Best Smart Cities Companies in Italy
The 35 best Smart Cities companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Menowatt.
Ranked: Best Smart Cities companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Menowatt Provider of street lighting monitoring software | $2M | 132 mo ago | Series A | Adriano Maroni CEO | 1993 | — | 2 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 2 | Watly Renewable and connected services for cities | $2M | 133 mo ago | Series A | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 3 | ISCLEANAIR Developer of an IoT-enabled air-filtration and purification technology | $2M | 47 mo ago | Funding Raised | Giuseppe Spanto Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Kiunsys Connected parking enabler | $553K | 108 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | — | 3 patents Smart parking sensors for vehicle proximity detection and space occupancy monitoring | — |
| 5 | Junker Online platform to differentiate household waste | $53K | 117 mo ago | Funding Raised | Noemi Santis Co-Founder | 2014 | WordPressPleskZoho+28 | — | — |
| 6 | Geolumen Provider of street lighting control solutions for energy management systems | $48K | 81 mo ago | Funding Raised | Stefano De Masi Co-Founder | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Evja Provider of environment monitoring devices and solutions | $44K | 122 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2015 | WixSentryApple iCloud Mail+14 | 12 patents Precision agriculture data collection and weighing systems for farm management | — |
| 8 | Sense4Green Water source and supply network monitoring solution | $44K | 122 mo ago | Deadpooled | Daniela Tulone Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
Top 9 Smart Cities companies in Italy
#1
Funding Raised · Albano Laziale, Lazio · founded 2015 · 9 employees$1.6Mraised▾
ISCLEANAIR is a developer of an IoT-enabled air-filtration and purification technology. It offers an APA - Air Pollution Abatement technology that captures pollutants, dust, harmful gases, odors, bacteria, viruses, etc. without any filters.
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$6.5K
- Feb 2018Grant (prize money)$1.6M
#2
Series A · Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia · founded 2013 · 6 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Watly is a renewable energy company, based in Eindhoven and Barcelona. Watly combines a solar water purifier and a micropower station. It is composed of a thermal solar and a photovoltaic panel with a combined peak power of almost 5kW. It acts as an integrated utility machine that desalinates and purifies water, provides free electricity and allows Internet connectivity (4G through a pay-as-you-go system) by harvesting solar energy.
- Sep 2015Series A$2.1M
- 2015Grant (prize money)$2M
- Nov 2013Seed$17K
- Oct 2013Seed—
#3
Seed · Campochiaro, Molise · founded 2011 · 11 employees$553.4Kraised▾
Kiunsys is an end to end to connected parking solution provider facilitating smart cities. Kiunsys provides cloud to store and analyze parking space data, also to push correct information to customers, Ines conductor to relay payment status and location of a vehicle and sensors to gather parking and traffic information and relay it to Ines cloud.
- Oct 2017Grant (prize money)$130K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$116.2K
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$149.7K
- Dec 2015Seed$553.4K
#4
Series A · Grottammare, Marche · founded 1993 · 51 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Provider of street lighting monitoring software. The platform provides a product that is an innovative electronic ballast designed and created for optimizing the efficiency of outdoor lighting lamps. They also offer central monitoring systems for street lighting where electronic units are installed at every point of light to send signals or receive commands and the software on the central system monitors them.
- Sep 2015Series A$2.2M
#5
Funding Raised · Benevento, Campania · founded 2010 · 5 employees$47.8Kraised▾
Provider of street lighting control solutions for energy management systems. The system enables remote control, failure detection, and dimming together with location-based services like energy saving, safety, security, parking management, and environmental monitoring. The communication between the light points and the central station is via a wireless mesh network which can be automatically reconfigured in case of signal loss.
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$47.8K
#6
Funding Raised · Bologna, Emilia Romagna · founded 2014$52.6Kraised▾
Online platform to differentiate household waste. Its app helps users to recognize each product individually by its barcode. Its mobile app is available for iOS and Android devices.
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$52.6K
#7
Funding Raised · Naples, Campania · founded 2015 · 9 employees$44Kraised▾
Provider of environment monitoring devices and solutions
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$44K
#8
Deadpooled · Bologna, Emilia Romagna · founded 2014$44Kraised▾
Sense4Green offers an IoT-based water source monitoring system. The offered system consists of sensors which communicate real-time water quality and infrastructure integrity data to an analytical platform. The utility companies can initiate network maintenance jobs on the basis of analytical reports.
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$44K
#9
Seed · Meda, Lombardy · founded 2009 · 21 employees—raised▾
AI-enabled video-based traffic monitoring and analytics solutions. The company offers a video-based software platform for live traffic dense detection, people and vehicle counting, traffic flow conditions, etc. Also, it uses 3D object tracking technology for collecting statistical data and automatically detecting events. It also offers city management solutions.
- Jun 2021Seed—
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How research on Smart Cities is moving in Italy
A read on the academic research around Smart Cities — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,318 Italy-affiliated papers.
- Politecnico di Milano109
- University of Naples Federico II82
- University of Bologna73
- Sapienza University of Rome67
- University of Florence54
- Smart city28→69
- Intelligent transportation system6→45
- Internet of Things6→25
- Context (archaeology)9→27
- Key (lock)2→16
- Smart city44→103
- Intelligent transportation system9→58
- Context (archaeology)11→35
- Key (lock)5→28
- Architecture3→25
- Smart city22→94
- Context (archaeology)4→27
- Computer security2→20
- Internet of Things4→19
- Urban planning1→16
Where smart cities 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
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.