Startups

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.

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.

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.

VAIMEE is an innovative startup and spinoff from the University of Bologna established in 2020. Its technology enables development of modular data-driven applications in an extremely safe and scalable environment.Based on Open Source technologies, VAIMEE's horizontal Milkydataway solution is very flexible and can be implemented in any context, especially in domains characterized by heterogeneous, unstructured, and dynamic data.

REALVT SRL was founded in June 2019 and is an innovative start-up in the production of multimedia content for physical training with a virtual trainer. It includes customized software for management of audio-video devices and creation of automatic schedules for programmed delivery.

GO-OZ is a company with three partners, Pietro Galifi, Stefano Moretti, and Alessandro Furlan, arriving from previous experiences in computer graphics, creation of multimedia systems, and in particular the development of systems and content for virtual reality, a technological sector they have followed for more than 35 years. GO-OZ was founded as a company dedicated to the development of new sensory devices for virtual reality.

Caffeina is an Italian Creative Company that transforms brands in Experience Brands, thanks to the creation of impactful experiences that input new energy in people and brands.It has a team of over 130 professionals, who work on integrated communications campaigns and digital innovation projects in multidisciplinary teams, that give structure to Strategy, Design, Communication and Technology.

VIBRE is a startup that was founded in Cesena and operates in the sector of brain-computer interfaces.The startup, founded by a team of bio-engineers, software engineers and clinicians, aims to make brain-computer interfaces available for mass consumption, giving companies in the sector the opportunity of developing products and applications that are fully or partly controlled by the brain.

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.

22hbg SRL was established in Ferrara in October 2011 as a Digital Systems Integrator and since then has invested in research and development in the field of radio technologies to create dedicated and customised hardware and software solutions.

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.).

Djinne aims to revolutionize cultural tourism through a multisided freemium platform that provides customized digital tourist guides. In a collaborative approach we enable users to share stories and information. This enables travellers to discover the most authentic locations, the most intense flavours, and the most unusual stories.

Improovo brings to market the first crowdsourcing platform exclusively dedicated to the world of business training and management consultancy. In its web platform, supply and demand of business training are brought together through a peer-to-peer brokerage service among companies looking for the best trainers and training providers.

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.

Vshop is a SaaS platform that enables companies to easily, quickly, and intuitively set up e-commerce outlets based on 3D environments.

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.

Horeca Job is an innovative platform that aims to revolutionize the paradigm for finding and selecting personnel for the Ho.Re.Ca (hotel, restaurant, and catering) sector, which is among the most badly affected sectors by the Covid pandemic.Traditional methods based on advertisements and submitting CVs are no longer adequate to rapidly return to full staffing levels and satisfy the new needs of candidates and companies.