The world we live in is constantly changing. Our lives to come will need new tools and ideas able to anticipate change.
A2A Life Ventures is A2A’s new innovation hub, a Life Company that has always invested so as to make the energy and environmental transition sustainable and concrete.
When we talk about First Of A Kind, we mean an unrivalled model: a platform that brings together Corporate Venture Capital, Venture Building, AI, Digital Hub, Tech Transfer, partner ecosystems and the optimal use of assets. All in a single vision, connected to the Group, to the market and to people’s lives.
The experience accumulated over the years becomes the solid base on which we build every new project, where we transform intuitions into industrial value and a positive impact for society.
We have chosen to combine skills, technologies and people in a single model which transforms ideas into high-impact solutions and we accompany these ideas through every stage.
We observe and anticipate trends; we plan, we test, we make ideas grow and we harness their value. It is a continuous process which regenerates itself, fosters new innovation and enables us to create real benefits for the Group, for the areas it serves and for society.
Innovation that combines various levers in a single innovation strategy: from Open Innovation programmes and platforms to the possibility of in-house and co-design developments with ecosystem partners.
An integrated model in which each lever is activated in synergy with the others and with the Business Units, contributing to a shared objective: to transform innovation into value for the Group, for the ecosystem, for society.
Thanks to a bi-directional perspective that unites the Group and the market, A2A has, from the outset, integrated the possibility of transforming solutions into value for the external market too.
A self-fuelled growth model: the value generated is reinvested in new resources, creating a virtuous circle able to multiply the impact.
The monitoring of an international ecosystem capable of autonomously developing innovation, privileging EU partners in the crucial areas of the ecological transition.
Each lever is activated to transform ideas into solutions that generate growth for the Group, for its partners and for the areas that it serves.
Over the last few years, we have built a model that generates industrial, economic and social growth, creating opportunities for the Group and for the areas in which we operate. This is the starting point from which we continue to foster new challenges.
Projects currently in our portfolio
Patent applications made
Total committment
Start-ups of our CVC programme
360Life I fund return performance
Jobs created (of which 800 in Italy) by the start-ups in which we have invested
Over the last few years, A2A Group’s innovation pathway has evolved rapidly: from the starting of the Corporate Venture Capital programme as the first tool dedicated to an opening towards international ecosystems to the recent Corporate Venture Building programme to create new business models able to improve people's quality of life.
This trajectory has defined the birth of a new, increasingly integrated model in which experimentation is translated into industrial application, accelerating the transition from ideas to projects and from projects to the market.
The birth of A2A Life Ventures constitutes the next step of this growth: a corporatization that consolidates innovation as a strategic capability of the Group, transforming it from internal function into stand-alone platform, able to generate industrial value, attract new talent and extend the impact of innovation beyond the perimeter of the Group.
We want to be the ‘First Of A Kind ’ of a new way of doing self-fuelled innovation: an innovation factory that brings together universities, research centres and start-ups, all collaborating to generate industrial development, shared growth for the country.
In order to speed up the ecological transition, we alone are not enough. We are building up an operational network of universities, start-ups, research centres and international hubs that can help us develop high-impact solutions.
With an EU-first approach, we select partners able to reinforce and broaden our technological and industrial autonomy in the most crucial sectors. In this way, we can multiply growth opportunities, bring new skills into the Group and boost the value generated by our initiatives.
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