Our goal is to foster a sustainable and global entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our programs and activities focus on bringing startups and corporates together to enhance the growth of all parties, and to bring new value to enterprises through innovation.
Mind the Bridge is an international team with experience and a presence in multiple ecosystems.
Mind the Bridge has been running a non-profit foundation since 2007. It was established by Marco Marinucci with the support of a group of entrepreneurs passionate about entrepreneurship education.
Mind the Bridge was established in 2007 by then Googler, Marco Marinucci. Marco now serves as the company’s CEO with Italian university Professor Alberto Onetti as its chairman.
The Scaleup Summits are highly curated, invitation only, formats where international corporates can explore the world’s most interesting tech hotspots, benchmark their open innovation approaches, spot technology trends, and meet targeted scaleups offering solutions to their innovation challenges
By Serena Orizi|2024-09-24T19:09:32+02:00September 24th, 2024|General|
Global innovation advisory firm Mind the Bridge with the support of Crunchbase released the Report "The End of the Startup M&A Era?" in San Francisco at the opening of the Scaleup Summit Silicon Valley. The Report outlines key data showing a significant decline in startup M&A activity over recent years, raising concerns about its impact on the Venture Capital industry, in Silicon Valley and globally.
By Serena Orizi|2024-07-31T18:37:20+02:00June 3rd, 2024|General|
The Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC), a project of the Connected Places Catapult focusing on introducing innovative solutions through procurement in the public sector, is advancing open innovation and fresh thinking. To boost this initiative, IPEC has teamed up with the “Startup Ecosystem Stars (SES)” to present a special prize at the 2024 Awards scheduled for December 6th in Paris, co-organised by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the global open innovation platform Mind the Bridge, in collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission, and with support from Microsoft.
By Serena Orizi|2023-10-04T18:51:37+02:00October 4th, 2023|General|
Within the thriving AI ecosystem of Silicon Valley, Generative AI startups are monopolizing the VC investments by attracting about 40% ($11.9B out of $33.5B in the first six months of 2023). According to the new “Tech Scaleup Silicon Valley 2023 Report: The Rise of Generative AI” by Mind the Bridge with the support of Crunchbase presented at the Opening of the Scaleup Summit San Francisco, Silicon Valley remains the epicenter of innovation and it’s poised to play a central role in this new tech revolution.
By Serena Orizi|2023-08-08T11:34:53+02:00August 8th, 2023|General|
In 2022 the Korean scaleup economy continued on a sustainable growth trajectory, that is typical of an increasingly mature innovation ecosystem, and Q1 2023 made no exception. According to the data collected by Mind the Bridge with the support of KITA and Crunchbase included in the “Tech Scaleup South Korea Report 2023”, South Korea appears to be on track to establish itself as a regional and global AI tech leader, due to the high density of AI scaleups, structured government support, adequate programs to foster local talent, and availability of dedicated data infrastructures.
By Serena Orizi|2023-03-07T17:50:14+01:00March 7th, 2023|General|
Desafia San Francisco opens the applications for the 2023 Spring batch of its Immersion Program: a unique opportunity for Spanish tech startups to scale faster and globally. The immersion session will take place in San Francisco from May 1st to 12th. Interested startups can apply by March 15th.
