Kick-off of the second edition of the accelerator program for data-driven social impact startups and SMEs - Impact Deal

The first introductory kick-off meeting of Impact Deal, an accelerator program in its second year, was held today

Impact Deal is a 6-month (June-November) data-driven accelerator program for impact businesses, companies and organizations, which acts as an agreement between disparate parties to generate positive and measurable social and environmental impact based on the use of data. The main target are companies pursuing (ex-ante) impact goals (according to the UN-defined SDGs) in addition to the usual financial KPIs.

Thanks to the contribution of the NODES project, within the scope of Spoke 2 - Green Technologies and Sustainable Industry - of which OGR Turin is a partner - the 2023 edition of Impact Deal includes the introduction of specific accompanying activities to companies, focused on increasing and maximizing impact, in order to enhance the effectiveness of the initiative.

Edoardo Braccio, Project Manager of Spoke 2, presented the NODES project to all kick-off participants today.

Bin-e, Daedalus AI, Gocleer, Kreios Space, Mentessa, Opt/Net, Paperbox Health, Planet Watch, Relearn, The Predictive Company, Untap, Valuebin, Virtuleap, Volvero, and Xnext are the 15 impact enterprises selected for the second edition of Impact Deal that begin their journey today at OGR Turin.

The Program is promoted by Fondazione CRT, OGR Torino and Microsoft and managed by TOP-IX, in collaboration with ISI Foundation, Ashoka and Impact Hub In addition, City of Turin, SNAM Foundation, BioEnerys, Sella, The Data Appeal Company - Almawave Group, Tim and WINDTRE are partners as Data Club Members (data providers)