# Clover Venture

> Clover Venture is an Italian benefit company combining tailored corporate hackathons with a skills intelligence platform. It helps employers assess talent, map employee capabilities, design teams and prioritize training or hiring, while connecting companies with a talent community and innovation partners.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** Milan, Italy
- **Founders:** Paolo Licata (Founder; Chief Ecosystem Officer; impact lead)
- **Products:** Assessment, Skill Manager, Workforce Intelligence, Benchmark Intelligence, Talent Hackathon
- **Notable:** The 2025 impact report records 39 supported startups, 212 participating talents, 10 university partners and 18 companies with active innovation challenges., The same report records 117 women among 212 participants, approximately 55%., GenNext returned in 2026; Clover’s completion announcement names winning teams against Thermokey, Technowrapp and UniCredit challenges.

## Products & services

- **Assessment** — Dynamic assessments map and evaluate hard and soft skills.
- **Skill Manager** — A digital representation of organizational skills supports employee management and development.
- **Workforce Intelligence** — Aggregates individual profiles to map skill coverage, gaps, mentoring and alternative team compositions.
- **Benchmark Intelligence** — Compares internal skills with market and role benchmarks to prioritize training and recruitment.
- **Talent Hackathon** — A recruitment format lets employers observe candidates working on a challenge and receive individual skills reports.
- **Assessment Hackathon** — An internal challenge maps existing and previously unrecognized employee skills.
- **Learning Hackathon** — Customized business challenges support experiential learning and technology adoption.
- **Multiazienda Hackathon** — A customized format brings multiple companies and other stakeholders together around a shared challenge.
- **Clovers Community** — A talent community offering company projects, mentoring and opportunities to demonstrate skills.
- **Grace** — Named in the 2025 rebranding and impact report as an AI platform for innovation tracking, assessment and ecosystem management; the current website presents a Clover-branded skills platform.

## Achievements

- The 2025 impact report records 39 supported startups, 212 participating talents, 10 university partners and 18 companies with active innovation challenges.
- The same report records 117 women among 212 participants, approximately 55%.
- GenNext returned in 2026; Clover’s completion announcement names winning teams against Thermokey, Technowrapp and UniCredit challenges.
- The current homepage reports 1,200+ assessments, 15+ hackathons and 80+ partner companies.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Clover announced the completion of GenNext 2026 and named its winning teams.
- **2025-12** — Clover described a full-time team exceeding ten people and recruitment of developers and engineers.
- **2025-11** — Rebranding positioned Clover as an innovation technology company with Clover Lab, Clover PI and the Grace platform.

## Links

- Website: https://cloverventure.it/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloverventure/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cloverventure_

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Last updated: 2026-10-08