Business opportunities and promotions
To improve the commercial positioning of your startup or SME, Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center can offer you business opportunities with potentially interested companies and corporates.
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Selection criteria
Startups and innovative SMEs
The basic requirement is to be a startup or duly registered innovative SME.


TRL 7 minimum level
The minimum level of technological maturity required is TRL 7: to have implemented a working prototype in the operating environment.


B2B, B2B2C
The technologies must be addressed to companies or producers selling to the end customer.


Track record
The startup must prove it satisfies at least one of the following requirements: to have projects underway, to have a product/technology on the market, to have received investment, to actively have a patent filed, to have acquired clients.


Areas monitored
Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center monitors and anticipates trends, selecting the innovative companies in the most frequently requested sectors by the current market and those with the best prospects for growth.
Agrifood
- AI to strengthen production dynamics
- Software-as-a-Service solutions for production management
- IoT
- Sustainability: sustainable packaging, scrap and waste recycling, new solutions for pesticides and fertilizers


Digital & AI
- phygital customer experience
- marketing automation
- Artificial Intelligence and data science
- omnichannel
- back-end technologies
- social commerce and live streaming shopping
- sustainability: logistics, shipping, new packaging
- big data
- customer experience


Energy
- smart grid
- smart building e smart Home
- energy storage, capture and transformation of CO2
- renewable sources
- digital technologies, ICT, cybersecurity, data analytics and smart manufacturing, as extra- sector development areas.


Industry 4.0
- advanced robotics (autonomous robots, collaborative robots , mobile robots, cloud robotics, etc)
- Internet of everything
- digital twin e machine vision
- additive manufacturing
- big data e analytics


Sustainability & Materials
Innovative and sustainable materials in the fields of:
- construction
- cosmetics
- textiles/fashion
- food

