It is not a ranking of merit in the strict sense, which is difficult to achieve in itself, but a reliable indicator of which new companies are the most attractive to find employment. The annual ranking of emerging startups to work for created by LinkedIn comes from the processing of data relating to four different criteria: the growth of the workforce of these companies, the interactions of users with their employees, the interest of people in search of work in these startups and the ability of the latter to attract talent.
The pandemic effect
Compared to previous years, as stated in the note introducing the study, the ranking faithfully reflects how the current economic situation and the new ways of living the “new normal” imposed by the pandemic have been an accelerator for those startups that have characterized themselves not only for innovation and resilience, but also for the ability to respond to the needs of a new daily life. Here is the Top Startups Italia 2021, which excludes public companies, personnel selection, venture capital, management consulting and IT companies and those born more than 7 years ago and with less than 30 employees residing in the Peninsula.
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A digital bank and the Poke house on the top two steps
In the top ten drawn up by LinkedIn for Italy there are emerging companies active in various sectors and areas of specialization and with the common denominator of the desire to facilitate the lives of consumers through a wide range of products, solutions and services. At the top of the ranking we find Banca AideXa, fintech born just over a year ago and the first reality in Europe focused exclusively on small and medium-sized enterprises (and on VAT numbers) to have obtained the banking license. It boasts a capital raising of over 47 million euros, a new physical office in Milan and a digital and banking skills recruitment plan that provides for 100 hires by 2022. of food, the startup that occupies the second place: it is Poke House, a reference name in the world of catering based on the typical Hawaiian dish, now very widespread also in Europe. A business model with a strong digital component and the great success achieved on the main out-of-home markets (all forms of communication outside the home environment, from signage to ambient advertising) contributed to the award. proprietary Crm platform.
Fintech and foodtech on shields
Scrolling the ranking from third to sixth place we therefore find in the order Casavo, an instant real estate buyer born in Milan in 2017, Boom, a startup specializing in innovative services in the field of commercial photography, Credimi, one of the main fintechs for loans to SMEs, and another company in the food world, I Love Poke, born in 2017 from the idea of a young New York researcher interested in the well-being of the body and the first to combine this dish with the concept of “healthy fast-food”. In seventh place stands another emerging name in the world of tech finance, namely Scalapay, co-founded by the Italian Simone Mancini in 2019: headquartered in Dublin, it has broken through with a payment solution for third parties that allows customers to buy now and pay later and recently concluded a financing round of $ 155 million, reaching a market valuation of $ 700 million.
Home and vintage deliveries
In eighth and ninth place, respectively, two companies operating in the world of delivery services: Everli, born and established as Supermarket 24 and active in the home delivery of groceries carried out in large-scale distribution, and Milkman, a technological startup for logistics and supply chain. Finally, La DoubleJ closes the ranking in tenth place, an innovative shoppable magazine dedicated to vintage clothes and accessories that tells the Milanese icons of style and which has recently opened its first single-brand store in the Lombard capital.