Milan startup directory
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AI Week 2026
Billed as Europe's largest AI event, at Fiera Milano Rho with 700+ speakers, 250+ AI exhibitors, and 25,000+ attendees. Strong for founders selling AI tooling into enterprise and meeting corporate innovation buyers.
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AI*Festival
Organizer of Italy's AI*Festival, an annual event hosted at Bocconi University in Milan bringing together AI researchers, startup founders, and industry leaders. The festival features keynotes, panel discussions, and demos exploring applied artificial intelligence, machine learning, and responsible AI development within Italy's growing tech ecosystem.
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AI*Festival 2026
International AI festival in Italy connecting the Italian tech ecosystem with global markets through keynotes, demos, and pitch sessions. Attracts AI researchers, enterprise buyers, and investors exploring opportunities in Southern Europe. Valuable for AI startups seeking visibility in the growing Italian AI market and European expansion.
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AI*Festival 2027
AI*Festival returns for its 4th edition 11-12 February 2027 at Superstudio Maxi in Milan. Organised by WMF - We Make Future, the festival is Italy's main international event dedicated to artificial intelligence, connecting companies, big tech, startups, investors and researchers around B2B matchmaking, technical training and open-innovation opportunities.
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Algorithmiq
Quantum software company relocated its global headquarters from Helsinki to Milan in May 2026, marking Italy's largest-ever quantum computing investment round of €18M. Develops quantum algorithms and classical-quantum hybrid software targeting drug discovery and industrial optimisation, with a focus on near-term quantum hardware.
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AWS Summit Milano 2026
Amazon Web Services' free one-day cloud conference at Fiera Milano Rho. Keynotes, technical breakouts, hands-on labs and a partner expo covering generative AI, data, security and serverless for builders, architects and startup founders.
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Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons acquires established digital products — apps, platforms, and SaaS tools — then applies AI-driven transformation to dramatically improve their performance. Founded in 2013 by Luca Ferrari and co-founders, the Milan company now owns Vimeo, Evernote, Eventbrite, WeTransfer, AOL, Remini, and StreamYard, among others. Its portfolio serves over 400 million monthly active users and 7 million paying customers. Targeting a $20 billion US IPO in 2026 with projected adjusted EBITDA of $1.4 billion, Bending Spoons has become Italy's most prominent tech success story and the world's most unusual acquirer.
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Boost Heroes
Boost Heroes is a Milan-based early-stage micro-VC and syndicate founded on 17 July 2015, focusing on seed and early-stage investments across consumer internet, marketplace, impact, and fintech sectors. The firm has made over 57 investments across Europe, North America, and Asia, with portfolio companies including Satispay, Homepal, and GoodBuyAuto. Typical startup valuations at entry range from $1–5 million.
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Codemotion Milan 2026
One of Italy's largest developer conferences, bringing together 2,000+ software engineers for talks on cloud-native, AI/ML, DevOps, and frontend. Strong venue for developer tool startups and engineering employer branding.
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Comune di Milano (Milano Digital Week)
The Municipality of Milan, with implementation partner TIG – The Innovation Group, organises Milano Digital Week, a city-wide festival on digital innovation, AI and smart-city themes. It curates hundreds of largely free events spanning business, technology, digital citizenship, culture and education across the city.
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Cortilia
Cortilia is Italy's leading farm-to-home e-grocery platform, connecting consumers directly with small and medium Italian producers — sourcing fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, and artisan products from vetted farms and delivering across Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont, and six other regions covering 800+ municipalities. Founded in Milan in 2011 by Marco Porcaro, Cortilia has raised €53 million and became a certified B-Corp in 2022 following construction of a LEED Gold-certified green headquarters. Targeting EBITDA breakeven in 2026 and full-year profitability by 2027, the company carries a 2,500-product catalog with a strong focus on sustainability and local supply-chain traceability.
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ETHMilan 2026
Italy's largest Ethereum and Web3 conference, with 2,000+ attendees and 100+ speakers at the Leonardo da Vinci museum. A useful wedge event for web3 and crypto founders targeting the Italian and Southern-European builder community.
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Everli
Everli is Italy's leading online grocery delivery marketplace, connecting shoppers with over 100 supermarket chains — including Lidl, Esselunga, and Carrefour — across 60+ Italian provinces. Founded in 2014, personal shoppers physically select products at partner stores and deliver to customers' homes within two hours. With 237 employees and a 23% take rate, Everli signed a $180 million business combination with Nasdaq-listed SPAC Melar Acquisition Corp in mid-2025, targeting a Nasdaq listing in early 2026. The company secured an additional $10 million in bridge financing ahead of the expected public debut.
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identifAI
identifAI builds AI-powered deepfake and synthetic media detection technology, using 36 proprietary de-generative models to analyze images, videos, and audio for manipulation at pixel-level probabilistic patterns rather than superficial artefacts. Founded in 2024 in Cesena and Milan by cybersecurity veterans Marco Ramilli and Marco Castaldo, the company serves insurers, healthcare providers, HR departments, financial institutions, and government agencies for KYC verification and fraud prevention. Processing millions of checks daily, identifAI has raised €7.2 million (including €5 million led by United Ventures), was named a sample vendor in Gartner's 2026 Emerging Tech report, and counts Experian and KPMG among its clients.
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Il Sole 24 Ore Eventi
Il Sole 24 Ore Eventi is the events arm of Italy's leading business newspaper, organising the Innovation Days roadshow with Confindustria across Italian regions. The series spotlights local entrepreneurship, digital transformation, SMEs and startups through talks, an innovation award and B2B networking.
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Indaco Venture Partners
Founded in 2016 by Davide Turco, Elizabeth Tosto, Antonella Grassigli, and Alvise Bonivento, Indaco Venture Partners SGR is Italy's largest independent venture capital management company, with over €350 million in assets under management across six funds. The firm specialises in proprietary-technology companies at Series A and B, with deep expertise in electronics, robotics, medtech, advanced materials, and digital sectors. Notable portfolio companies include Newronika (adaptive deep brain stimulation), Sibylla Biotech, Almawave, and Codasip; exits include Silicon Biosystems and Directa Plus. Indaco's differentiated focus on hardware-intensive and science-driven startups sets it apart from Italy's mostly software-focused VC landscape.
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Italian Tech Alliance
The Italian Tech Alliance (formerly Italia Startup) is Italy's leading industry association representing the venture capital, startup, and innovation ecosystem. Founded to give the Italian tech community a unified voice, the Alliance brings together venture capital funds, angel investors, startups, scale-ups, and corporate members to advocate for better policy conditions for innovation in Italy. Key focus areas include reforming Italy's 'innovative startup' legal framework, improving tax incentives for VC investment, and attracting international capital to Italian companies. The Alliance publishes research on the state of Italian venture capital, organizes networking events connecting founders with investors, and works with the Italian government on policy initiatives to close the gap between Italy's strong technical talent base and its historically underdeveloped startup financing ecosystem.
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Jet HR
Jet HR is an all-in-one Italian HR and payroll platform designed to eliminate the bureaucratic complexity of managing employees under Italian labour law. Founded in 2023 by Marco Ogliengo and Francesco Scalambrino, the Milan company automates hiring, payroll, shift management, expense reports, and compliance into a single system with dedicated labour law consultants included. Used by over 1,000 Italian companies across hospitality, tech, and manufacturing, Jet HR has raised €41.7 million — including a €25 million round led by US VC Base10 Partners — making it one of Italy's fastest-growing B2B SaaS startups.
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Lexroom
Lexroom is a Milan-based legaltech company founded in 2023 that builds an AI platform for legal professionals, including lawyers, law firms, accountants, notaries, and enterprise legal teams. Its product is designed for civil-law jurisdictions and uses a data-first architecture built on a proprietary database of verified legal sources such as legislation, case law, and regulatory materials, aiming to reduce fabricated citations and unreliable outputs common to general LLM tools. The platform supports legal research on verified sources, document analysis and comparison, custom clause drafting, and Microsoft Word integration. The company states it is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR and AI Act compliant.
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Milano Digital Week 2026
Milano Digital Week is a city-wide festival on digital innovation, AI and smart-city themes, with hundreds of largely free events across business, digital citizenship, technology, culture and education. The 2026 edition runs under the theme "La città generativa" (The Generative City), convening businesses, startups, citizens and institutions across Milan.
