​Just over a year after the inaugural Venture Day, hosted by Techstars Transformative World Torino and LIFTT in collaboration with OGR Torino in May 2024, we’re thrilled to announce Venture Talk 2025: New Horizons, taking place on July 2nd in Torino.

​Torino’s innovation ecosystem is gaining momentum—success stories and new milestones continue to emerge (check out Startup Genome’s latest report on Torino’s Emerging Startup Ecosystem). Much of the recent conversation has focused on the journey so far: what has enabled this growth, and who the key players have been. With Venture Talk 2025 we will set our sights on the future. It’s a chance for investors from across Italy and beyond to come together and explore what’s next for the Italian and Turin startup ecosystem—who are the keyplayers, new and known ones, driving the future, and what innovations will make an impact.

​The event will feature a 90-minute session of several panels, roundtables and keynotes, with a special focus on Circular Economy technologies and investments. We’ll soon announce the speakers and schedule.

​To conclude, we invite all participants to join us for a light aperitivo at Snodo, in the iconic backyard of OGR Torino.

​Schedule:

​16h Doors open & Check-in

​16:30h Welcome and Panel Session

​18h Aperitivo

​19:30h Event ends

​About the hosts:

​About Techstars Transformative World Torino

​Techstars Torino is a leading global startup accelerator that empowers entrepreneurs to bring new technologies and innovations to market. With a robust network of mentors, investors, and industry experts, Techstars Torino provides startups with unparalleled resources and support, enabling them to thrive in today's competitive business landscape. The program started with a focus on Smart Mobility in 2019 and since then has evolved into Cities of The Future and now Transformative World accelerator that has invested in more than 40 international startups which raised +EUR85 million in follow-on funding and have created more than 400 jobs. The program is executed in collaboration with Fondazione Compagnia Di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT, and Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center and is headquartered in Italy’s largest innovation hub, OGR Torino.

​About LIFTT

​Chaired by the scientist and entrepreneur Stefano Buono, LIFTT came to life as an operating company in 2019 thanks to Compagnia di San Paolo, Politecnico di Torino and LINKS Foundation. The aim is to encourage technology development and transfer from University to Industry, but also to clear the way from a simple business idea to the creation of an innovative product, offering a dynamic and modern vision of venture capital as applied to Technology Transfer. LIFTT guarantees high visibility to ideas and new businesses at a national and international level, investing and attracting capital and ensuring maximum impact on the local and national territory. To date, the company has raised EUR 110 million and has completed 56 investments, from a pipeline of +4000 companies, operating in all market sectors. www.liftt.com

​About Techstars

​Techstars is the most active pre-seed investor in the world having invested through its accelerators in more than 4,000 companies. Founded in 2006, Techstars believes that entrepreneurs create a better future for everyone and great ideas can come from anywhere. Now we are on a mission to invest in an unprecedented number of startups per year enabling more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. www.techstars.com

​About OGR Torino

​OGR Torino is a unique centre of culture and innovation in Europe, dedicated to research and experimentation: cultural, artistic and musical in OGR Cult, scientific, technological and entrepreneurial in OGR Tech.

​In 2019 OGR opened OGR Tech, one of the country's largest innovation hubs with a strong focus on high-potential verticals, an ecosystem of 80+ partners and a world-class business community. Today, OGR Tech supports more than 120 startups each year and runs 15 innovation and acceleration programs, in sectors like aerospace and advanced hardware, smart cities and mobility, edutech, gaming, life sciences. To date, OGR Tech has catalyzed more than 350 million euros in startup investments. Its clear and ambitious goal is to close Italy’s technology gap and drive the future of innovation.