The Italy Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Milan 2025 program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 3 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Italy's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Italy program:
- Shopping Party - Reinventing fashion shopping as a shared social experience by allowing friends to try on clothes at home together, reducing returns and making fashion more sustainable and fun.
- Replate - Providing restaurants with interactive 3D digital menus that reduce costs, eliminate food waste, and enhance customer engagement.
- Dora - Offering a platform that connects busy professionals with trusted, local workers who can quickly complete small but important household tasks.
The Milan 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
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Italy Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Italy Founder Institute: Alberto Martellini (Founder Institute Innovation Partner, Vision to Life), Amadeus Samson, Ariona Krasniqi ( Local Leader – Mentor Network, Founder Institute), Azra Gurbuz (Local Leader - Marketing & Community Lead, FI), Giovanni Salvi (Data Scientist, Serenis). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Italy that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Milan 2025 program was supported by some of Italy's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Italy’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over 2BN.
After Graduation, the new Italy Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Italy Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/italy.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 2BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
