Assintel is the national association of ICT companies of “Confcommercio – Imprese for Italy”, the greatest entrepreneurial confederation of the Italian tertiary sector. The association allows companies to share the same goals and needs with other companies, to have a stronger market position, to access privileged access channels to resources. In September 2015 Assintel Umbria was established: its President, Roberto Palazzetti, talks about Assintel and Agricolus.
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Agricolus, a “marriage of convenience” with Assintel
A brilliant startup and a dynamic and growing association: a great meeting between Agricolus and Assintel, the national association of ICT companies of Confcommercio that has been in Umbria an active and successful presence.
The choice of Agricolus to enter Assintel is a “marriage of convenience”: convenience in the opportunities the association can guarantee by representing an ecosystem of IT companies that are very articulated in terms of dimensions, skills, locations; to constitute the ultimate point of the big Confcommercio world on the front of digitization; to manage a specific service system, enriched by the value of networking; to be an authoritative interlocutor of institutions and the university world on innovation issues; to foster and develop shared planning with direct access to regional, national and European funding sources.
But the meeting between Agricolus and Assintel is important because of the focus and the special program that the association today dedicates to the world of innovative startups. Two goals: connect them with mature ICT companies and incorporate them into a diffused digital lab for the companies of the Confcommercio system. Italian innovative startups are over 7,000, 70% coming from the ICT sector: very few become real businesses and leave the launch phase. Agricolus is a success among the few. There is lack of managerialism and funds, while incubators and accelerators proliferate.
We need a “market injection” and with this purpose Assintel launched its “Ecosystem Startup” project, during an event that took place last July, which allowed the meeting between almost 200 startups and 15 among the largest investors and Italian investment platforms. An initiative that will be replicated and optimized.
Agricolus with its know-how is therefore an important value for Assintel: its CEO, Andrea Cruciani, is an active entrepreneur in Assintel Umbria, who believes in the association system as a community, and his provocation to make our region a sort of Italian Silicon Valley, which can combine the quality of life with the quality of work, is a great challenge.
Roberto Palazzetti
President of Assintel Umbria
