Agri-food

This startup deals with the production, promotion, distribution, research and development of dried food products and ingredients, focusing closely on the demands of final customers. 

U&D Italia interpret dried vegetable products as a new potential for sustainable consumption, used to create well-balanced meals, ready-made sauces for pasta or rice, cooking stock, oven-ready products, snacks, salads, and many other read-to-use foodstuffs.

Exsulting provides rating services as well as strategic and operational consultancy for companies in the integrated sustainability field.

We apply proprietary instruments like the Embedded Sustainability Index®, the CASE® Method, and the SGIS© Integrated Sustainability Management System.

We mainly support industrial companies, in all sectors and of all sizes.

The company operates in the sale of high quality foodstuffs using refrigerators equipped with external monitors that dispense products using credit cards, apps, or other electronic instruments.

Each product on sale is tagged for real-time signalling to the data server of sales and fridge shelf time.

Microhemp Lab is a startup specialized in growing cannabis plants applying advanced techniques for tissue culture. The laboratory uses a variety of technologies and methods to obtain high quality hemp plants that are genetically stable and free of pathogens and contaminants.

The HR-Tech Platform promotes the development of personnel through mentoring programmes.

Companies are starting to face the challenge of interesting and retaining talented individuals, but they are failing. Mentoring is a component that helps tip the balance.

Kinsect have developed an industrial process for producing protein flour for animal feed, based on large scale insect breeding.

The startup is in a sector that is growing rapidly in response to a need for protein sources. The EU imports more than 60% of the protein used for animal feed and a recent general increase in prices has been caused by growing demand from breeders, falling fish yields from the sea, expansion limits on agricultural land, and also climate change.

Ecoinnovazione is a spin-off from ENEA, accredited as an industrial research laboratory in the Emilia-Romagna High-Tech network. We offer companies and public authorities customized solutions for the assessment and promotion of sustainability in the environmental, economic, and social dimensions. We develop products while also addressing organizations and local territory.

For 15 years Optit has been offering IT solutions based on advanced mathematics, data science, analytics, and optimization in support of company innovation.

We improve efficiency and effectiveness for medium and large sized companies in diverse sectors (energy, refuse, logistics, retail sales) through innovative support systems for decision making.

Redess Srl is the first Italian and European certified organic supply chain for SUMAC.

The potential markets for our innovative sumac based products include: food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and industrial applications (biocides and insecticides).

Redess have the benefit of collaborating with the universities of Parma, Milan, Camerino, and Palermo.