TOP 25 — Italy

Family-founded group turned Italian giant in payroll, HR and management software.

Italy's leading management-software vendor for SMBs, accountants and professionals.

Europe's largest healthcare-software vendor, controlled by Ardian and bulked up by acquiring Agfa HealthCare IT and DXC's healthcare business.

Milan-based tech conglomerate that now owns Evernote, Vimeo and WeTransfer.

Formerly Expert System, a natural-language-processing and hybrid-AI specialist from Modena, listed on Euronext Growth Milan.

E-learning platform born in Turin, now Nasdaq-listed.

E-signature, digital identity and trust services, founded in Italy's Marche region and controlled by Bain Capital since 2020.

Digital certification authority — certified email, SPID, e-signature — within the Tinexta group, one of Europe's largest trust providers.

Wealth and asset-management software used by private banks and investment managers in around ten countries.

Trento-based software group owned by the Podini family, specializing in solutions for banks, local government and territories.

Speech technology and AI, including the Velvet language models, listed on Euronext Growth Milan and controlled by the Almaviva group.

AI-augmented translation, blending professional linguists with language models.

The world's largest synced-lyrics catalog, embedded in Spotify and Apple Music.

Corporate treasury and financial-management software for mid-sized and large companies, listed in Milan and controlled by Dedagroup.

Open-finance platform spun out of the Banca Sella group, connecting banks, fintechs and corporates through APIs.

Formerly MailUp and Milan-listed; sold its email-marketing platform to TeamSystem in 2023 to focus on the Beefree editor.

Platform-engineering suite for building and governing cloud-native architectures, singled out by Gartner.

Managed detection and response (MDR) with 24/7 monitoring for mid-sized companies, listed on Euronext Growth Milan since 2019.

Generative AI for business data and the Italian language model "Colosseum", now rebranded as Domyn.

Security-awareness training for employees, complete with phishing simulations.

Personalized customer communications — interactive bills, video — and document digitization, listed on Euronext Growth Milan.

AI applied to customer experience and marketing, listed on Euronext Growth Milan.

Geo-distributed, sovereign cloud storage pitched as a European alternative to Amazon S3, born in Bologna in 2016.

Accounting, payroll and ERP software for practices and SMBs, distributed through a partner network across Italy.

Industrial (OT/IoT) network security, founded by Italian engineers, run from San Francisco and acquired by Mitsubishi Electric in 2025.