It’s a big day for Italy today, as payments platform Scalapay’s $497m Series B gives the country its first unicorn since the dotcom boom. Scalapay’s Series B comes just five months after its Tiger-led Series A last September, which pushed up its valuation after its seed round in January 2021. It launched in 2019. Scalapay says its payment volumes...
READ MOREOrange Fiber has been announced as the winner of the second edition of Vogue YOOX Challenge – The Future of Responsible Fashion scouting projects. Orange Fiber is an Italian company that has patented and produces sustainable fabrics from citrus fruit by-products. Established in Catania in 2014, it creates high quality fabrics for the fashion-luxury...
READ MOREThe Italian touring exhibit, Created in Italy – An Aptitude for the Impossible, will make its first overseas appearance at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, in the new INNOVIT – Italian Innovation and Culture Hub. The exhibit, which focuses on the landscape of Italian industry, features some of the most outstanding examples of new It...
READ MOREWith the mission to give as many people as possible the chance to learn and boost their professional development, Talent Garden has acquired Hyper Island and with vision to become Europe’s leading digital education provider. This new deal will address the digital skills gap across Europe, creating programmes at 20 different campuses and online for...
READ MORENational Association of Young Innovators, the leading Italian organization that promotes innovation and digital, and Great Product (GP), a project development company that builds Italian and European companies for success in finance and marketing in the United States IS, announced a strategic collaboration to develop and grow Italian startups in th...
READ MOREItaly's Brembo (BRBI.MI) said on Monday it would open its first high technology lab in California's Silicon Valley to accelerate the company's digitisation, one of the key objectives of a plan announced in September. Brembo's 'Inspiration Lab' will focus on strengthening the company's expertise in software development, data science and artificial i...
READ MOREThe list of Italians who hold here in Italy institutional positions of collaboration with the United States is not very long. We have interviewed almost all of them over the years, and today we host one of them, who is also a close personal friend of mine. Andrea Gumina is the President of Amerigo - Intercultural Exchange Program Alumni Association...
READ MORERecent changes to the Italy Investor Visa amounts required (also referred to as the Italy Golden Visa Program) opens up a relevant and exciting new opportunity. The significant reduction from €500,000 to €250,000 will favorably allow more non-EU investors to enjoy Italy, along with Visa-free travel throughout Europe's Schengen Area. You can be eli...
READ MOREGoldsmith Johannes Gutenberg may have invented the movable-type printing press around 1450 in Meinz, Germany to create his monumental Bibles, but Venice is where the Printing Revolution began by giving the nascent industry a major push and changing men’s lives. The Republic of Venice soon earned a reputation for being the cradle of the new technolo...
READ MOREVerona, Italy. WeTaste.Wine was born among the rows of the Veronese hills, a startup specialized in wine tasting options, only produced by small Italian wineries. The purpose of this new digital company is to explore and share the ‘Italy of wine’, focusing on local winemaking realities, through a simple platform aimed at an international audience....
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