Startups

Alga&Zyme Factory is an R&D company focussed on the development of innovative biotechnology solutions for systems and processes that improve environmental and economic sustainability within the agro-industrial, agro-energy, cosmeceutical and nutraceutical sectors.

The innovation of Alga & Zyme Factory consists in the combination of two previously independent areas of production - production of microalgae for biomass, and the synthesis of hydrolytic enzymes in tobacco plants - in order to:

Kopjra is the brainchild of a group of computer science and law students looking to find entrepreneurial synergy in their respective business areas.

The company's core business is currently internet copyright protection, with a view to acquiring the technologies and expertise to enable expansion into trademark, patent and privacy protection.

Kopjra is one of the TIM #WCAP Bologna 2014 startup batch, one of the EIT ICT Labs coached companies and has received initial funding from BAN Custodi di Successo.

Werealize.it is a crowdfunding platform that offers designers and digital craftsmen the opportunity to target their innovative product ideas to an interested community, from whom they request financial support for an initial production (micro-series). In return, the lenders will receive a preview of a limited set of products that they have helped to create, often with a touch of personalisation.

There are three innovative elements to the project:

ChemStamp (Services for Traceability, Authenticity and the Monitoring of Process and Product) began life as a university spin-off and aims to create services for companies in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Its objectives are as follows:

1. the support and protection of the quality of the product

2. the control and monitoring of the raw materials used in the production process

3. the control and monitoring of the processes designed to reduce time and costs and improve the quality of the finished product

4. the optimisation of new formulations

FitStadium is a training app devised by the Cesena team of the same name.

The startup was founded by Denis Brighi and Luca Domeniconi, graduates in Computer Engineering at Cesena, and Milos Jankovic, a Telecommunications Engineering graduate at Bologna.

FitStadium's primary objective was to offer all fitness enthusiasts an online meeting point: so in September 2012, the FitStadium.com social network was launched.

Cosaordino is a digital interface between users and participating restaurants that offers online users the ability to order lunch and dinner at home.

Starting with the delivery address, the site allows users to choose what to order from local restaurants, with the option of changing their order by adding or removing ingredients, as well as being able to choose any options such cooking preferences or choice of complimentary drinks. 

MAPO (Most Advanced Process Optimisation) engineers and markets highly innovative and highly technological software products and related services, associated to the dematerialisation of paper documents. 

MAPO has its roots in national and European R&D projects in the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The company is therefore very willing to collaborate fully on industrial innovation projects that require the rapid development of prototypes or the engineering of existing prototypes, related to their skills.

G-Com s.r.l.s. is an innovative company in interactive and cross-media content production for the entertainment and advertising sectors.

The working group, which comes from advertising and from traditional television, combines the latest technology with interactive storytelling, whether built around a sponsor or pure entertainment. The aim is to involve the public, from spectator-consumers to protagonists in the choices and in the story.