Emilia-Romagna runs between Facebook and Stanford University
Crucial agreement between Bologna and Lombardstreet Ventures and new hub in Menlo Park for the Region, which arrived in Silicon Valley in 2015 for internationalization
The hub of the Emilia-Romagna Region in Silicon Valley, launched in 2015 to support the internationalization of companies, laboratories and startups towards one of the most innovative and dynamic ecosystems in the world, is consolidated thanks to the collaboration with a strategic partner such as Lombardstreet Ventures, a reality present for many years in the Bay Area.
A change of pace made even more urgent by the particular historical moment, characterized by strong instability and uncertainty, which requires a greater push towards innovation and a greater rooting of the Emilia-Romagna ecosystem in the area.
A venture capital fund for the assault on North America
The new collaboration with Lombardstreet Ventures goes in this direction. As a venture capital fund, Lombardstreet Ventures can count on a network of strategic relationships that are complementary to those of ART-ER, which are propaedeutic to increasing development opportunities for the regional ecosystem throughout North America.
The partnership with Lombardstreet Ventures will facilitate the operation of the ART-ER presidium, which will have a new location within the Silicon Valley Italian Hub, opened by Lombardstreet Ventures in May last year to introduce the Italian ecosystem to the values, culture and mindset of the world’s most famous cluster for innovation.
The new presidium of Emilia-Romagna, in its time the first Italian region to land in California, and still the only one, will therefore be in Menlo Park, within a large space located between the headquarters of Facebook and Stanford University and not far from other advanced public territorial entities such as Catalonia.
A lustre of success for businesses, labs and startups
From 2015 to date, more than a hundred companies, startups, universities, students, research centers, Clust-ER, incubators and other regional actors have participated in programs in Silicon Valley, benefiting from the initiatives and relationships developed in the area by the Emilia-Romagna Region through ART-ER.
ART-ER Attractiveness Ricerca Territorio is the consortium company, born from the merger of ASTER and ERVET, to promote the sustainable growth of the region through the development of innovation and knowledge, attractiveness and internationalization of the territorial system of Emilia-Romagna.