Techstars Transformative World Torino’s Post

Congratulations to our Techstars Transformative World Torino ALL STAR MENTORS 🌟 Your ongoing support and expertise is invaluable for the success of our founders and program. THANK YOU for being part of our journey year and year again! You are awesome! ✨ Achilleas Kotrozos ✨ Amanda Whitmore ✨ Antonio Baccari ✨ Patrick van Hoof

Meet the Class of 2024 of the Techstars Transformative World Torino Accelerator! 🚀 We're thrilled to announce that after a rigorous selection process, 12 exceptional teams have been chosen to join us at OGR Torino, our innovation and networking hub. Today marks the beginning of an exciting journey as we kick off a 13-week accelerator program, where these teams will forge valuable connections that extend far beyond the program's duration. The diverse mix of software and hardware companies, covering exciting sectors like Quantum Computing, Maritime, Deep Tech, EdTech, AI, PropTech, GenAI, AudioTech, Future of Work, and Hospitality, highlights our commitment to fostering innovation across various technological domains. We're pumped about the highest-ever participation of Italian startups, with six homegrown companies among our selected cohort and six companies joining us from Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, and Vietnam. Meet our 12 rockstar teams: G2Q Computing (Milan, Italy) Advanced hybrid quantum software to solve complex real-world problems. Impact AI (Vienna, Austria) Modular platform with no-code tools that can assess directly the performance and business impact of LLM based applications developments. SylloTips (Rome, Italy) All-in-one knowledge sharing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to optimize and enhance knowledge and companies’ internal processes. SHION (Vienna, Austria) Active echo and noise canceling system with purpose-built hardware for noise reduction. plain. (Warsaw, Poland) Interior design solution that provides everything necessary for a space setup - floor plan, furniture selection, and implementation support. NUBO, New Urban Office (Milan, Italy) Shaping the future of workspaces through a widespread network leveraging underused urban spaces. Bestie Bite (Rome, Italy) Reshaping restaurant discovery and reviews through a peer-to-peer community. Trainizi (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) Microlearning platform that trains, engages, and retains deskless workers. REVIWAY (Reggio Emilia, Italy) Reviway tackles the issue of road surfaces deterioration with computer vision and a fully-automated vehicle. Intuos (L’Aquila, Italy) Service platform combining vertical software, IoT devices and AI based data models to increase operating process efficiency, aircraft monitoring and flight safety. VisionAnchor (Ljubljana, Slovenia) The world’s first smart anchoring system that tracks the anchor and sends a data feed to the boat. Voovo (Budapest, Hungary) Educational platform that helps students absorb high volumes of information quickly by creating the fastest and easiest way to make digital flashcards. Welcome to the Techstars Family! https://lnkd.in/d-CBBPzz

Better late than never 🚀 As we gear up to another exciting program and impatiently wait to reveal our next batch to you this Monday, February 19th – we also took some time to reflect our last year’s achievements and what will make the year ahead special for us! 📈 Fundraising Success: Despite last year’s market downturn in early-stage financing, our portfolio companies closed 14 financing rounds in 2023, amounting to an impressive total of €90M post-program funding in our portfolio and 2 completed exits! 🤝 Partnership Renewal: Our longstanding partnership with key Italian institutions and innovation leaders, Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, Fondazione CRT, and Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo was extended for 2 more years, a testament to our shared commitment to supporting local and international early-stage companies in the thriving ecosystem of Torino. 💚 Team Expansion: With now 50+ portfolio companies and an intensive 13-week accelerator ahead of us, we expanded our team with Sheila and Virginia, who will be supporting our portfolio companies throughout and post-program, bringing their respective expertise in Program Management and Venture Capital to our program in Torino. 🔗 Strategic Ecosystem Collaborations: Our collaboration with LIFTT - the leading venture capital firm investing in deep tech and our neighbours at OGR Torino, and with Arcanys Ventures - giving our founders unprecedented access to their team of +300 seasoned Tech experts, are one of the many key strategic relationships we have developed both with local and international players that can provide hands-on support in key challenging areas such as strategic growth and investor readiness for our startups. And now, stay tuned for the reveal of our Class of 2024 on Monday morning and many more amazing news in 2024! 😎

'AI' is everywhere nowadays and its application is making a positive impact on effectiveness and efficiency across industries 📈 Precisely how can it be applied in the Sustainability sector? How can Machine Learning be used effectively to scale business, better serve clients, and lead to better decision-making, especially in traditional sectors such as metals and mining? Join our 2023 alumni and CEO of Sirius, Anastasia Kuskova and our rockstar mentor Scott Newton in their LinkedIn live next week to find an answer to these questions and engage in an interactive Q&A and discussion ✨ Sirius, who just raised a EUR 1.2M pre-seed round, is reshaping the metals and mining industry with its innovative AI 'sustainability twin', simplifying the management, sharing, and analysis of sustainability data for companies. 🎟 Register now here: https://lnkd.in/dREnu482

🚀 Congratulations to our 2022 alumni Hive Power for raising EUR 1M 🚀 With this funding boost, we can't wait to see how the team accelerates the transition towards a smarter and more sustainable energy and mobility future. Way to go, Gianluca Corbellini and team! 👏 This is funding alert #2 from our Techstars Transformative World Torino portfolio for this week! Stay tuned for more exciting news soon 👀

🚀 Congratulations to our 2023 alumni Sirius for raising a EUR 1.2M pre-seed round 🚀 From Demo Day to reaching this important milestone in just 8 months! CEO and co-founder Anastasia Kuskova shares her experience with us in an exclusive interview about the fundraising process and why she's excited to work with powerful funds and investors like Fund F by Female Founders (Nina Wöss, Jaysri Thangam), who led the round, as well as BlackWood (Bastian R. Larsen) and WEPA Ventures (Carl-Luis Rieger, Till Rösnick). Also Techstars invested (again!), together with select angel investors! We are seriously excited to see what's next 😉

'Is it worth doing an acceleration program?' 🤔 Who better to provide an answer than one of our alumni, who lived the experience firsthand during our last accelerator? 👉 Being challenged on a daily basis, being supported in believing you can go bigger and faster than you thought, and being closely surrounded by other highly motivated founders with whom you make long lasting connections — these are some of the special ingredients that make an accelerator experience valuable for founders. Thank you for the shoutout Alessandro and congrats to team Wibo for reaching this impressive milestone 🌟

Exciting news for our 2021 alumni eTEU 👀 Congratulations Eduard and team, on reaching this significant milestone for their cutting-edge electronic trade documentation platform and empowering the digital revolution in international trade! We are excited to be part of your journey 🚀

Thrilled to introduce the latest addition to our core team - Virginia Pigato, who is joining us as Investment Analyst 🚀 Virginia's journey in the startup world began in the dynamic realm of deep tech companies, where she played a pivotal role in their scale-up phase. After a successful stint as the Growth Associate for our 2022 Cities of the Future program, she moved on to venture capital, where she covered space and deep tech, coupled with valuable experience in corporate innovation. With her return, Virginia brings back a wealth of expertise to bolster and support our existing and future portfolio companies and nurture the local ecosystem 🙌 Curious to know what bright her back? "Techstars taught me firsthand about the significant role that community and hands-on support play in accelerating early-stage companies. I'm honored to work with Techstars founders again, alongside a stellar team and partners. I am driven to continue supporting the growth of Torino as a rising innovation hub." Welcome back to Torino 🇮🇹 and to the team, Virginia! Stay tuned for more exciting news about our next program kicking off on February 19th 😎

⚡ Join the greatest minds in energy and mobility ⚡ Our 2022 alumni, Hive Power, is creating a community for energy and mobility innovators. Stay up-to-date by joining the Clean Energy Club! As a member, you’ll have access to a multitude of resources and networking meetings with C-levels from the field, plus exclusive live energy happy hours in select European cities. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with other like-minded professionals in the industry. Apply to join the Clean Energy Club today!  👉 https://lnkd.in/dqQNmR_S 🏃♂️ Hurry up, there are already 500 members and counting with companies like Renault Trucks, Enel X, E.ON, Toyota, Plenitude, and many more coming together to network on the energy transition.