Italy Smart&Start Italia
Funds Italian innovation teams with support and grants for early ventures in digital and industrial technology.
Smart&Start Italia is a national soft-loan program administered by Invitalia, Italy's national agency for investment attraction and enterprise development, acting on behalf of the Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy (MIMIT). The program is designed to support innovative startups incorporated in Italy that are developing technological products, services, or processes with meaningful innovat…
Smart&Start Italia offers concessional soft loans of €100,000–€1,500,000 to Italian-incorporated innovative startups developing technology products or services across all sectors.
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