There is an Italian startup that has provided Spotify with the lyrics of all the songs in the world so when we listen to them we can follow the words. There is an Italian startup that automatically translates, with an artificial intelligence system, all Airbnb ads into over sixty languages, so people can swap homes on the fly. There is an Italian startup where every day users all over the world, especially young people, upload about 140,000 used clothing items to resell and succeed, it is fashion that marries the circular economy.
And there is another that has finally transformed the scraps of oranges into fabrics and the ties of the powerful of the earth are made like this. There is an Italian startup that has developed an artificial intelligence model that can predict whether or not a healthy person will develop Alzheimer’s disease with 98.5 percent accuracy. And there is another that is developing stem cell-based cancer therapies and that in the meantime went public on Wall Street, the first time of an Italian startup, raising 36 million dollars. There is an Italian startup that in ten years has created the largest European school of digital skills, so that no one has to be left behind. And another that teaches coding to southern youth with courses that they pay only after they have found a job. There is an Italian startup that has installed computer centers at the hydroelectric plants of the Alpine arc so they produce cryptocurrencies without polluting, only with clean energy. And another that gives a cryptocurrency to those who enter the ecosystem of sensors to monitor air quality in real time.
The Italian startups this year have not only told us beautiful stories but have made the business of making relevant companies grow. They invented new products or services, created jobs, made the world we live in a little better.
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