The Italia Startup Visa programme (italiastartupvisa.mise.gov.it) has received 132 applications as of 31 August 2016.Of these, 94 (71.2%) received a positive evaluation from the Italia Startup Visa Technical Committee, resulting in the release of a Certificate of No Impediment to collect a “startup visa”, a special kind of self-employment visa.
For the Italia Startup Hub programme 5 applications have been received so far. All were successful, leading to the conversion of the residence permit previously held by the applicant into a “startup self-employment” permit. The programme has recently received an upgrade with the publication, on April 22, of the official web portal italiastartuphub.mise.gov.it, of dedicated guidelines (in English and Italian), and specific application forms.
Italia Startup Visa&Hub - Summary of main findings at 31 August 2016 (pdf)