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.

Air Factory is an innovative start-up based in Piacenza and incubated at the Urban Hub. We design and develop services to validate and certify the performance quality of environmental data from test laboratories that monitor atmospheric emissions.

Research, production, and marketing of innovative patented dermocosmetic and nutraceutical products.Mitochon Dermocosmetics is an innovative company in the dermocosmetic sector, specialized in wellness and skin care products. In addition to orodispersible food supplements like MITOFAST, we also offer a complete line of antiage products, including day and night emulsions, serum, and detergent.

The HR-Tech Platform promotes the development of personnel through mentoring programmes.Companies are starting to face the challenge of interesting and retaining talented individuals, but they are failing. Mentoring is a component that helps tip the balance.

Inwire develops compact wearable devices for the protection of personal items in private and public settings. The system comprises two components: Tag, a bracelet device with integrated vibration, and Anchor, a device fitted with a buzzer for insertion into bags, wallets, or smartphones.

We are all different but medical therapies are not customized: producing a pharmaceutical takes years and costs millions. The solution is Bioprint3rs, a single machine for infinite customizations. By using a 3D printer, it is enough simply to change the formula in order to automate all the research and development processes and then immediately initiate industrial production.

SEFFILINE was founded in 2018 with the aim of making autologous regenerative therapy accessible to everyone. For some years, autologous regenerative therapy using mesenchymal stem cells of adipose origin has been considered a state-of-art technology, and is supported by an enormous scientific literature. In 2019 SEFFILINE started producing and selling the first and only medical device that enables autologous regenerative therapy using mesenchymal stem cells of adipose origin.

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.

NEEDO is an on-demand nursery school that can be set up anywhere for any period of time in response to the needs of families, companies, or small communities. The aim is to help reconcile home and work schedules and female employment. It is an educational service that puts together a complete package of services: an enclosed space (making use of regenerated marine containers from a circular-economy perspective), a sustainable approach, educational design, trained and qualified teachers, canteen, and all services.

Wellmicro s.r.l. is the fruit of years of academic scientific activity in the field of intestinal microbial ecology and was created by researchers with profound knowledge of scientific literature in the field and years of collaboration with the best labs in Europe.

The company originates from the Interdepartmental Research Centre Biopharmanet-Tec at the University of Parma, at the hub of Emilia Romagna's high tech network, and produces innovative medicines in powder form for administration by inhalation of antibiotics and chemotherapy.Plumestars was selected for inclusion in the SeedLab acceleration program 2013, came second at Innovaday 2013, and got down to the final five of 620 startups at the Gaetano Marzotto Prize in 2013, where it won the Unicredit Talent of Ideas award.

Antiaging Italian Food srl is an innovative startup working in the nutrition and wellness area with a particular focus on antiaging nutrition. The company's core business is the development of software and advanced nutrition solutions designed to promote longevity and well-being.

REEL has developed dedicated software for the medical sector that simplifies and speeds up the device test and certification procedure. The platform automates pre-compilation of test reports, reducing times, costs, and error margins.

Born from an idea by university researchers, our technology came to life in 2017 as a spin-off of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, following ten years of research and innovation.

Miosynt develop technological solutions for physical and mental well-being, combining vibro-acoustic stimulation, photon light, and neurofeedback.The company is currently committed to the design of a new multifunctional couch for wellness centres, equipped with vibration units managed by an integrated electronic card.

JEM Tech was born out of experience in operating theatres during doctorate teaching in Verona hospital. A lack of assessment of cardiac kinetics was observed during surgical operations due to limitations in current technology.JEM Tech therefore developed and built the first videocardiograph (VCG), a non-invasive medical device based on artificial intelligence (A.I.) capable of assessing the mechanical operation of the heart in real-time using only a video camera.

BoneArmed was founded in 2023 in Bologna, operating in the orthopaedic biomedical sector. The startup produces and markets an implantable medical device for treating knee arthritis, applying a completely innovative approach from the perspectives of both cause of arthritic pain and the implanting of the device.