THELIA received a Special Award for Female Entrepreneurship within the StartCup Lombardia 2025 competition during the Startup Days held on November 11–12 and organized by Regione Lombardia.

The recognition represents an important milestone in THELIA’s entrepreneurial journey, highlighting the potential of the project and the role of female leadership in bringing deep technology from research toward the market.

The award also gave THELIA access to the Premio Nazionale Innovazione (PNI) 2025, held in Ferrara in early December, where the team joined some of the most promising Italian university startups and research-based ventures.

For THELIA, the experience marked another step in building the network, visibility and validation needed to move the technology closer to real-world applications.