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Top 25 Startup accelerators based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 314 startup accelerators headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 2,803 professional contacts across them, including 440 with verified work emails. Milano is the largest hub.
This list covers startup accelerators headquartered in Italy, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest startup accelerators based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Siamo Startup Geeks: startup nata per formare, connettere e far crescere imprenditori consapevoli, e supportare le aziende in un percorso di trasformazione che parta dalle idee…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PoliHub is the Innovation Park & Startup Accelerator of Politecnico di Milano.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Carica delle 101 is a non-profit initiative born in 2020 from the enthusiasm and tenacity of 100 women + the creator, Giovannella Condò, to accompany and support the Start-ups…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Apple Developer Academy is a partnership between the University of Napoli Federico II and Apple.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are now ready to take the next step to create a launchpad with significant impact on the creation of new startups in Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cariplo Factory è un hub di innovazione che attiva una filiera del talento in grado di includere percorsi di formazione esperienziale, programmi di accompagnamento…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entrepreneurship Club Polimi: the first community of Politecnico's entrepreneurial minds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “B Heroes è un ecosistema di iniziative a supporto della crescita delle startup italiane più innovative per aiutarle ad affrontare con successo il mercato e per creare un nuovo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gli Spazi Attivi sono pensati per riunire in un unico luogo i servizi offerti dalla Regione Lazio a imprese, startup e cittadini sul mondo imprenditoriale e makers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bio4Dreams è un incubatore certificato dal MIMIT, nato nel 2017, a capitale totalmente privato e dedicato allo sviluppo di startup innovative in fase very early-stage nel settore…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sviluppiamo progetti per le aziende e acceleriamo le start up grazie alla contaminazione di competenze in uno spazio di co-working attraverso il trasferimento tecnologico e il…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At United Ventures we look for daring entrepreneurs willing to develop innovative products and technologies, who acknowledge the challenges and risks of our times and still crave…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Digital Magics, listed on Euronext Growth Milan (symbol: DM), is the business incubator that provides services and funds to innovative startups and SMEs in the Tech world, for the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DBridge is the accelerator for digital ecosystem implementation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hi!Founders Startup Community is an italian telegram community dedicated to early stage founders and community-led growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Qube è un incubatore d'impresa che dal 2013 si occupa di sviluppo imprenditoriale nel territorio, attraverso attività di progettazione, marketing strategico, project…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “G-Factor is a reactive environment whose aim is to support new entrepreneurs and researchers with high entrepreneurial potential to become companies able to successfully establish…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SprintX è l’Incubatore certificato di The Hub Bari, situato in Puglia, che aiuta le startup a validare e lanciare un business da zero.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Incubatore certificato Mimit e B Corp.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Endeavor Italy leads the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Italy since 2016.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SEI è un creatore di Hub di Innovazione, volto a diffondere la cultura imprenditoriale e la creazione d'impresa come motore di rilancio per tutte quelle aree interne d'Italia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Futurea è una Challenger Company costruita sulle esigenze di investitori e PMI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Apical è la casa dove le persone e le organizzazioni che fanno attivismo e innovazione sociale in Italia si incontrano e crescono insieme.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dall’esperienza di chi ha fatto impresa da 60 anni, Supernova Hub mette in campo l’expertise acquisita in ambito di logistica ed e-commerce.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “InnoVits is an organisation of passionate managers and entrepreneurs that collaborate to foster innovation and create opportunities for professional growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: startup accelerators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names startup accelerators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of startup accelerators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name startup accelerators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Startup accelerators based in Italy at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 314 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among startup accelerators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Italy whose own description of what they do matches “startup accelerators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names startup accelerators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among startup accelerators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 440 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Startup accelerators by metro
- Startup accelerators in Milano40
- Startup accelerators in Milan33
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names startup accelerators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many startup accelerators are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 314 startup accelerators headquartered in Italy as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Startup Geeks, headquartered in Mantova, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most startup accelerators?
Milano leads with 40 headquartered companies, followed by Milan (33) and Roma (19).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 440 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 314 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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