Best High Tech Companies in Umbria, Italy
The 56 best High Tech companies in Umbria, Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Empatica.
Our analysis of 50 High Tech companies
72% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2023; the median company was founded 2017.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Umbria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Empatica Developer of a wrist band to monitor physiological signals 64Tech top 23%Product top 34%Funding top 35%Growth top 35% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 23% Producttop 34% Fundingtop 35% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Markettop 42% Moatbottom 44% Innovationbottom 43% Globalbottom 43% Customersbottom 41% Patentsbottom 38% Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Product: 5 published apps (41.5k installs) · Company stage: Series B rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $31M | 43 mo ago | Series B | Melih Sadi Founder & Owner | 2011 | SanityApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+23 | 2 patents Wearable electrodermal activity sensors with current‑compensation circuitry for accurate skin conductance monitoring | 1 job opening |
| 2 | Contents Developer of an AI-based content-writing platform 76Growth top 21%News top 29%AI top 30%Tech top 31% All 9 signals ▾Growthtop 21% Newstop 29% AItop 30% Techtop 31% Fundingtop 32% Moattop 48% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 38% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · 1 acquisition/expansion move in 24 mo News: 4 BI events in 12 mo (of 16 tracked, 4 types) · +300% YoY rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $24M | 4 mo ago | Acquired | Massimiliano Squillace Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — | 2 launchs |
| 3 | CareGlance Developer of portable, real-time swept source OCT imaging systems. 10Talent bottom 49%Funding bottom 47%Tech bottom 41%Global bottom 36% All 5 signals ▾Talentbottom 49% Fundingbottom 47% Techbottom 41% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 16% Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated Funding: Raised $4.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 10/100 | $4M | 3 mo ago | Seed | Maria Chiara Ubaldi Chief Executive Officer | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | 2 job openings |
| 4 | Kee Square Solutions for biometric identification and tracking | $3M | 221 mo ago | Deadpooled | Fabio Mazza CEO | 2006 | — | 8 patents Computer‑vision based object recognition for virtual fitting mannequins in fashion retail | — |
| 5 | SunCubes Developer of laser-based wireless power and data transmission systems 27Talent top 28%Funding top 45%Global bottom 48%Tech bottom 47% All 5 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 45% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 47% Marketbottom 25% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $1.3M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $1M | 11 mo ago | Seed | Alberto Chiozzi CEO | 2023 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+13 | — | 1 expansion |
| 6 | XMetrics Activity tracker for swimmers | $1M | 141 mo ago | Deadpooled | Davide MacAgnano Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Emotiva Provider of an AI and cloud-based facial recognition platform for enterprises | $707K | 56 mo ago | Seed | Lorenzo Corbo Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+39 | — | — |
| 8 | VoiceMe Decentralized identity and payment security solutions | $659K | 59 mo ago | Seed | Nicolas Musikas Founder & CEO | 2021 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | 3 patents Voice-activated payment processing and transaction authentication systems | — |
| 9 | Heaxel Developer of a smart neurorehabilitation system | $111K | 76 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Umbria
#1
Acquired · Milano, Umbria · founded 2017 · 60 employees$24Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-based content-writing platform. It leverages AI technology to produce multilingual content including blogs, SEOs, ads, articles, and descriptions. It mainly caters to e-commerce websites, publishers, and web agencies.
- Feb 2026Series B$7M
- Jan 2024Series B$18M
- Mar 2021Series A$6M
#2
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2019 · 5 employees$4.4Mraised▾
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- Apr 2026Seed$4.1M
- Nov 2023Seed$267.4K
#3
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2023$1.3Mraised▾
Developer of laser-based wireless power and data transmission systems. The company’s technology enables energy transfer over distances without physical connections. Products deliver power and data to static and dynamic platforms. The technology supports applications such as powering sensors, security cameras, drones, and space-based equipment.
- Jul 2025Seed$1.3M
#4
Series B · Milano, Umbria · founded 2011 · 133 employees$30.9Mraised▾
Developer of a wristband to monitor physiological signals. The E4 wristband for researchers measures blood volume pulse, electrodermal activity, skin temperature and activity. It also offers Embrace, a wristband to monitor physiological stress, arousal, sleep and physical activity which provides seizure monitoring.
- Nov 2022Series B—
- Aug 2022Series B$25.9M
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$353.1K
- Mar 2021Grant (prize money)$115.9K
#5
Deadpooled · Milano, Umbria · founded 2006$2.5Mraised▾
Solutions for biometric identification and tracking
- Feb 2008Series A$2.5M
#6
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2017 · 10 employees$707.1Kraised▾
Provider of an AI and cloud-based facial recognition platform for enterprises. Its features include emotion recognition, audience engagement analytics, attention monitoring tools, and media analytics. It also offers API tools.
- Nov 2021Seed$707.1K
#7
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2021 · 1 employees$659.2Kraised▾
Decentralized identity and payment security solutions. It provides a cyber security platform that allows users and companies to authenticate and make payments digitally through a secure human interface. It also provides solutions to sign documents and contracts with legal validity.
- Jul 2021Seed$659.2K
#8
Deadpooled · Milano, Umbria · founded 2014$1.1Mraised▾
Xmetrics has developed advanced activity trackers for swimmers. Their unit consists of a head worn device positioned of the back of the device tracking activity utilizing a 9 axis sensor and ear plugs through which real time feed back about strokes is provided to the swimmer. Additionally movement are analyzed using analytics engine shareable with others.
- Oct 2014Seed$1.1M
#9
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2022$20Kraised▾
Developer of AI-based advanced hybrid quantum and quantum applications. It provides user with a quantum computing company that specializes in developing advanced hybrid quantum-classical software to solve complex real-world problems. They use Quantum AI to solve machine learning problems with less data and reduced computing times.
- 2024Seed$20K
#10
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2020 · 3 employees$75.4Kraised▾
Provider of MQTT communication protocols for IoT applications. It leverages Apache Kafka for the storage and distribution of data and utilises MQTT messages in the architecture and analytics platform for processing. Its features include network and device independence, cloud integration, fault-tolerant, and integration pipeline free process.
- Jul 2022Seed$75.4K
#11
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2017 · 18 employees$111Kraised▾
Heaxel has developed a medical system for neurorehabilitation. The ICone is a plug-and-play smart rehabilitation system, that enables neurosurgeons to tailor treatment plans for patients. The system offers interactive games, active motor planning and adaptive force fields based on the neuroplasticity stimulation. The patient engagement levels to the therapy is objectively assessed and the data collected in real-time by the connected software.
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$55K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
- Oct 2018Seed—
#12
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2022 · 5 employees—raised▾
Developer of software technology designed for vehicle fleet management. The company's platform offers round-the-clock localization, a live dashboard, a protection system, and automatic monitoring of vehicles, helping clients monitor and protect their vehicles.
- 2022Seed—
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How research on Semiconductors is moving in Italy
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 876 Italy-affiliated papers.
- Politecnico di Milano103
- STMicroelectronics71
- Polytechnic University of Turin70
- University of Pavia49
- University of Bologna45
- Photonics13→28
- CMOS23→37
- Voltage4→17
- Integrated circuit13→25
- Electronics2→13
- Detector7→19
- Amplifier4→15
- Photonics7→12
- Application-specific integrated circuit3→8
- Monolithic microwave integrated circuit4→8
- Photonics2→5
- Electronics2→4
- Electronic circuit4→5
- Transistor3→4
Where semiconductors is researched across Italy
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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