I landed in StartupLand 5 years ago, when the company I work for, decided to intensify the promotion activities of new entrepreneurial initiatives. In the last 5 years, I’ve had the chance to participate in the thrilled process of turning…
Read More Scaleupitaly: give more power to the Italian start-ups
AIFI, the Italian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (aifi.it), provides statistics on the activity of venture capital funds every year. The Italian early stage segment (seed, start-up and scale-up stages) registered a meaningful growth in 2018, both in terms…
Read More Italian venture capital investments are (finally) increasing: the market in 2018
There are few statistics on Italian scale-ups, a good analysis is produced by Mind the Bridge together with Startup Europe Partnership. They define “scale-up” a company that has raised at least € 1 million since its inception, and they analyse…
The first and most recent official survey on the typical profile of the Italian start-upper is dated 2018, when the Italian Government undertook a survey on 2.250 innovative start-ups – representing 44% of the total start-ups registered into the dedicated section…
Since 2012, the Italian Government has been fostering innovation to promote digitalisation and strengthen the competitiveness of the Italian industry. With the new industrial policy “Industria 4.0” (“Enterprise 4.0”) and the Italian policy framework for innovative start-ups (also known as…
Read More The rise of innovative start-ups and SMEs: key statistics
