Pocket-sized laser capable of powering sensors that go to the Moon, two-seater helicopters with ballistic parachutes, aluminum sheets mounted on the tallest antennas in the world, at NASA, mechanical components from the Emilia Motor Valley ready to take off into Space.
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Italian excellence, even in the most technologically advanced sectors, is made up of a myriad of small and very small companies, which never cease to amaze for the quality of workmanship and the ability to find and adapt always new solutions depending on market demand. Even the most demanding markets, such as the US, the homeland par excellence of innovation and large capital.
The mission in Silicon Valley
And it is precisely to showcase this excellence, this made in Italy with very high technological content, and to support its growth and development in the US market, that Intesa Sanpaolo’s mission in Silicon Valley dedicated to Italian companies was born. A program now in its third edition this year, carried out in collaboration with Innovit, a company based in San Francisco, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation through the Ice Agency (in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Washington and the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco), which since October 2022 has been managed by the Giacomo Brodolini Foundation and Harmonic Innovation Xcelerator, (incubator and accelerator of Harmonic Innovation Group).
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Dedicated to 12 startups in the first year (in 2024) and to 12 innovative SMEs last year, this year the program focused on 12 small and medium-sized companies in the aerospace & robotics supply chain, clients of the bank and selected together with Innovit.
For a week, at the beginning of September, these companies participated in over 100 training and business sessions, including 85 one-to-one B2B meetings and 23 classroom lessons with 43 mentors from the Innovit network (which in four years has developed a network of over a thousand professionals).
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