Startups

Established in August 2011 by Pietro Ferraris, Simone Biagiotti and Michele Orsi, map2app is a web platform that enables anyone to create a mobile travel app, or a local guide in the form of a native app for iPhone and Android, and distribute it - getting paid in the process - through leading application stores (Apple Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore).Creating an app using map2app is as simple as creating a blog. All you need to do is enter the content, choose the look of the app (template or individual items) and publish it.

Caucaso’s cultural project was born out of a unique convergence between scientific tension and artistic production, focused on cinema and documentary.Created as an informal collective in the early 2000s, Caucaso evolved into an international production company based in Bologna, Italy. During the following years, the Caucaso society established a network of co-productions within both the Italian and international production landscapes.

Travelware is an innovative startup dedicated to the development, production, and marketing of innovative hi-tech services that facilitate digitalization and innovation in the tourist sector. Through the conception and development of a technological platform, Travelware aims to promote sustainable tourism and showcase the historical and environmental patrimony of tourist destinations.

Marketing Tools is a dedicated meta-search engine that helps companies and marketing experts source and use marketing and communications tools available online in a smart and functional way.As well as a total of over 7000 tools, we have specific webinars to make the most of the softwares listed and a dashboard to connect the selected tools.  

The underlying aim of the ”Rfmcube” computer program is to enable small to middle-sized companies active on Internet to increase the effectiveness of their online marketing strategies with an easy-to-use but exceptionally specific instrument. It strikes a balance between the need to achieve growth in sales, and the need to reduce management costs for company information and marketing processes.

Antreem is based in Imola and specialises in the development of mobile computing services. It is a young and dynamic company formed by Fabio Poli, Stefano Maggiore and Imola Informatica, a web and new technologies business that has created projects and offered consultation since 2012. Technological innovation is Antreem's mission, and from the combined skills of Stefano, Fabio and Imola Informatica, it has grown into an innovative and technologically savvy partner for its customers.

BeeComs is a product that exploits the most favourable combination of digital and proximity technologies, enabling manufacturing companies to make concrete long-term savings by reducing production waste. Our digital system offers complete solutions to the 3 major needs of manufacturing companies: analysis, production, and safety, all in a single customized package that is flexible, extremely effective, and easy to use.

Thipibo arranges medium and long term rent agreements for students and off-site workers.Our focus is on the individuals involved, providing a profile of users with relevant information, interests, habits, and lifestyle details to ensure identification of ideal cohabitants and harmonious communal living. We support the search process with algorithms to match up profiles that most resemble each other.

This startup is a media agency with the objective of promoting cultural organizations and new professions in the digital sectors among young people. This is achieved through a series of communication media and instruments (podcasts, social media content, live events) with an innovative composition and tone suited to our reference public, mainly composed of young people under 35.

HQ Consulting develops software solutions and provides consultancy for company management. It supports other companies, in particular SMEs, for the digitalization of operating processes through automation, reporting systems, assistance, and dedicated training.

An ICT startup offering web services related to tourism publishing and the promotion of places, thanks to a team of location-based information service specialists.The company's namesake site PoiStory.it (currently in test phase) allows users to share descriptions of places and events, creating in the process personalised tour guides.

Doorway Tech are developing a digital platform for the release and administration of illiquid digital assets, with the aim of rendering them liquid using blockchain and smart contracts. 

Cue Press is the first entirely digital publishing house dedicated to the performing arts.Channeling the best of the production work in the field and redesigning the idea of "niche" in a global market, Cue Press bases its competitive advantage on the value of the contents it offers and the uniqueness of the technological infostructure.

Youmarell is a new streaming platform that brings building sites within the reach of everyone. Inspired by the Bologna dialect expression "umarell" (elderly men who pass their time watching building sites with great enthusiasm and curiosity), we capture this cultural phenomenon and amplify it for a wider public.