Italy startup ecosystem
Italy's startup ecosystem is gaining momentum, led by Milan's fintech and fashion-tech clusters and a growing community in Rome. Strong design heritage, a large domestic market, and increasing government incentives for innovation — including tax credits and the Italian Startup Act — are helping founders overcome historically fragmented capital markets. The directory currently lists 67 organisations across 17 cities.
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Talent Garden
Talent Garden is Europe's largest network of coworking and innovation campuses, founded in Brescia, Italy in 2011 and now headquartered in Milan. The company operates over 20 campuses across Europe including locations in Italy, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, and Romania, hosting a community of more than 5,000 innovators, startups, freelancers, and corporate innovation teams. Beyond workspace, Talent Garden runs TAG Innovation School, offering digital skills training in data science, UX design, digital marketing, and coding, and organizes community events, hackathons, and corporate innovation programs. The Milan flagship campus is one of the largest coworking spaces in Italy and serves as a central meeting point for the city's tech ecosystem. Talent Garden has raised significant venture funding to expand its European footprint and has become a model for how coworking communities can serve as genuine innovation ecosystems rather than mere office providers.
Tech All Stars (Italian Tech Week) Side Event 2026
Startup and investor matchmaking during Wave in Turin — the conference that ran as Italian Tech Week until it was renamed, and whose site italiantechweek.com now redirects to wavebyvento.com. Held alongside the main programme at OGR Torino with pitch competitions, VC office hours and corporates scouting for innovation, it draws founders from across southern Europe. Free to EUR 50.
Treedom
Treedom is the world's first online agroforestry funding platform, allowing individuals and companies to plant trees in community-based projects across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, with each tree geotagged and photographed. Founded in Florence in 2010 by Federico Garcea and Tommaso Speroni, Treedom has planted over 3.3 million trees across 42 projects in 14 countries. Certified B-Corp since 2014, the company runs a hybrid B2B2C model — selling corporate sustainability packages to companies and individual tree gifting to consumers. Backed by Banca Sella with $14.4 million raised and 84 employees as of 2026.
United Ventures
Founded in 2013 by Massimiliano Magrini (former Google Italy MD) and Paolo Gesess, United Ventures is one of Italy's leading independent technology-focused VC firms, with cumulative AUM approaching €500 million across three funds including a €150 million early-stage Fund III (launched 2023) and a dedicated growth vehicle, UV T-Growth. The firm targets software, fintech, cybersecurity, cloud, IoT, and marketplace companies predominantly at Series A, co-investing across Italy and Europe. Its portfolio of 51 companies has generated 10 acquisitions and 2 IPOs; landmark investments include Musixmatch (10x+ return on exit to TPG), Everli (Series C lead, €22 million), and Cleafy (Series B, 2026).
Vento
Vento is an Italian early-stage venture investor that backs founders building from Italy and organises Wave, the Turin conference formerly known as Italian Tech Week. The firm invests at pre-seed and seed stage and runs the programming around Wave that brings international investors, founders and operators to the Officine Grandi Riparazioni complex in Turin each October.
Vertis Ventures
Founded in 2007, Vertis Ventures (formerly Vertis SGR) is a Naples-based VC bridging northern and southern Italy, managing over EUR 200M across early-stage and growth funds. The firm invests EUR 0.5-10M in media, fintech, and industrial tech, with a mandate to support innovation in Italy's Mezzogiorno region. Portfolio includes Buzzoole (influencer marketing), Optima Italia, and Mosaicoon. Vertis is notable for its focus on developing venture capital culture in southern Italy while maintaining national deal flow.
WMF - We Make Future 2026
A global festival for innovation, digital, and social enterprise, bringing together the startup ecosystem in Italy and beyond.
