Talent Garden is Europe’s leading digital education provider and coworking network for innovators and tech ecosystem. They offer an edu-tech network, which spans across 12 countries and focuses on data, marketing, design, coding, digital HR and business.

Tecnopolo S.p.A. is a joint stock company established in 1995 by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, which has a 96% participation in it. Tecnopolo Roma promotes the localisation and operation of technologically innovative businesses in two different locations: Tecnopolo Roma Tiburtino, the first technological hub in the city of Rome designed and built by the Tecnopolo company itself; Tecnopolo Roma Castel Romano, acquired in 2008 and currently recognised as a research centre of excellence.

An ever-growing community of currently around 1100 researchers, entrepreneurs, start-ups and students needs to be orchestrated: this is what NOI Ltd. is here for. They manage South Tyrol's innovation district, NOI Techpark, and develop it further. With a lot of networking and a wide range of services, they help to initiate R&D projects, promote new talents and start-ups and make local companies fit and competitive for the future.

A4W is an association composed by business angels who want to invest in female-led startups with high growth potential. Our mission is to bring together our members and the best innovative entrepreneurs, with the aim of early stage investments.

Angels4Impact is a new group of Business Angels born from the merger of Angels for Innovation and Impact Angels Italia. Angels For Innovation was founded in 2015 as an association of Angels of Milan. It was a group of young people, passionate about innovation, startups and scaleup business, interested in investing in new entrepreneurial initiatives with a strong innovative and technological content. Impact Angels was founded in 2017 within Impact Hub Milano. The goal was to create the first group of startup investors interested in impact investing. The mission of the new group A4I is able to identify and support the best startups with high innovative content with a relevant focus on impact.

Smart Attica, in collaboration with the pan-European network of European Digital Innovation Hubs, aims to support SMEs and public sector bodies in their digital transformation journey, providing services based on the hub’s expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, High Performance Computing applications, 5G technology and Cybersecurity.

MITEF Greece runs highly curated programs that aim to inform, connect, coach, and accelerate technology entrepreneurs, helping them to transform their ideas into world-changing companies. They focus primarily on technology-driven ventures, and are very interested in helping deep-tech teams emerging from research labs.

Impact Hub Athens is part of an International Network of social driven professionals and a variety of high impact creative professionals that are dedicated into prototyping the future of business. From social inclusion and social integration to environment and fair trade, the Impact Hub Athens is engaging expertise from its worldwide presence and creating a net of intercultural, high impact community that acts locally and internationally. Acting as a springboard for exploring ideas, sharing knowledge, and gaining access to essential resources and capital, they are creating a powerful ecosystem to support a new type of economy.

ESDALAB DIH is coordinating an extensive network of DIHs spanning across South and Eastern Europe, through which it offers funding opportunities and supports multi-partner cooperation between organizations with complementary experience. It also offers novel services to companies, especially SMEs (including Start-ups) & Slightly Bigger Companies, to support their digital transformation.

The annual innovation and technology competition is an action in the context of the NBG Business Seeds program for supporting innovative entrepreneurship. It takes place annually to provide mentoring, highlight and reward original ideas that will contribute to the development of pioneering systems and applications, based on new technologies, the inclusion of the environmental factor in the design of products and services, the proliferation of online banking, and online transactions and to the promotion of innovation in general, in Greece.

Big Pi is a seed-stage venture capital fund. We focus on deep-tech and science-based innovation. They source deals among entrepreneurs and researchers in Greece and among diaspora Greeks.

Phaistos Investment Fund is an innovative initiative backed by the Greek State and private investors, focusing on tech investment opportunities in the 4th industrial revolution areas facilitated by 5G and relevant technologies. Phaistos aims at fostering the next generation of investments and entrepreneurship, as well as promoting a profitable and sustainable digital technology market in Greece.

Marathon Venture Capital aims to bring together everyone who can enable founders to realize their ambitions. They are network builders as well as company builders.

EquiFund is an initiative created by the Hellenic Republic in cooperation with the European Investment Fund (EIF). It is advised independently by the EIF. By making commitments in professional and independently managed funds, EquiFund aims to strengthen the venture capital market in Greece.

Velocity.Partners is an industry agnostic Venture Capital fund. The mission is to fuel Greek entrepreneurs around the globe to build world-class technology companies. They invest in pre-Seed & Seed stages, typically up to EUR 500K, and follow up next rounds, helping our companies build their team, prove product-market fit, gain market traction and get ready for big-league VCs along the way.

Progress Tech Transfer is an investment fund specialised in sustainable technologies from research of Italian universities and public research organizations, start-ups, spin-offs, and visionary entrepreneurs.

Founded in 2016, today Indaco Venture Partners SGR is the largest independent Italian venture capital asset management company, with a strong specialization in companies that innovate electronics, robotics and new materials, medtech, biotech – pharma and digital.

Primo Ventures is an Italian-based firm focused on early-stage technology venture capital, founded by a team with significant digital experience and entrepreneurial background. They invest in two sectors: digital and space.

CDP Venture Capital – Fondo Nazionale Innovazione aims to make Venture Capital a strategic pillar to Italy's economic growth and innovation, creating the conditions for a comprehensive and sustainable growth of the Italian Venture Capital ecosystem.

Innogest Capital is creating, financing and supporting the growth of new ventures in the digital and tech space. They are focused in identifying companies with global ambitions, and are experienced in helping them to achieve success.

TeamUp is a 7-month programme that finds and matches up brilliant innovators with compatible and complementary profiles. TeamUp provides important tools and support to build your startup including expert guidance, world-class training, mentorship, networking and funding. These new teams will be nurtured to create strong co-founder relationships with aligned purpose and values.

The Business Angels Network Greece aspires to be a dominant means of promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in the country, intervening at the critical stage when new ideas are created and need support to grow. The BANG network of business angels comes to fill an important gap that exists today in the financing and support of start-up innovative businesses in Greece. Its role is to bring its members into contact with businesses, which submit investment proposals for financing in order to strengthen business activity. Members share their experience and, by expanding the financing opportunities of businesses, contribute to growth and employment.

HeBAN understands itself as a link between promising start-up companies and private investors, striving to increase the public awareness of early stage funding possibilities, giving young ventures better visibility and access to private equity funding. For the success of Business Angel investing in young growth ventures, a crucial factor is the achievement of the appropriate investment readiness of these start-up companies. HeBAN trusts to contribute with its activities also to the increase of maturity of young ventures.

Italian Angels for Growth (IAG) is a network of business angels, entrepreneurs and companies that share expertise, capital and commitment to support innovation and entrepreneurship. By investing and supporting startups, IAG works every day to build a future where innovation receives the necessary resources to make a positive impact on society.

JoTTO is the Joint Technology Transfer Office of School IMT Advanced Studies Lucca, Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa. JoTTO was constituted on October the 1st, 2015 when the three universities signed a decree for its activation. Since 1st April 2017 also the School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia has joined JoTTO. While the International School for Advanced Studies, SISSA and Gran Sasso Science Institute GSSI of L'Aquila joined JoTTO in 2020. The goal is to provide the six schools with a common service of exploitation of research across various scientific fields and about the Third University Mission.