Held on June 30, 2026, 50 in a Day is 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. This year, the second edition of the event brought together more than fifty start-ups and scale-ups - active in the Life Sciences, Smart Cities and Aerospace sectors - at OGR Torino, alongside investors, corporates and institutions from the Italian and European deep tech ecosystem.
50 in a Day is a structured, thematic presentation format with no comparable precedent on the national innovation events scene. Three parallel stages, dedicated to three sectors, in one same day: a model designed to maximise the quality of the encounters between those building and those investing, with no wasted dispersion.
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.
Starting at 2.30 PM, on the Space, Life and City stages, the featured start-ups 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 winners were Supair, Repertor.IO, and LOKI, respectively in the categories “Space, Robotics & Advanced Mobility”, “Health & Life Sciences”, and “Smart City | AI Impact & Climate Tech”.
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.
The start-ups from I3P
Among the 50 start-ups and scale-ups that presented their pitches during the event, many of the young innovative companies have grown in the Incubator or are currently undergoing incubation at I3P or in ESA BIC Turin. Among them:
- Altered Materials
- ASTRO
- CUS-GNC
- DatAIMed
- Deplotic
- Eva Surgica
- Focoos AI
- Fluid Wire Robotics
- InspectionDrone
- Kurs Orbital
- LOKI
- Medics
- Mespac
- Stratobotic
- Supair
- SynDiag
- U-Care Medical
- Volta Structural Energy
A consolidating ecosystem
The 2026 edition of 50 in a Day came at a time of structural transformation for Italian venture capital. Among European countries with a venture capital market worth more than one billion, according to the data presented by OGR Torino in the context of the event, 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, the European Capital of Innovation 2024-2025, confirms its position as Italy’s most specialised deeptech hub: 86% of the capital raised by Turin start-ups in 2024 went to deep tech. 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.
