Startups

An innovative social startup in the field of culture and cultural tourism in general, with an emphasis on Italian language and culture. It carries out research and development into new technologies and digital content for the communication of cultural products and services.

Founded in January 2014, Humarker s.r.l. is an innovative start-up based in Parma. Humarker works to promote Italian culture and heritage through real and virtual structures, and through business models that embrace innovation and experimentation with new technologies. The idea is to enter the market of augmented reality (AR) by developing application frameworks with which to develop and market apps for the Cultural Heritage sector. 

An app that allows art enthusiasts to carry the world's leading museums in their pockets and to experience them in a completely new way.

Eshu Adv is a media production house specialized in video production for TV spots, Internet, short films, documentaries, 2-D and 3-D animated motion graphics.Eshu develop projects like multimedia museums, applying a variety of technologies from video projection to augmented reality, virtual reality, and holograms. Eshu Adv are active in the creation of an innovative platform for stock images and photographs for the province of Romagna.

Cyclando is a platform comprising an e-commerce website and a navigation app that collects organized trips and verified GPS cycling route tracks. The aim is to create a platform where tour operators, hire outlets, and guides who want to offer guided tours can contact customers, initially all over Italy, but when fully implemented also all over Europe.Cyclando therefore present themselves as a tour operator with the aim of becoming the go-to digital platform for the European cycle touring market.

We operate in the Local Search field, which means putting local businesses into contact with each other using map based instruments like Google My Business, Facebook Local, and similar.We target chains with more than 20 sales outlets or activities that need extreme automation.

Ondafilm is a film production, post-production, and distribution house that uses the 360 degree cinema format. We apply an in-depth knowledge of cinematic techniques to present both narratives and company or tourist scenarios. Our strength lies in the application of a film production logic for all our products, be these commercial or narrative based.

This new company is involved in the design, production, and marketing of furnishing and fashion accessories. They develop innovations in applied physics using polymethylmethacrylate in the lighting accessories sector. The aim is to develop optical properties for optimizing lighting capacity within the limits of the standards in force.The unique design products conceived by NICOLAZZARO implement innovations in applied physics capable of achieving new breakthroughs, with patents pending, for the protection of human health.

Studio Croma Animation is an animation studio specialized in the production of cinematic works and audio-visual content for advertising and Internet. They apply the stop-motion technique, using sequences of photographs to create movement and lend personality to objects and inanimate puppets. The creative process that distinguishes their products is characterized by a perfect mix of hand-crafted construction techniques, technology, and digital processing.

CrossHyde is an innovative integrated digital system capable of video communication with a profiled public using any glass and/or Plexiglas surface without modifying its original nature (transparency). Applied to windows or any other transparent surface, it is capable, when triggered and for a specific time, of transforming a window into a screen for communicating messages defined on the basis of the general characteristics of the audience present, as detected using sensors (e.g. man/woman, age range, etc.).

NowMyPlace Srl is an intermediation company operating in the experiential travel sector. They currently serve the area around Lake Garda but plan to expand activity to other tourist areas that match their mission parameters. The company interfaces consumers through the e-commerce platform, nowmyplace.com.

iThalia is an innovative start-up of social media inspiration that has developed a revolutionary patent that creates secure local networks independent of Internet.

ITIMERE SRL use their brand “La Macchina del Tempo” [The Time Machine] to manage a Virtual Reality Museum in Bologna. Here the public use special visors for various VR experiences in historical reconstruction, immersing themselves in first person and interacting with the environment in an active way.

SMACE, Smart Work in a Smart Place was founded in Ferrara in December 2020 based on an idea of Marta Romero and Andrea Droghetti to transform remote working into a work benefit.SMACE is a B2B solution for the management of work-spaces for company teams. By aggregating third party premises as alternatives to the office or home, together with a series of services suited to the work carried out by the groups, SMACE represents an ideal solution for externalizing management of the hybrid office.

SuperAbile is an MVR (Mixed Virtual Reality) system that creates time windows, opened by company-owned AI applications, at the main features of interest along a museum or historical tour.

INCREMENTA is an innovative startup active in the digital marketing sector with a strong vocation for neuromarketing, which is the application of neuroscience to traditional marketing to investigate the behaviour of consumers in response to advertising stimuli.

Cogit AI is specialized in the development of customized artificial intelligence solutions for companies, public authorities, and academic bodies.

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.

Relaia aspire to become a yardstick for end-to-end collective intelligence solutions. We are an innovative startup and benefit company with the participation of the University of Bologna, constructing digital instruments for a future in which the social and relational dimension is included into systems of automation, simulation, and forecasting for planning and strategies in local areas.

inThinkers aims to revolutionise human and business relationships, simplifying and constantly renewing them by supporting positive, ethical, innovative, and sustainable social change.