This thesis has been conceived to monitor the Italian startups’ situation and how entrepreneurship is evolving inside the county. The focal scope is to study the diffusion of this network in order to decide if the country’s measure taken to promote the born of a new company and to boost the creation of innovation are performing as desired. Especially the core of the research is to understand if the effects are different for a different type of focus of the companies. What I wanted to answer to was “are startups based on AI performing better than other ones? And on what metrics?” The thesis is divided into two major parts: the first one based on literature with the aim of understanding better the startup world and the metrics that are used to evaluate the startup’s performances.