{"id":9314,"date":"2026-10-01T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2026-10-28T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:23:42","slug":"celebrating-4-years-of-innovit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2026\/10\/celebrating-4-years-of-innovit\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 4 years of INNOVIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, <strong>INNOVIT \u2013 Italian Innovation and Culture Hub<\/strong> opened its doors in San Francisco with a clear mission: to build stronger connections between the Italian and US tech ecosystems and bring Italian innovation closer to Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later, the numbers tell part of the story:<\/p>\n<p>23 programs \u00b7 541 companies \u00b7 1,702 founders \u00b7 1,114 mentors \u00b7 1,852 mentoring sessions<\/p>\n<p>But beyond the numbers, INNOVIT has become a meeting point for entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, institutions and the wider tech community \u2014 a place where ideas, talent and opportunities from Italy and the Bay Area come together and create new synergies.<\/p>\n<p>INNOVIT also meant a rebranding effort to go beyond the many clich\u00e9s and promote Italy as an emerging startup nation, with a solid innovation ecosystem, a large pool of talent, leading R&amp;D and academic institutions, growing venture capital resources, and dedicated regulatory frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>Four years of building bridges, creating connections and opening new opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>And this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed to INNOVIT throughout this time, in the Bay Area and in Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years ago, INNOVIT \u2013 Italian Innovation and Culture Hub opened its doors in San Francisco with a clear mission: to build stronger connections between the Italian and US tech ecosystems and bring Italian innovation closer to Silicon Valley. Four years later, the numbers tell part of the story: 23 programs \u00b7 541 companies \u00b7 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9317,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions\/9317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conssanfrancisco.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}