RoboIT
RoboIT is the first National Technology Transfer Hub launched by CDP Venture Capital in collaboration with Pariter Partners and created together with the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa with the involvement of the University of Naples Federico II, the University of Verona and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, ones of the major research centers in Italy specialized in the robotics sector.
The goal is to promote the birth of a new generation of companies, the deep-tech startups that arise from research centers and universities and to support researchers in the creation of future national and international champions of innovation.
RoboIT focuses on the enhancement of research results in the fields of robotics and industrial automation, involving the most important Italian Research Centers specialized on the subject, through a new investment model that supports the entire supply chain of the transfer of an innovative technology to the market with:
the development of the PoC, through a process of de-risking and technology transfer for the technical and business feasibility study and the definition of a technological development plan;
the creation of the company, stimulating the project through a path of entrepreneurial strengthening and market validation up to industrialization;
national and international marketing thanks to the further contribution of sectoral venture capital funds able to follow the growth of the best startups on the global market.
The support activities for the creation of new companies starting from the technologies developed by Research will be provided by Pariter Partners together with other specialized partners at IIT, the Hub of the National Pole. The activities relating to the development of POCs will instead be implemented in the individual participating universities.
Why partecipate?
Who we are looking for
Research Teams
Established Companies
- Teams or Startups established in Italy
- A solid and consistent IP background and proven research experience
- Vision to change the world through robotics
- Hardware, services or components that are radically changing robotics
- Ability and resilience to initiate a transformation process: from the laboratory to the launch of a business
- A minimum level of technological preparation (TRL) of 3-4 is preferable (but not mandatory)
- Products, services and solutions aimed at a large and global market: we want teams that think big!
INVESTMENT FOCUS
- COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS AND HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION SOLUTIONS
- Service Robot (Agricolture, Aerospace, Logistic...)
- Surgical Robots
- Industrial Robots
- Exoskeletons & Robotic Rehabilitation systems
- AI & Software Process Automation
- AGV and AMR
- Sensors
- Flexible Robots
- Humanoid Robotics
COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS AND HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION SOLUTIONS
SERVICE ROBOT (AGRICOLTURE, AEROSPACE, LOGISTIC...)
SURGICAL ROBOTS
INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS
EXOSKELETONS & ROBOTIC REHABILITATION SYSTEMS
AI & SOFTWARE PROCESS AUTOMATION
AGV AND AMR
SENSORS
FLEXIBLE ROBOTS
HUMANOID ROBOTICS
PORTFOLIO
the program
RoboIT’s goal is to provide economic resources and value-added services to increase the level of “investability” of research projects and emerging technologies developed in the field of robotics in Italy. RoboIT’s investment program is structured in two phases:
- Tech Incubation → pre-seed investment program and technological support designed for the development of PoC, specific for research teams (pre-company phase) hosted or operating in one of RoboIT’s partner universities / research centers;
- Business Creation → seed investment program dedicated to teams that have successfully completed the tech incubation phase but also spin-off companies and startups not belonging to partner universities.
01 tech incubation
Concept and Prototyping
9-12 months program in collaboration with:
- A1 POC Programming
- A2 Team Building
- A3 Patents & IP
- A4 Customer Discovery
- A5 Company Starter Kit
02 business creation
Validation and Manufacturing
9-12 months program
- B1 Becoming Founders
- B2 Planning & Human Resources
- B3 Fundraising
- B4 Use of EU Horizon funds
- B5 Business Modeling
- B6 Advanced Patent Strategy
- B7 Regulatory
F.A.Q.
PARTNERS
initiative by
together with
Pariter Partners is an investment holding focused on Deep Tech investment opportunities. Pariter Partners is the creator of ScienceLab, the main Italian investment and accelerator program dedicated to Research Centers and scientists. In RoboIT is focused on selection, scouting and acceleration activity and is Investor in RoboIT. Pariter is providing capital and management of the overall activities of RoboIT.
scientific promoters
RoboIT’s main objective is to valorize the results of the scientific and technological research to support the establishment of startups conceived in the laboratories of the best Italian Universities and Research Centers of excellence, which are partners of this initiative, such as the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, Università degli Studi di Verona and Università di Napoli Federico II.
initiative by
together with
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER
corporate partner
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INSTITUTIONAL PARTNER
corporate partner
tech advisor
Teams selected by RoboIT to participate in the program are directly supported by an exclusive group of Tech Advisors composed of leading international industry experts in the technology sector and industrial manufacturing.
News
CDP venture capital SGR invests 40 million euro in roboit, the first national technology transfer hub dedicated to robotics in italy
RoboIT is the first of the National Technology Transfer Hubs that CDP Venture Capital SGR will finance through the Technology Transfer Fund to support the emergence of new start-ups created within universities and leading research centres.
RoboIt: the first national technology transfer hub dedicated to robotics
An opportunity to bridge the gap between research and the market, with the aim of accelerating innovation in strategic sectors for our country. We discussed it with Claudia Pingue, Head of the Technology Transfer Fund.