🚀 Unicorn candidates
- Prima Assicurazioni - €150M raised, InsurTech hub a Bari
- OverIT - €30M Series D, 850 dipendenti (Field Service Mgmt)
- Musixmatch - R&D a Bari, music NLP global
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Apulia Technology and Innovation HUB 2026
An open and continuously updated observatory on the Apulian tech ecosystem: 52+ entities among startups, scale-ups, corporate R&D centers, innovation hubs. CC-BY dataset, annual report, territorial map. Because Puglia is not just a retirement destination - it's an expanding technological ecosystem.
52+entità
4province attive
€550M+funding raised totale
2028Data Center Valley target
Why this intelligence?
- Data Center Valley in costruzione: 2+ miliardi EUR di investimenti annunciati tra Bari, Taranto, Brindisi per infrastrutture cloud e hyperscaler entro il 2028.
- Investitore / founder lontani: gap informativo. VC milanesi e romani non hanno visibilità reale sulle aziende pugliesi oltre le prime 5 note. Questo dataset è il loro entry point.
- Territorial tech + open data = vantaggio first-mover. Non c'è un equivalente italiano per Sicilia, Campania, Sardegna. Dopo Puglia, possibili espansioni a richiesta (ma il focus Y1 resta sulla qualità su un territorio).
Open Data Dataset 1.0.0
52 Puglia tech entities classified by sector, funding stage, city, employee range, funding raised. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) licence.
Cita questo dataset: Calò, F. (2026). Puglia Tech Ecosystem 2026 - Startup, scale-up, corporate hub, v1.0.0. federicocalo.dev/open-data/puglia-startup-2026.
Highlighted Entities
🏛️ Listed companies
- Exprivia - quotata Euronext STAR, 2400 dipendenti (Molfetta)
- Relatech - AIM Italia, hub secondario a Bari
🤝 Corporate hub (R&D italiani)
- Bosch Research Bari - 650 researcher software automotive
- Leonardo Electronics - Brindisi, 900 dipendenti difesa
- Nokia Bari - 250 researcher reti
- Accenture Bari - 450 dipendenti centro competenza
- NTT Data Bari - 550 dipendenti nearshoring
- Almaviva Bari - 380 dipendenti IT services PA
🌱 Emerging startups
- Jobiri - AI career advisor, Seed €2M
- SmartCow - Edge AI + video analytics, Series A €8M
- Tecnomar - Shipbuilding tech Brindisi, Scale-up €6.5M
- Sanlò Tech - Olive oil blockchain traceability
- Pharmatic - Health IoT smart pill dispensers
Annual Report "State of Puglia Tech 2026"
An in-depth 6,000-word analysis of the ecosystem: sector trends, cumulative funding by year, top tech employers, territorial map of clusters, connections with PugliaTechs and Puglia Digital Maker. Coming soon (Q3 2026).
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