1 day, 50 startups: the innovation ecosystem came together at OGR Torino

A format unique in Italy: more than fifty innovative companies presenting to investors in a single day, across three parallel stages dedicated to Life Sciences, Smart Cities and Aerospace. Turin confirms its position as one of Europe’s leading hubs for industrial innovation.

Discover the 50+ featured startups

50 in a Day, the event organised by OGR Torino, the hub of Fondazione CRT, together with the incubators 2i3T of the University of Turin and I3P, the Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with Microsoft Italia and with the support of Talent Garden, Italian Tech Alliance, Unione Industriali Torino and InnovUp as ecosystem partners, took place today. Now in its second edition, the event brought together more than fifty startups and scaleups active in the Life Sciences, Smart Cities and Aerospace sectors at OGR Torino, alongside investors, corporates and institutions from the Italian and European deeptech ecosystem.

50 in a Day is a structured, thematic presentation format with no comparable precedent on the national innovation events scene. Three parallel stages, three sectors, one day: a model designed to maximise the quality of the encounters between those building and those investing, with no wasted dispersion.

Starting at 2.30 PM, on the Space, Life and City stages, the featured startups presented their technologies and solutions to an audience of investors, corporates and stakeholders.
At the end of the day, awards were presented to the companies that delivered the most effective presentations: from OGR Torino, six months of free membership with a workplace at OGR Tech; from I3P, three months of business development support; three months of mentorship at the 2i3T Incubator; and from Talent Garden, a free master’s programme.

The day opened at 11.30 AM with institutional greetings from Davide Canavesio, CEO of OGR Torino, Fiorella Altruda, President of 2i3T, and Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P. This was followed by a keynote speech by Maria Cristina Odasso, Head of Business Analysis at LIFTT.

The winners are SUPAIR, Repertor.IO, and LOKI, respectively in the “Space, Robotics & Advanced Mobility”, “Health & Life Sciences”, and “Smart City | AI Impact & Climate Tech” categories. They will receive six months of free membership from OGR Torino, including a workplace at OGR Tech, three months of business development support from I3P, three months of mentorship at the 2i3T Incubator, and a free master’s programme from Talent Garden.

The context: a growing market, a consolidating ecosystem

The 2026 edition of 50 in a Day comes at a time of structural transformation for Italian venture capital. Among European countries with a venture capital market worth more than one billion, Italy recorded the highest annual growth after Finland, Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands, bucking the trend seen in France and Germany, both of which declined.

The market is growing but becoming more concentrated: ten rounds exceeded 25 million euros in 2025, all in the second half of the year, and five companies raised around half of the total capital available. In the first quarter of 2026 there were 53 rounds, for a total of 367 million euros: the lowest number of deals in the last five years, but with a value in line with the average of the previous two years. AI leads by number of investments, in parallel with a European trend in which artificial intelligence reached 61% of continental deal value.

Against this backdrop, Turin, European Capital of Innovation 2024-2025, confirms its position as Italy’s most specialised deeptech hub: 86% of the capital raised by Turin startups in 2024 went to deeptech. OGR Tech is at the centre of this trajectory: active since 2019, it supports more than 130 startups every year through 16 acceleration programmes and a network of more than 80 international partners. The companies that have passed through the hub have catalysed a total of more than 480 million euros in investment, and scaleups more than 460 million euros, bringing the total raised to just under one billion euros.

The day concluded with The Innovation Party: a celebration open to the innovation community and the city, with Ciao Discoteca Italiana and Stump Valley at the console. No panels, no keynotes: music, food, drinks and spontaneous connections until 11.00 PM.