{"id":146508,"date":"2025-06-26T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:49:14","slug":"start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A-Road, Growth Capital&#8217;s acceleration and fundraising programme dedicated to scaleups, <strong>unveils the names of the five companies selected to participate in the sixth batch: BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess, Wordlift.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<p>The scaleups join those selected in the five previous A-Road batches: AgoraLabs, Barberino&#8217;s, Cosmico, Cubbit, Freedome, GoVolt, HiNelson, Holifya, Homepal, Indigo.ai, Karrycar, Kippy, PayDo, Spiagge.it, Startric, TextYess, Timeflow, Truescreen, Tundr, Wetacoo and Yocab\u00e8. <\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to welcome BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess and WordLift to A-Road. With the support of our mentors and partners and with the goal of reaching the Series A round in a short period of time, these scaleups have the opportunity to accelerate their development and follow a growth path that will lead them to significantly above-average results in their respective sectors, as demonstrated by the results achieved by the companies that participated in the programme in its first four years,&#8221; Fabio Mondini de Focatiis, founding partner, Growth Capital, said in a note. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scaleups<\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>BonusX fondata da Giovanni Pizza e Fabio Pinci, BonusX \u00e8 una piattaforma AI-driven che rivoluziona l&#8217;accesso ai benefici pubblici, eliminando la burocrazia<\/strong>. Con algoritmi avanzati e dataset proprietari, permette di scoprire e ottenere bonus sociali, fiscali e finanziari in modo semplice ed efficiente. Andrea Zocchi, managing director di Deliveroo Italia, accompagner\u00e0 BonusX nel suo percorso di crescita in qualit\u00e0 di CEO e mentor del programma.   <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Ciao Elsa, founded by Anna Vinci, Marco Agnoletto and Alessandro Zanchetton, is Italy&#8217;s first pension tech company. <\/strong>Initially conceived as an editorial channel, Ciao Elsa aims to make supplementary pensions simple and accessible to everyone and, from September 2024, to help people choose the right pension fund thanks to Italy&#8217;s first online pension fund comparison tool. Milena Mondini de Focatiis, Group CEO of Admiral, will accompany Ciao Elsa on its growth journey.  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Founded by Lorenzo Benedetti, Francesco Morgan Bono and Luca Radicioni, Displaid develops solutions for the monitoring and management of bridges and viaducts. <\/strong>Using smart sensors and AI, the platform enables infrastructure managers to make timely decisions for predictive maintenance, making infrastructure safer and more efficient. Duccio Vitali, CEO of Alkemy, will accompany Displaid on its growth path.  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>WithLess founded by Gianluca Treu and Thomas Alisi, WithLess is a procure-to-pay platform that helps companies manage payments and automate accounting through artificial intelligence. <\/strong>Thanks to its technology, companies can gain greater visibility and control over the entire liability cycle, reducing costs and manual labour. Paola Bonomo, member of the investment committee at NEVA and non-executive director at TIM, AXA and FAAC, will accompany WithLess on its growth path.  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>WordLift Founded by Andrea Volpini, David Riccitelli and Francesco Scavelli, WordLift is a platform that harnesses AI to improve the discovery of online content. <\/strong>Its AI-driven discovery suite helps brands build semantic knowledge graphs, enabling them to reach, engage and convert audiences strategically, with a strong focus on security and data ownership. Alessandro Petazzi, CEO of Lastminute.com, will accompany WordLift on its growth path. <\/p>\n\n<p>The selected scaleups (pictured are the teams of the five in the sixth batch) will access an initial investment of <strong>EUR 200,000 from Growth Engine, a venture capital investment holding company with a pre-seed and seed focus founded by Michele Appendino, Marco Ariello, Andrea Marangione and Fabio Mondini de Focatiis,<\/strong> venture capital professionals with a portfolio of over 45 investees. In addition, they will be able to receive up to an additional EUR 300,000 from co-investors, with priority given to the programme&#8217;s CEOs and mentors, in order to reach the Series A round with the early commitment of professional investors.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The scale-ups will receive ongoing one-to-one support from a dedicated mentor who, drawing on his or her consolidated experience in growing highly successful companies quickly, will accompany them throughout the acceleration process. The programme&#8217;s CEOs and mentors include: Marco Ariello (ex-chairman Moleskine), Paola Bonomo (Investment committee member in NEVA and non-executive director in TIM, AXA, FAAC), Micol Fornaroli (industrial advisor EQT), Tommaso Gamaleri (group executive VP Younited), Milena Mondini de Focatiis (Group CEO of Admiral), Alessandro Petazzi (CEO Lastminute.com), Duccio Vitali (CEO of Alkemy) and Andrea Zocchi (managing director Deliveroo Italia).  <\/p>\n\n<p>The programme includes training workshops, professional services and ad-hoc consultancy from partners: McKinsey &amp; Company, Amazon Web Services, Legance, Carter&amp;Benson, Simon &amp; Kucher, Sisvel, Studio Notai Associati Ricci e Radaelli, Studio CS. <\/p>\n\n<p>Finally, the programme ensures fundraising support: Growth Capital will provide a customised approach by identifying the most suitable investors and investment structure and minimising the timeframe to reach the Series A round quickly. (<em>photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/benedetta-pitscheider-49bb4425\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Benedetta Pitscheider<\/a><\/em>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five start-ups in the new edition of the Growth Capital programme are BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess, Wordlift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":146506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142],"tags":[1352,1137,1323,1145],"companies":[2426],"journalist":[1518],"class_list":["post-146508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vc-voice","tag-acceleration","tag-italy-en","tag-scaleup-en","tag-venture-capital-en-2","companies-growth-capital-en","journalist-editorial-staff-en"],"featured_sizes_urls":{"thumbnail":{"src":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp","width":150,"height":103,"crop":false,"srcset":false,"alt":"scaleup a-road"},"large":{"src":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp","width":1024,"height":704,"crop":false,"srcset":false,"alt":"scaleup a-road"},"2048x2048":{"src":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp","width":1274,"height":876,"crop":false,"srcset":false,"alt":"scaleup a-road"}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The five start-ups in the new edition of the Growth Capital programme are BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess, Wordlift\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The five start-ups in the new edition of the Growth Capital programme are BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess, Wordlift\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Startupbusiness.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-26T14:08:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-09T09:49:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1274\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"876\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Emil Abirascid\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@emilabirascid\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emil Abirascid\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Emil Abirascid\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4e2760db2cb7ca47d635ea3d8d8486dd\"},\"headline\":\"Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-26T14:08:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-09T09:49:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":765,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp\",\"keywords\":[\"acceleration\",\"italy\",\"Scaleup\",\"venture capital\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Vc Voice\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/\",\"name\":\"Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-26T14:08:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-09T09:49:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4e2760db2cb7ca47d635ea3d8d8486dd\"},\"description\":\"The five start-ups in the new edition of the Growth Capital programme are BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess, Wordlift\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\\\/146508\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/06\\\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp\",\"width\":1274,\"height\":876,\"caption\":\"scaleup a-road\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Startupbusiness.it\",\"description\":\"May the Force be with you!\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4e2760db2cb7ca47d635ea3d8d8486dd\",\"name\":\"Emil Abirascid\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84e46190ac811c9c62650621ceca8f65c1e967d6b06e6352fe183145dba0d7e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84e46190ac811c9c62650621ceca8f65c1e967d6b06e6352fe183145dba0d7e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/84e46190ac811c9c62650621ceca8f65c1e967d6b06e6352fe183145dba0d7e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Emil Abirascid\"},\"description\":\"Emil Abirascid (\u30a8\u30df\u30fc\u30eb\u30fb\u30a2\u30d3\u30e9\u30b7\u30c3\u30c9), giornalista, fondatore e direttore di Startupbusiness, il primo magazine sull\u2019ecosistema startup e innovazione italiano. Co-fondatore di Designtech, l\u2019hub di innovazione che avvicina il mondo del design con quello della tecnologia. Advisor di Austrian Business Agency, Emil Banca, Fondazione Symbola, Fondazione Quadrans. Partecipa regolarmente a incontri, convegni, conferenze dedicate all\u2019ecosistema dell\u2019innovazione. E\u2019 stato co-organizzatore degli Italian Innovation Day and Series che si sono svolti dal dal 2016 al 2020 nelle citt\u00e0 di Tokyo in Giappone, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra in Australia e Singapore e co-organizzatore dell\u2019Italy India Innovation Day di AIICP 2021 e 2022. Ha curato il volume \u2018L\u2019innovazione che non ti aspetti. Contesti e visioni per l\u2019impresa\u2019 , l\u2019edizione italiana di \u2018La startup digitale, guida pratica step by step\u2019 e ha scritto la prefazione all\u2019edizione italiana de \u2018La quarta era\u2019 di Byron Reese, ed \u00e8 co-autore di \u2018Cosa e Dove: strategie digitali di ricerca del lavoro\u2019, tutti editi da FrancoAngeli. In passato \u00e8 stato curatore di StartupDigest Italy, coordinatore scientifico del Forum per la Ricerca della Provincia Autonoma di Trento, board member di TechChill Milano advisor di di ScaleIT , ha collaborato con Il Sole 24 Ore \u00e8 stato direttore di Innov\u2019azione, bimestrale edito da Apsti, ha collaborato con Corriere Innovazione ed \u00e8 stato presidente del comitato di selezione del Premio Marzotto e advisor di Cetif-Universit\u00e0 Cattolica Milano.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.abirascid.com\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/emilabirascid\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/emilabirascid\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.startupbusiness.it\\\/en\\\/author\\\/emil-abirascid\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups","description":"The five start-ups in the new edition of the Growth Capital programme are BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess, Wordlift","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups","og_description":"The five start-ups in the new edition of the Growth Capital programme are BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess, Wordlift","og_url":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/","og_site_name":"Startupbusiness.it","article_published_time":"2025-06-26T14:08:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-07-09T09:49:14+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1274,"height":876,"url":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Emil Abirascid","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@emilabirascid","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Emil Abirascid","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/"},"author":{"name":"Emil Abirascid","@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/4e2760db2cb7ca47d635ea3d8d8486dd"},"headline":"Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups","datePublished":"2025-06-26T14:08:20+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-09T09:49:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/"},"wordCount":765,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp","keywords":["acceleration","italy","Scaleup","venture capital"],"articleSection":["Vc Voice"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/","url":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/","name":"Start of the sixth batch of A-Road, the accelerator for scaleups","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp","datePublished":"2025-06-26T14:08:20+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-09T09:49:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/4e2760db2cb7ca47d635ea3d8d8486dd"},"description":"The five start-ups in the new edition of the Growth Capital programme are BonusX, Ciao Elsa, Displaid, WithLess, Wordlift","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/start-of-the-sixth-batch-of-a-road-the-accelerator-for-scaleups\/146508\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sesto-batch-a-road.webp","width":1274,"height":876,"caption":"scaleup a-road"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/","name":"Startupbusiness.it","description":"May the Force be with you!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/4e2760db2cb7ca47d635ea3d8d8486dd","name":"Emil Abirascid","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84e46190ac811c9c62650621ceca8f65c1e967d6b06e6352fe183145dba0d7e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84e46190ac811c9c62650621ceca8f65c1e967d6b06e6352fe183145dba0d7e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/84e46190ac811c9c62650621ceca8f65c1e967d6b06e6352fe183145dba0d7e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Emil Abirascid"},"description":"Emil Abirascid (\u30a8\u30df\u30fc\u30eb\u30fb\u30a2\u30d3\u30e9\u30b7\u30c3\u30c9), giornalista, fondatore e direttore di Startupbusiness, il primo magazine sull\u2019ecosistema startup e innovazione italiano. Co-fondatore di Designtech, l\u2019hub di innovazione che avvicina il mondo del design con quello della tecnologia. Advisor di Austrian Business Agency, Emil Banca, Fondazione Symbola, Fondazione Quadrans. Partecipa regolarmente a incontri, convegni, conferenze dedicate all\u2019ecosistema dell\u2019innovazione. E\u2019 stato co-organizzatore degli Italian Innovation Day and Series che si sono svolti dal dal 2016 al 2020 nelle citt\u00e0 di Tokyo in Giappone, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra in Australia e Singapore e co-organizzatore dell\u2019Italy India Innovation Day di AIICP 2021 e 2022. Ha curato il volume \u2018L\u2019innovazione che non ti aspetti. Contesti e visioni per l\u2019impresa\u2019 , l\u2019edizione italiana di \u2018La startup digitale, guida pratica step by step\u2019 e ha scritto la prefazione all\u2019edizione italiana de \u2018La quarta era\u2019 di Byron Reese, ed \u00e8 co-autore di \u2018Cosa e Dove: strategie digitali di ricerca del lavoro\u2019, tutti editi da FrancoAngeli. In passato \u00e8 stato curatore di StartupDigest Italy, coordinatore scientifico del Forum per la Ricerca della Provincia Autonoma di Trento, board member di TechChill Milano advisor di di ScaleIT , ha collaborato con Il Sole 24 Ore \u00e8 stato direttore di Innov\u2019azione, bimestrale edito da Apsti, ha collaborato con Corriere Innovazione ed \u00e8 stato presidente del comitato di selezione del Premio Marzotto e advisor di Cetif-Universit\u00e0 Cattolica Milano.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.abirascid.com\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emilabirascid","https:\/\/x.com\/emilabirascid"],"url":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/author\/emil-abirascid\/"}]}},"author_name":"Emil Abirascid","categories_names":["Vc Voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146702,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146508\/revisions\/146702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146508"},{"taxonomy":"companies","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies?post=146508"},{"taxonomy":"journalist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journalist?post=146508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}