Startups

Weeshop is an app that guides consumers for grocery shopping, helping them to analyse what they eat and find healthier and more sustainable alternatives, in an independent, made-to-measure approach. More than 8 out of 10 consumers would like to make healthier and more sustainable choices, but almost 7 out of 10 exhibit a need for guidance in this process (Deloitte study, 2021).We offer the simplest most complete instrument on the market to help them make better choices.

The Food Hub SRL Benefit Company is an innovative startup that supports the food and agriculture ecosystem with information, training, and consultancy services for stakeholders in the sector. The mission is to participate in growth and innovation in our sector through constant provision of quality services. The aim is to become a yardstick in Italy for innovation in the food and agriculture sector.

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.

OpenTEA is a start-up company providing customised services for the development of e-learning courses within its own web platform, www.opentea.eu. 

Vandelli is developing a sustainable food distribution model based on the promotion of the Mediterranean diet and utilization of organic and biodynamic products originating from fair trade production chains.The company provides a digital marketplace to allow small producers to directly access the final market, promoting a short transparent supply chain.

IUV is a Startup aimed at Research and Development of Plastic-free Packaging Solutions and Edible Coatings for Fresh Food Products through "Naturameri." The solutions offered by IUV are designed:

Liocreo has re-investigated the technology of lyophilization (freeze-drying or cryodesiccation) of foodstuffs (also applicable in pharmacology) and developed a unique patented technology.

Innovative startup consisting of engineers and specialist technicians who design, develop and market innovative devices. Particularly involved with drones, food transportation and industrial automation.

Bulltec doesigns and builds electric sorting machinery for potatoes, onions and other vegetables.Our equipment is innovative, accurate and versatile, with limited costs and very low maintanance needed.The electric sorting machinery by Bulltec are equipped with an intuitive management software and an extremely accurate optical sorting system that allows for a rapid selection of potatoes, onions and other vegetables - even if of irregular shapes.

Winet designs and realizes wireless sensor networks (WSN), mainly for environmental monitoring, industrial and landslides. The idea arose  by the two partners, both graduates specialists in Systems Engineering and Information Technology of ICT, and it is the provision of a comprehensive service monitor for customer-specific needs, composed by  a network of wireless sensors and subsequent analysis of data collected through monitoring.

Machines and consultancy for sustainable packaging solutions.

In vitro cell cultivation is a widely applied technology worldwide in the fields of pharmacology, cosmetics, diagnostics, and research, normally using foetal bovine serum (FBS) as a nutrition source. However, its use is subject to the limitations of high and constantly rising costs, and some ethical issues since the production process is mainly based outside of the European continent.

AgroMateriae was established after three years of research in the laboratories of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where excellent experimental results led to submission of a patent application for WPL (2019). It was accredited as an innovative startup by the University of Modena, with the objective of ramping up the technology to an industrial scale.

Our service allows customers to purchase unsold food products at 50% of their list price through our proprietary application; this allows a drastic decrease of food waste by simplifying the resale of products that would otherwise be thrown away.We ensure total transparency of the service regarding product quality and care for customer needs.

Turtle Srl offers the first sustainability management software that quantifies the environmental, social, and economic impact of companies in diverse sectors, both manufacturers and services. A quantitative approach and close analysis of company data makes it possible to derive reliable information about company sustainability, avoiding communication of non-verifiable and non comparable results.

TAUANITO | A family of patented IOT sensors for large scale industrial applications.Tauanito InAir for monitoring air quality.Tauanito LOGI for transport monitoring.Tauanito Food 100 for food processing and preservation.

ALGAE spa was founded in 2018 as an innovative start-up operating in the micro-algae and cyanobacteria (especially Spirulina) market. The company's operating base is on the Soliera plain, where a team of researchers have developed their own "tank-based photo bio-reactor (PBR)" technology, with micro-algae ecosystems recreated in each individual unit.

This startup has developed a ketogenic piadina flatbread that is healthy, low carb, light, and gluten-free with the aim of satisfying the demands of consumers following specific diets and looking for functional foods that support a healthy dynamic lifestyle.

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.