Inhuse launches the Genoa incubator

From the South to the North, with the aim of creating an integrated ecosystem to support the birth and growth of innovative start-ups in the Mediterranean, through a network of territorial hubs that has so far reached 12 offices in Italy plus the Brussels office. Inhuse (acronym for Innovation hub South Europe), a structure founded in June 2020, in Caserta, by the entrepreneur Anna Galdieri, started out as an innovative start-up and then became a reference point for emerging enterprises in Southern Italy and a certified incubator (by Mimit). It later expanded both in Southern and Northern Italy, with offices in Pavia and Genoa. The latter, after a running-in period, launched its services yesterday at a public meeting.

The aim of the incubator (which maintains its registered office in Campania and has been placed at the top of the 2025 ranking of the top five certified Italian hubs, by Financial Time) is to launch new businesses on the market, quickly, by providing logistical support, consultancy, networking, and access to financial resources. In Genoa, Inhuse has selected Workspace Italia, a Genoese provider specialising in the management of coworking services and office residences, as the territorial hub for Genoa and Liguria. And in 2025 Workspace started a joint venture with Space4business, a hub dedicated to meetings and corporate events.

"The goal of Inhuse's Genoa office," says the director, Stefano Repetto, former managing director and director of Workspace, "is to reach the number of 20 start-ups incubated by June 2026, with a total funding of EUR 2 million to support businesses. Moreover, we have already started working with some companies in the area, which have attracted the interest of foreign investors: this is the case of Firmodoc, an innovative startup that archives documents with Ai, stores them in accordance with the law and manages automated signature processes; the company has raised investments in the pre seed phase for 200 thousand euros, started a subsidised finance route amounting to 600 thousand euros, and now aims to complete the seed capital with a 300 thousand euro round to enter the market."

The intention, on Genoa, adds Repetto, 'is to create a company shared by Inhuse, with Workspace and other local players. The Genoa office, moreover, will soon host one of the foreign start-up finalists at the Intenational pitch night, edition 2025, which is being held in Lisbon, until 13 November. A global event dedicated to the technology and innovation sector, where Italy is present with a pavilion that, under the coordination of Ice, will host 35 Italian start-ups, an expression of technological innovation made in Italy'.

Inhuse, explains Pasquale Brancaccio, general manager of the innovation hub, 'is also expanding its reach abroad: it is setting up an office in Egypt, in Cairo, where the incubator has already operated in assisting Arab and African start-ups. And a landing in the Middle East is planned: offices in Riyadh and Dubai will be opened between December 2025 and January 2026. These facilities will operate not as foreign branches but as autonomous entities, 51% owned by Inhuse'.