For the 5th session of Venture Rise, we had the honor of hosting Matteo Elli, Founder & Managing Partner at pariter partners and founder of RobIT, Italy’s first national tech transfer hub dedicated to robotics and automation.
Throughout this rich and highly interactive session, Matteo gave participants an inside look into the Italian startup ecosystem, highlighting how Italy is becoming one of Europe’s growing hubs for deep tech, robotics, AI, automation, medtech, agritech, and industrial innovation.
The session explored:
🔹 How Italy structured its innovation ecosystem through incubators, accelerators, tech transfer hubs, venture capital funds, and research centers
🔹 The rise of deep tech investments and why sectors like AI, robotics, climate tech, aerospace, and biotech are attracting increasing attention from investors
🔹 How universities and research centers collaborate with startups to transform scientific research into real scalable businesses
🔹 The role of CDP Venture Capital and national programs that helped create more than 200 deep tech startups in just a few years
🔹 What investors actually look for in early-stage startups beyond revenue and financial projections
🔹 The biggest challenges founders face when building breakthrough technologies and bringing them to market
🔹 🇩🇿🇮🇹 Collaboration opportunities between the Algerian and Italian ecosystems
🔹 Building bridges between startups, investors, universities, and innovation hubs across both countries
One of the most valuable takeaways from the session was understanding that innovation is not only about building advanced technology, but about building technologies the market truly needs.
A huge thank you to Matteo Elli for sharing his expertise, insights, and vision, and to all the entrepreneurs, students, researchers, and startup founders who joined us and made the discussion so engaging.
