Smart & Start Italia
Funds innovative Italian startups with early financing to develop new products in AI, biotech, and digital fields.
Smart & Start Italia is a permanently open incentive programme administered by Invitalia on behalf of MIMIT to support the creation and growth of high-tech innovative startups across the whole of Italy. The measure finances business plans worth EUR 100,000 to EUR 1,500,000 covering tangible and intangible assets, technological services, marketing, research-collaboration costs, and personnel employ…
Innovative-startup business plans EUR 100,000 - 1,500,000 for tech-content products/services, AI/blockchain/IoT, or commercialization of public/private research outputs.
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