L’Alto Adige ha un suo eroe in Silicon Valley. Si chiama Hanns Tappeiner, ha 35 anni ed è il Gustav Thöni delle nuove aziende tecnologiche di San Francisco. Due anni fa, il CEO di Apple Tim Cook gli ha fatto lanciare la startup Anki dal palco della conferenza mondiale degli sviluppatori del colosso di Cupertino. Un onore non da poco – che Tappeiner...

Tracciare una strada per coniugare startup e private equity per sviluppare imprese innovative è tra gli obiettivi principali della visita di Matteo Renzi presso la Silicon Valley.   In quest'occasione viene presentato oggi il caso paradigmatico di Decisyon, ex-startup italiana che ha conquistato i fondi di private equity americani grazie a u...

by Alessandro Piol Celebrate the past in order to look at the future knowing that we can do it: Italy can grow again also thanks to its tech ingenuity.   Here are some moments of the panel discussion "What's next for Italian creativity in technology?" moderated by Maria Teresa Cometto and Riccardo Luna, with: Massimo Banzi, co-founder of th...

by Paddy Agnew   If you know Italy at all, you will know that the Italian university system does not always enjoy a good press. At best, the average Italian student's third-level experience tends to make Ulysses' wanderings and occasional encounters with one-eyed monsters look like a relative dawdle. Huge student numbers (there are approxim...

Italian startup Veve, a food-focused startup that wowed crowds at the Expo Milano 2015, has developed an ultra efficient system for the growth of vegetables in vertical rows that uses aeroponics technology. The technology allows 200 plants to be cultivated in one square meter, the equivalent of a traditional vegetable garden that is 20 square meter...

From May 4th to May 9th, we are hosting VentureOutItaly II, our second one-week NY Market Accelerator program for Italian tech startups (see details from our first program here).   We are very excited for our continued partnership with Italian Business & Investment Initiative, continuing the evolution of the IB&II Spring Symposium fo...

Start up, crescita, innovazione, exit strategy, strumenti e casi di successo, ruolo di istituzioni e grandi aziende sono i temi al centro di "Italy for growth in the USA: the BEST scholarship case & Usa opportunities", il workshop che si terrà mercoledì 9 luglio presso il quartier generale di Radio Dimensione Suono (RDS), a Roma.   L'eve...

If the American Dream has always meant "to make it" on one's own merits, if millions of Italians went to America first for survival and then for success, if the result of the work of our fellow citizens has always been admired in the U.S., the union between Italian entrepreneurs and the United States cannot but constitute an important part of our j...

by Chiara Bussi   Lombardy, Sardinia and Emilia-Romagna: these are the three Italian regions that most attracted capital for setting up innovative start-ups over the past three years, according to AIFI, the Italian Association of Venture Capital. Sardinia's the true surprise, scoring silver: out of €185 million invested in Italy between 201...

Da Londra arriva una bella notizia per chi ama l'arte e gli studi di Leonardo Da Vinci. La Royal Collection Trust di Buckingham Palace ha reso disponibili decine di disegni fatti dal genio italiano e che riguardano lo studio dell'anatomia e del corpo umano. Si tratta di piccole descrizioni, appunti, disegni e rappresentazioni di un mondo che Leonar...