Startups

Baggie is a very young start-up founded in September 2021 with a simple mission: seek out excellent high-quality products and combine them together without wastage, to enhance appreciation of the extraordinary culinary heritage of our area, Romagna! We carefully select all our products, assess their provenance, processing, and obviously their quality! 

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.

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.

2G Carbons S.r.l. intend to develop technologies, including a patented system (MgOCarbon), that reduce pollutants in waste water and recover nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorous), transforming them into high-efficiency sustainable fertilizers. The approach establishes a circular economic process that exploits the purification cycle to produce fertilizers and contribute to environmental sustainability.

SeriPet is an innovative startup that is transforming the pet health sector with a scientifically advanced and fully customized approach. The aim is to offer effective made-to-measure solutions, exceeding the limits of general food supplements and actually improving the quality of life of pets.

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.

WLHemp is developing an industrial production cycle for hemp, with an integrated approach that starts with cultivation, all the way to the processing and marketing of semifinished goods.

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.

ITALYLUNCH is the first Italian cooking fast-food outlet in Europe based on the Food & Travel formula. The objective is to provide customers with traditional Italian meals with marked regional characteristics at a low enough cost to be affordable even for those with limited funds.

MagicFood is an interactive hardware toy designed to help children (4-9 years) to develop and maintain healthy and sustainable eating habits. This is achieved by combining play with consolidated principles derived from psychology and behavioural science to achieve an effective education process that is engaging and motivating.

Redess Srl is the first Italian and European certified organic supply chain for SUMAC.The potential markets for our innovative sumac based products include: food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and industrial applications (biocides and insecticides).Redess have the benefit of collaborating with the universities of Parma, Milan, Camerino, and Palermo.

aMarcello srl is an innovative startup established in 2023 with the aim of revolutionising the fast food sector, combining the fried fish tradition of the Romagnola Riviera with technological innovation applied to its preparation, with the aim of satisfying the growing demand for cheap, high quality, easily accessible food.

The 7G Company was founded with the aim of developing innovative technology for roasting coffee and other granular materials, creating machines designed, produced, and marketed in Italy and abroad.

AeroDron is one of the first Italian startups dedicated to services that use Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). Since it was founded in 2013, AeroDron has researched and developed solutions in the civil sector, aimed at meeting the requirements of various industries and of public administration, making use of the immense value of the aerial images, using state of the art flight technologies, sensing, vision and post-processing.

TomaPaint is an innovative startup with the objective of marketing a bio-resin extracted from agro-industry waste tomato (mostly skins), which forms the main component of bio-paints or bio-coatings, for use in the food packaging sector. The founders of TomaPaint derive from different training backgrounds:

Ecoliving is dedicated to the civilian economy and the promotion of human activities and a sustainable economies that are not wholly concerned with profit.

Alleviamo is a startup founded in 2018 on the strength of Sergio Lusetti’s enthusiasm for innovation in pig farming since 1947.