Startups

Leafbox is an online search engine for finding tourist facilities (restaurants, hotels, B&Bs, farms, wellness centres and spas, etc.) and an e-commerce tool for buying tourist and leisure time services, as well as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, pet-friendly and eco-friendly catering services. 

The business concept is to offer a suite of software products specialized in the processing of natural language and that help companies automate and improve management of their text based data.E-Plato offers two different but complimentary products.

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.

Bank Station is specialized in financial education. Straightforward language is used for training content (videos, podcasts, texts), organizing seminars, workshops, and live events for schools, companies, and private individuals.

Nestart arose as a spin-off from Bordoni Bonfiglio srl, a structural metalwork company that forms and laser cuts metal components for various sectors. Each day, Bordoni's production generates waste sheet metal offcuts. Nestart was established to treat these leftovers not as waste but as a potential for transformation into prestige items.

Cyclando is a platform comprising an e-commerce website and a navigation app that collects organized trips and verified GPS cycling route tracks. The aim is to create a platform where tour operators, hire outlets, and guides who want to offer guided tours can contact customers, initially all over Italy, but when fully implemented also all over Europe.Cyclando therefore present themselves as a tour operator with the aim of becoming the go-to digital platform for the European cycle touring market.

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.

ITIMERE SRL use their brand “La Macchina del Tempo” [The Time Machine] to manage a Virtual Reality Museum in Bologna. Here the public use special visors for various VR experiences in historical reconstruction, immersing themselves in first person and interacting with the environment in an active way.

Cammeo DiVino is an innovative start-up to help relaunch Italian companies. This makes digital culture sustainable for the food and catering industry through targeted courses, also under an annual subscription affordable for any agricultural producer, along with free made-to-measure business instruments.

A platform on which emerging artists can collect funds from investors, represented by fans of their social media channels, relatives, friends, and other subscribed artists.

Targado produces and distributed decorative number plate holders for cars, motorbikes, campers, and other vehicles, focusing on high quality materials, UV and weather resistant finishes, and compatibility with standard EU number plates. The products add style to vehicles, are easy to fit, and are designed to last over time.

The corporate purpose is to supply services in the sphere of archaeology and cultural heritage.Archeosmart offers innovative methods and technologies in the academic world for provision of services that include:

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.

Cogit AI is specialized in the development of customized artificial intelligence solutions for companies, public authorities, and academic bodies.

EmmeBo is a company offering family friendly products and services. Based on the idea of two female businesswomen from Bologna, the company finished among the top 10 finalists in the StartCup Emilia Romagna in 2018, and was awarded the Manageritalia Emilia Romagna prize for a product dedicated to families.

OfficinAcrobatica SSD is a young female-led non-profit start-up, founded in September 2021, dedicated to contemporary circus and the psycho-physical well-being of individuals.

Egoundesign® is a design and production studio based in Bologna, founded in 2020 by four young entrepreneurs under 35.It is a modern workshop for skilled artisans, combining the experience and know-how of its collaborators with an approach driven by enthusiasm and curiosity, proudly embodying the spirit of "Made in Italy".Awards & Recognitions

B Side is a neuromarketing laboratory that tests communication stimuli (advertising campaigns, websites, e-commerce, graphics, logos, etc.) using neurophysiological measuring instruments (eye trackers, electroencephalography, galvanic skin response, facial coding).CUSTOMER SEGMENTS

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.