockchain
- Number of investments: 72
- Number of exits: 5
You can find their website here.
4) Nanabianca
Nana Bianca is where the most important group of Italian innovators talk about projects and ideas for the future.
Details of the startup:
- City: Florence
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: Alessandro Sordi, Jacopo Marello, Paolo Barberis
- Industries: Information Technology
- Number of investments: 34
- Number of exits: 4
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 17
You can find their website here.
5) Enry's Island
Enry's Island gives startups all the tools and services they need to make their ideas come to life.
Details of the startup:
- City: Pescara
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Luigi Valerio Rinaldi
- Industries: Video Games
- Number of investments: 32
You can find their website here.
6) I3P
I3P helps innovative start-ups get started and grow by giving them strategic consulting services, coaching, mentoring, help with fundraising, and spaces.
Details of the startup:
- City: Torino
- Started in: 1999
- Industries: Aerospace, AI, Blockchain, Circular Economy, Cleantech, DeepTech, Drones, FinTech, Industrial, Information Technology, MedTech, New Mobility
- Number of investments: 29
You can find their website here.
7) Techstars Smart Mobility
Techstars helps many of the best entrepreneurs in the world by giving them access to capital, mentoring, finding customers, hiring talent, choosing the right infrastructure, and a lot more.
Details of the startup:
- City: Turin
- Industries: Mobility, Sustainability, DeepTech, Logistics, EdTec
- Number of investments: 22
You can find their website here.
8) Boox
Boox is an accelerator that focuses on ecommerce and SaaS projects in their early stages.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2011
- Founders: Andrea Di Camillo, Marco Magnocavallo
- Industries: Ecommerce, SaaS
- Number of investments: 13
- Number of exits: 4
You can find their website here.
9) Fashion Technology Accelerator Milan
Fashion Technology Accelerator is a program that helps fashion tech startups increase their value by increasing sales and brand recognition.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Enrico Beltramini, Paolo Ivancevich
- Industries: Fashion, Luxury, Retail
- Number of investments: 09
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 24
You can find their website here.
10) B4i - Bocconi for innovation
Through their Pre-Acceleration and Acceleration programs, B4i helps you grow your business by giving you training, coaching, chances to network, and capital investments.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2019
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 07
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 18
You can find their website here.
11) SocialFare
SocialFare's goal is to catalyse, create, and innovate solutions for the Common Good. This includes research, product/service design, and entrepreneurial models to promote and support change and create economic value from social value.
Details of the startup:
- City: Torino
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
- Number of investments: 07
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 16
You can find their website here.
12) Club Acceleratori
Club Acceleratori is a SiamoSoci project that leverages partnerships with business accelerators and incubators to achieve real success in the Italian market.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Industries: Technology
- Number of investments: 07
You can find their website here.
13) Bio4Dreams
Bio4Dreams is a business incubator and an international aggregator for Life Sciences. It helps researchers and young entrepreneurs with their projects when they are just starting out.
Details of the startup:
- City: Bresso
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Daniele Cusi, Elisabetta Borello, Laura Iris Ferro, Pietro Conti
- Industries: Life Sciences
- Number of investments: 03
You can find their website here.
14) TIM #WCAP
TIM is the biggest ICT company in Italy and Brazil, putting it at the forefront of digital technologies.
Details of the startup:
- City: Rome
- Industries: Big Data, AI, Video Analytics, Smart Transportation, Waste Management, Smart Energy, Smart Buildings, Sustainability, HealthTech, Caas, IoT, Retail, Smart Urban
- Number of investments: 03
You can find their website here.
15) Vittoria Hub
Each startup chosen by the Vittoria hub program has the chance to get prizes worth up to €60,000 and other ways to get money.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2019
- Industries: InsurTech
- Number of investments: 02
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 17
You can find their website here.
16) Impact Hub Milan
Impact Hub helps people work together. They put entrepreneurs and innovators in touch with large companies, partners, investors, and the government.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2010
- Industries: AgTech, Tourism, Mobility, MedTech
- Number of investments: 02
You can find their website here.
17) BiovelocITA
BiovelocITA S.r.l. is the first biotech accelerator in Italy.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2015
- Founders: Silvano Spinelli
- Industries: Biotech, Healthcare, Sustainability
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
18) PoliHub
PoliHub provides a 12- or 16-week training to assist teams in establishing the correct entrepreneurial attitude.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2013
- Industries: DeepTech
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
19) Orbita Verticale
Orbita Verticale wants to find startups that want to change their target market and give them the skills they need to be successful in the long run.
Details of the startup:
- City: Rome
- Industries: Information Technology
- Number of investments: 01
You can find their website here.
20) Open Accelerator
Open Accelerator is an international program that helps projects in Life Sciences scale quickly.
Details of the startup:
- City: Bresso
- Industries: Technology
You can find their website here.
21) Open Seed
Open Seed wants to put invest the most interesting new businesses in Italy.
Details of the startup:
- City: Firenze
- Started in: 2016
- Industries: Technology
You can find their website here.
22) Retail Hub
RH helps startups network, try new things, and figure out how to go to market.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2020
- Founders: Massimo Volpe
- Industries: Pharma, Fashion, Sports, Grocery, Human Resources
You can find their website here.
23) Industrio
Industrio is an investor and a company that helps hardware startups grow.
Details of the startup:
- City: Trento
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Jari Ognibeni
- Industries: Mechatronics, IoT, Robotics, Computer Vision, Biomedical, Smart Mobility
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 16
You can find their website here.
24) G2 Startups
G2 is a platform for open innovation and an accelerator for startups. Through a "Open Innovation" approach, they help companies develop processes for coming up with new ideas.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2012
- Industries: Wearables, Hardware, MedTech, Design, Food, Lifestyle, Ecommerce, Mobile Apps, FinTech, Retail, Travel, Hospitality
You can find their website here.
25) StartupGym Studio
StartupGym builds, launches, and grows digital businesses of the next generation by providing a variety of services in one place, such as product creation, marketing, finance, capital raising, and talent development.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2021
- Industries: FinTech, FoodTech
You can find their website here.
26) CREA
An European Network of Summer Academies for the development of innovative business ideas focused on Creativity and ICT.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
27) Open2TheFuture
Open2TheFuture is building a positive feedback loop to speed up the process of turning new ideas into real projects.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Industries: Information Technology
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 11
You can find their website here.
28) Pushapp Lab
Pushapp Lab is a Startup Studio that helps digital entrepreneurs, with a focus on scalable enterprise projects.
Details of the startup:
- City: Napoli
- Started in: 2012
- Industries: Technology
You can find their website here.
29) INCENSe Accelerator
The goal of the Internet Cleantech Enablers Spark project (INCENSe) is to encourage innovation and create high-tech jobs in the European Energy Sector.
Details of the startup:
- City: Rome
- Started in: 2014
- Industries: Energy, Cleantech
You can find their website here.
30) Growth Club Capital
Growth Capital Club is Italy's first program to help great small and medium-sized businesses grow faster.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
31) FoodTech Accelerator
FoodTech Accelerator is a global Open Innovation Program that brings together the best companies from Made in Italy and the best startups from around the world to boost the agrifood and retail sectors.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2018
- Industries: FoodTech, AgTech
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 15
You can find their website here.
32) SELLALAB
Sellalab is a place where people can come together to work and share ideas.
Details of the startup:
- City: Biella
- Industries: Design, Life Science, MedTech, Automotive, Energy, Space, Robotics, Ecommerce Services, Textile, Fashion Tech, Tourism, Culture, Entertainment, AgTech, HRtech, FinTech, InsurTech, Media
You can find their website here.
33) BlockchainLab
Blockchainlab helps build the strongest community of experts and gives businesses the skills they need to understand and use the blockchain technology.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2016
- Industries: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
You can find their website here.
34) FOUNDAMENTA
Foundamenta offers new entrepreneurial models which open new opportunities for startups and for the economy.
Details of the startup:
- City: Torino
- Industries: EdTech, Healthcare, Platform Software
- Accelerator Duration (in weeks): 15
You can find their website here.
35) Environment Park
Environment Park is a technology park in Torino where people have been working on improving the environment for more than 20 years.
Details of the startup:
- City: Turin
- Started in: 1996
- Industries: Energy Sustainebility
You can find their website here.
36) Startalia.com
Startalia is a place to start a business. They make startups that have a lot of potential and work with founders in residence to make better products and services.
Details of the startup:
- City: Roma
- Started in: 2012
- Industries: FinTech
You can find their website here.
37) Intesa Sanpaolo Start Up Initiative
Intesa Sanpaolo's Start-Up Initiative picks up-and-coming businesses and helps them get ready for investors by giving them a lot of coaching.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2009
- Industries: Technology
You can find their website here.
38) Call for Ideas
Call for Ideas is an incubation, adoption, and acceleration program for Insurtech startups. Its goal is to help a few of them go from having an idea to putting it on the market.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Industries: AI, IoT, Dlt Technologies, Blockchain
You can find their website here.
39) Vulcanic
Vulcanc helps you grow by helping you build a strong network of contacts, figuring out the best market for your products or services, and getting money for your ideas.
Details of the startup:
- City: Catania
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
40) Innova Day
Innova Day is a project sponsored by Fondazione DemoCenter-Sipe. It is an accelerator program for high-tech start-ups, university spin-offs, and inventors who want to develop and market their ideas, technologies, and patents.
Details of the startup:
- City: Modena
- Started in: 2009
- Industries: Nanotech, Biotech, Biomed
You can find their website here.
41) LAB Creative Thinking
LAB Creative Thinking helps italy startups and teams in the pre-seed stage.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Started in: 2016
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.
42) growITup
growITup is a centre for innovation that turns on a talent supply chain that can include experiential training courses and programs to help entrepreneurs.
Details of the startup:
- City: Milan
- Industries: Industry Agnostic
You can find their website here.