Startups

 Werealize.it is a crowdfunding platform that offers designers and digital craftsmen the opportunity to target their innovative product ideas to an interested community, from whom they request financial support for an initial production (micro-series). In return, the lenders will receive a preview of a limited set of products that they have helped to create, often with a touch of personalisation.There are three innovative elements to the project:

The main mission of Dsnow is to help the entire manufacturing sector to digitalize, in particular the mechanical engineering sector. Company increasingly look to digital tech for sustainability and savings.Dsnow intend to offer themselves as strategic partners to support these companies, offering a smart and fast platform on which companies can save important resources, like time and money.

An innovative startup founded in September 2013, UP2GO s.r.l.s is the brainchild of five founding members, professionals from various fields that include pharmaceuticals, food, real estate, consulting, telecommunications and technological innovation.

Fluid-A is an innovative startup that specialises in the design of fluid machines, energy conversion and exchange systems and data acquisition systems.

Komete is an innovative company that is transforming the high added value manufacturing sector applying IoT and AI solutions dedicated to manual workstations, critical but frequently neglected areas in production processes. In this setting, the absence of digital instruments leads to inefficiency, delays, and planning problems, with a loss of productivity that can exceed 20%.

JOS is an internationally patented technology, the first Smart Energy Surface where each connection point is a high-power socket, to which dozens of different devices can be docked and powered directly on the surface, saving large

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

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.

 Alma Virtual Lab was founded to bring the benefits of the new immersive technologies into sectors where development of knowledge and skills is central (education, instruction, professional training), and where artistic and technical culture (museums, theatres, events) can be divulgated in an innovative way.

WHATaECO is an innovative female startup and the first low impact B2C e-commerce that promotes ethical and sustainable brands throughout the European Union. The site is powered 100% with clean energy, the logistics is based on drop shipping without a warehouse, with transport halved and compensated, and rigorously plastic-free packaging. The site currently markets a range of over 3000 ethical and sustainable products from more than 170 Italian and foreign brands.

Neptune s.r.l. is an innovative startup, born out of the experience of its founders in industrial projects developed at the telecommunications laboratories of the University of Bologna.

TryeCo 2.0 s.r.l. was established in order to improve and expand upon the services already offered by TryeCo s.n.c. Most important amongst these is assisting designers with 2D CAD models and photorealistic renderings, as well as 3D solid printing for scale architectural models and sculptural copies for museum staging.

PashionVictim is a C2C social commerce platform, part of a limited company established in January 2012. Funded by crowdsourcing, the platform allows users from around the world to inspire one another, and share and sell items selected from affiliated fashion boutiques, earning money from sales.PashionVictim intends to seize upon the extraordinary growth of fashion-related social networks to make up for the lack of electronic commerce indulged in by independent shops (only 5% according to a survey of over 400 Reggio Emilia startups).

Piazza Arcobaleno is a marketplace for small and micro Italian artisan companies, creating a virtual community of Italian manufacturing to be promoted abroad.

Wear Srl - a startup owned by ClubItaliaInvestimenti, Aruba Spa, Boost4U (digital360.it group) and supported by Polihub -  was born in 2014  to improve industrial processes through a SaaS MEAP that allows companies to create and distribute manuals via mobile. The platform, marko.tips, allows users to view virtual information directly on real objects, thanks to an augmented reality app for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices.

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.

Nexter srl is an innovative startup established in 2021 and based in Rubiera (RE). Our mission is to design and manufacture innovative technological solutions based on electronics and IT to make our world ever more integrated, free, and collaborative. We are faithful to Italian design culture all the way from conception to design. Italian creativity and technology is built into all our products.

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.

Kopjra is the brainchild of a group of computer science and law students looking to find entrepreneurial synergy in their respective business areas.The company's core business is currently internet copyright protection, with a view to acquiring the technologies and expertise to enable expansion into trademark, patent and privacy protection.Kopjra is one of the TIM #WCAP Bologna 2014 startup batch, one of the EIT ICT Labs coached companies and has received initial funding from BAN Custodi di Successo.