We do
responsible
innovation
Maritime Ventures
Cariplo Factory and Bridgemaker are venture builder partners in the project conceived by CDP Venture Capital.

Community
Innovation
Cariplo Factory’s Community Innovation projects generate a concrete and measurable impact from a social, environmental and cultural point of view.
We work closely with foundations, institutions, organizations and agencies, civil society entities and corporate companies, both Italian and international.
We start by reading the needs of the reference communities to create multi-stakeholder projects capable of generating replicable innovation processes.
Case History
Call for Solutions – Sustainable Food Systems is an initiative launched within the Horizon2020 Food Trails project, designed to develop sustainable, healthy, and inclusive food policies in 11 European cities: Bergamo, Birmingham, Bordeaux Metropole, Copenhagen, Funchal, Grenoble-Alpes Metropole, Groningen, Milan, Thessaloniki, Tirana, and Warsaw.
Case History
Coopen is a participatory initiative promoted by Innovazione per lo Sviluppo, a program by Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, with the goal of fostering innovation in the field of international cooperation. The initiative benefits from the technical support of Cariplo Factory, Tiresia, JengaLab, and Effecinque.
Case History
Fondazione Cariplo is promoting the "InnovaWelfare - Technological and Digital Acceleration of Welfare Services" program to enhance the innovation capacity of nonprofit actors active in the welfare system and support service innovation by leveraging the potential of new technologies.
Case History
"Generating Value: Sustainability and Innovation" was the event by Cariplo Factory and Sustainability Makers that brought together purpose-driven innovation and corporate social responsibility.

Innovation
Sustainable
Cariplo Factory’s Sustainable Innovation projects foster the growth and long-term sustainability of companies and institutions, with constant attention to ESG criteria.
We work together with large and medium-sized companies, institutional players and public organizations, venture capital funds, early stage startups and scaleups.
With our open innovation methodologies and our network we offer our partners a strategic approach to innovation, working on internal and external processes.
Case History
Cariplo Factory supports Snam within the context of the Snaminnova open innovation program to enhance both internal and external entrepreneurship, promote a culture of innovation, and encourage the creation of new projects and acceleration programs.
Case History
Berkeley SkyDeck Europe, Milano is the acceleration program promoted by Berkeley SkyDeck, Cariplo Factory, and Lendlease to support the development of the European startup ecosystem through a program carried out partly in Italy, at the MIND Milano Innovation District, and partly in the United States.
Case History
Federated Innovation @MIND is the public-private collaborative model designed to drive and coordinate innovation processes within the MIND-Milan Innovation District. The model is promoted by Lendlease with the contribution of Cariplo Factory as the catalyst of the entire ecosystem.
Projects
Our numbers in 2024
startups
intercepted
startups that have applied to calls
beneficiaries
intercepted
beneficiaries who applied to the calls
corporate
and institutional partners
open innovation projects started
acceleration and incubation paths
people at our digital and physical events
events hosted
in our spaces

The team
Sustainable Innovation
Community Innovation


Marco
Noseda
Chief Impact and Strategy Officer

Lina
Guglielmino
Senior Impact Innovation Manager

Consuelo
Di Pietro
Stakeholder Engagement Manager

Selena
Caporale
Impact Innovation Consultant

Chiara
Petroni
Impact Innovation Consultant

Sofia
Sicilia
Impact Innovation Consultant

Veronica
Colciaghi
Impact Innovation Analyst

Enrico
Noseda
Chief Innovation Advisor

Andrea
Beretta
Senior Director, Startup Operations & Investments

Giovanni
Bugnotto
Director, Innovation

Paolo
Salza
Director, Innovation

Luisa
Caluri
Senior Innovation Manager

Giacomo
Cavalli
Senior Ecosystem Manager

Antonio
Iovine
Senior Innovation Manager

Lorenzo
Lugaresi
Senior Venture Architect

Annalaura
Silvestro
Senior Innovation Manager

Nicholas
Todeschini
Senior Venture Architect

Ivan
Cavella
Innovation Architect

Andrea
Censoni
Investment Manager

Chiara
Firmani
Innovation Manager

Argia
Galliano
Program Manager

Paola Luisa
Bassani
Innovation Consultant

Simonetta
Mentuccia
Innovation Consultant

Gregorio
Roccasecca
Program Coordinator

Vittoria
Tuzzi
Ecosystem Coordinator

Lorenzo
Calcagno
Innovation Analyst

Antonio
Mura
Innovation Analyst

Giovanni
Ogliaro
Junior Innovation Venture Architect

Beatrice
Talpo
Innovation Analyst