Rcalls Concludes the RESTART Mentorship Program
Torino, October 2025
Rcalls in the Plug and Play RESTART Program
Earlier this year, Rcalls joined the RESTART Mentorship and Entrepreneurship Program promoted by Politecnico di Torino and Plug and Play Tech Center under Spoke 4 – Programmable Networks for Future Services and Media.
Rcalls has successfully completed the RESTART Mentorship Program, a program coordinated by Plug and Play Tech Center, which brought together startups developing next-generation solutions in AI, programmable networks, and digital transition technologies.
Throughout the program, Rcalls had the opportunity to engage with researchers, mentors, and industry experts, refining its AI-powered quality management platform and exploring new opportunities for integration within manufacturing and insurance ecosystems.
This milestone reinforces Rcalls’s mission to help SMEs save on product recall and liability insurance, through more accurate risk assessments generated by its AI-driven quality system, and strengthens its connection with Europe’s most dynamic research and innovation networks.
About Rcalls
Rcalls is an Italian innovative start-up, founded on May 2025 and headquartered in Turin. Its mission is to apply new and innovative AI-based algorithms to help companies save on product liability and recall insurance through an accurate assessment of the risk of defective products. The young company already serves various customers across Europe.
About Plug and Play
Plug and Play is the world’s largest open innovation platform: on one side, it connects startups with leading corporates; on the other, it invests in and facilitates investments to help startups grow. This is achieved through a global approach that eases internationalization and relationships with Silicon Valley. Launched in 2006 and co-founded by Saeed Amidi in the legendary Lucky Building in Silicon Valley – where Google, PayPal, and Dropbox took their first steps – today Plug and Play operates in over 60 cities worldwide and is recognized as a leading innovation platform, with over 570 corporate partners, 90,000 startups in its proprietary database, and a total investment value exceeding $12 billion in companies such as Dropbox, PayPal, N26, and Hippo.
In Italy, local offices (with associated acceleration programs) currently focus on Food & Beverage, Fintech, Sustainability, Automotive, Aerospace, and Smart Cities. In April 2019, Plug and Play opened its first Italian office in Milan, focused on Food & Beverage (with Tetra Pak and Barilla) and Fintech (with UniCredit and Unipol), later complemented by Sustainability (with A2A, Eni, Snam, Sol Group, and Gruppo Hera) and other partners, including Amplifon, Cheisi, Atlas Sgr, Fincantieri, and Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane.
In July 2021, the Modena office was opened, dedicated to Automotive with the launch of Motor Valley Accelerator (in partnership with CDP Venture Capital, CRIT, Fondazione Modena, UniCredit, and corporate partners STMicroelectronics, Dallara, Agrati, Unipol, OMR, and Gruppo Hera). In April 2022, a new office dedicated to Aerospace and Advanced Hardware was inaugurated in Turin, Takeoff Accelerator – an initiative of CDP Venture Capital, promoted by co-investors of the UniCredit Program and Fondazione CRT, with OGR Torino as Innovation and Networking Partner, Leonardo, AVIO, and Unione Industriali Torino as Corporate Partners, and the European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency as members of the Scientific Council.
In 2024, DualTech by Takeoff was launched in Turin, part of NATO’s DIANA network, to accelerate the development of cutting-edge dual-use technologies for defense and commerce. Also in 2024, a Catania office was opened with CrossConnect, dedicated to the Infrastructure sector (in partnership with CDP Venture Capital, Elis, and corporate partners Eni, Saipem, Buzzi, and Sonatrach Raffineria Italiana).
About Politecnico di Torino
Politecnico di Torino is Italy’s leading engineering school, founded amid a wave of technical-scientific renewal that, in the mid-19th century, saw the establishment of Europe’s most prestigious polytechnic institutions. Founded in 1859 as the School of Application for Engineers, it became the Royal Polytechnic of Turin in 1906. For over 160 years, Politecnico di Torino has been training professionals in engineering, architecture, design, and urban planning with rigor, integrity, and high-quality standards.
The university has continuously evolved, establishing itself among Europe’s top technical universities for education and research, with 38,800 students – 21% international – from 122 countries, and approximately 1,250 faculty members.
In a rapidly changing global context—shaped by disruptive phenomena such as globalization, climate change, population aging, and the emergence of increasingly pervasive technologies – the university must evolve to continue generating societal impact. Politecnico di Torino positions itself as a “platform university”: open, inclusive, connected to professional and industrial worlds, and playing a key role in innovation and lifelong learning, acting as a driving force for sustainable societal development.
About RESTART
The RESTART program (“RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smart”) is the largest public research and development program ever undertaken in Italy in the telecommunications sector.
RESTART is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU under the PNRR – M4C2, Investment 1.3, Notice no. 341 of March 15, 2022, by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), with a budget of €116 million over three years, starting January 2023.
RESTART aims to shape the evolution of telecommunications in Italy, revitalizing a sector with world-class expertise and experience, focusing on the main scientific and technological themes in telecommunications, including all types of related systems and networks, for both human and non-human users.
