XXI Edition - 2025

203

Business Ideas

170

Business Plans

499

Participants
1° Prize of €7,500

NanoMuG

2° Prize of €5,000

Theia Sense

3° Prize of €2,500

Rcalls

The three absolute winners will compete in the 2025 edition of PNI, the Italian National Innovation Prize, the “champions cup” among the winning business projects of the regional Start Cups, which this year will be held in Ferrara - at Ferrara Expo - on Thursday, December 4 and Friday, December 5, 2025. The event will be jointly organized by PNICube and the University of Ferrara, as part of ECOSISTER - Territorial Ecosystem of Innovation of Emilia-Romagna, funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).

In addition, the following projects ranked 4th ex-aequo at the Start Cup Piemonte Valle d'Aosta 2025 also acquire the opportunity to participate in the national final:

Special Prizes

Fondazione CRC Prize

of €10,000, offered by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo

Valle d’Aosta Prize

of €7,500, offered by Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta

Space Sustainability Prize

of €7,500 in services, offered by Distretto Aerospaziale Piemonte

Social Innovation Gold Prize

of €5,000, offered by Fondazione Laura & Franco Beltramo ETS

Social Innovation Silver Prize

of €2,500, offered by Fondazione Laura & Franco Beltramo ETS

City of the Future and Sustainability Prize

of €7,500, offered by LINKS Foundation

Jacobacci Gold Prize

of €5,000 in services, offered by Jacobacci & Partners

Jacobacci Silver Prize

of €2,000 in services, offered by Jacobacci & Partners

UniCredit Start Lab Prize

of a mentorship session, offered by UniCredit

Eng. Domenico Appendino Gold Prize

of €7,000, offered by AME Ventures

Eng. Domenico Appendino Silver Prize

of €3,000, offered by AME Ventures

Future Mobility Prize

in services, offered by the ToMove project of the City of Turin

Future Mobility Prize

in services, offered by the ToMove project of the City of Turin

Future Mobility Prize

in services, offered by the ToMove project of the City of Turin

Special Mentions

Women Entrepreneurship - Invitalia

Social Innovation

Open Innovation / Industrial Spin-offs

Sustainable Technologies

Eng. Domenico Appendino