The 20th edition of Start Cup Piemonte Valle d'Aosta, the competition for tomorrow's entrepreneurs, is drawing to a close: come and discover the year's most deserving new innovative projects at the awards ceremony on October 30th, 2024 in Turin!
The ceremony will see the participation of 10 finalist projects, selected from over 190 business ideas submitted to the competition, competing for prizes and special mentions offered by the Partners and Promoters with the aim of supporting the birth of new innovative start-ups and promoting the economic development of the territory.
The most promising innovative projects compete for the overall prize money of more than €75,000, in cash and services, and the special mentions Female Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Open Innovation / Industrial Spin Off, Climate Change, and Sustainable Technologies.
The top six projects will also participate in the PNI - Italian National Innovation Award 2024, to be held in Rome on Decembre 5th and December 6th, and will challenge the winning projects of the other 16 regional Start Cups.
Register now on Eventbrite to reserve your place in attendance at the event, which will take place from 09:30 CET in the Auditorium of Politecnico di Torino's Energy Center (via Paolo Borsellino 38/16), and meet the upcoming protagonists of the world of innovative entrepreneurship!
Program
Ore 09:30 | Participant registration
Ore 10:00 | Opening institutional greetings
Elena Chiorino, Vice-President of the Piedmont Region with responsibility for Employment, Training, Education and Merit, University
Andrea Tronzano, Piedmont Regional Councillor for Development of Productive Activities, Internationalisation and Investment Attraction
Luigi Bertschy, Vice-President of the Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta with responsibility for Economic Development, Training and Labour, Transport and Sustainable Mobility
Candido Pirri, Vice Rector for Model Development and Research Infrastructure, Politecnico di Torino
Fiorella Altruda, President of 2i3T, the Incubator of the University of Turin
Giuseppe Scellato, President of I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino
Ore 10:30 | Elevator Pitch of the 10 finalist projects
Ore 11:30 | Start Cup Piemonte Valle d'Aosta 2024 award ceremony
Ore 13:00 | Concluding remarks
The finalist projects
Colemus (Life Sciences);
Deplotic (Industrial);
INFLANT (Life Sciences);
MediaMiner (ICT);
Neural Medix - Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging (ICT);
Penso.green (Cleantech and Energy);
Point Zero (Industrial);
Steroidomus Medtech (Life Sciences);
Therness (Industrial);
Time Processor (ICT).
Partners and sponsors
The initiative is financed by Regione Piemonte with resources from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), promoted by Piedmont's universities and managed by the I3P and 2i3T Business Incubators as part of the PNI - Italian National Award for Innovation and is the most important and widespread Business Plan Competition in Italy that selects the best innovative business projects each year.
The event, sponsored by Politecnico di Torino, sees the participation of institutions, foundations and sponsoring companies interested in spreading the culture of innovation: Piedmont Region, Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta, Turin Chamber of Commerce, City of Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Finpiemonte, Aosta Valley Chamber, CTE Next, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo, Jacobacci & Partners, LINKS Foundation, Laura & Franco Beltramo ETS Foundation, Michelin Sviluppo Foundation, Distretto Aerospaziale Piemonte, UniCredit, City of Alessandria, City of Cuneo, City of Novara, City of Saluzzo, City of Vercelli, AIFI - Italian Private Equity Venture Capital and Private Debt Association, Invitalia, Pépinière d'Entreprises Aosta, University of Valle d'Aosta.
