Startups

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.

HIGHVERTER provides an energy storage service that combines the easy access of second-life batteries with the reliability and safety of an innovative technology.

Your Free Energy has developed and patented a hybrid system that combines vertical axis wind turbines, solar panels, and storage batteries to provide clean, self-sufficient, low environmental impact energy.

GQenergy was born with the aim of designing and manufacturing eco-sustainable products. Thanks to its technology, GQenergy aims to change the way of supplying energy to any device with a battery, thus significantly reducing costs and pollution while providing greater autonomy. 

NostrAEnergy offers consultance services in the field of energy saving, through the design, production and marketing of innovative processes of energy qualification and mitigation to climate change in civil and residential buildings.

La neo impresa ha sviluppato e commercializza CELESTINO, dispositivo intelligente dotato di micro sensori che permettono il monitoraggio della quantità e della qualità di due fluidi in particolare: la risorsa idrica domestica (linea AGUA) e il carburante (linea FUEL).Celestino permette quindi il miglioramento della qualità delle emissioni in atmosfera grazie al controllo della reale composizione del carburante immesso nel serbatoio, oltre a ridurre il consumo idrico potabile tramite controllo delle quantità consumate.

inThinkers aims to revolutionise human and business relationships, simplifying and constantly renewing them by supporting positive, ethical, innovative, and sustainable social change.

Alga&Zyme Factory is an R&D company focussed on the development of innovative biotechnology solutions for systems and processes that improve environmental and economic sustainability within the agro-industrial, agro-energy, cosmeceutical and nutraceutical sectors.The innovation of Alga & Zyme Factory consists in the combination of two previously independent areas of production - production of microalgae for biomass, and the synthesis of hydrolytic enzymes in tobacco plants - in order to:

REA s.r.l. - Reliable Energy Advisors' operations in the renewable energy sector can be divided into three important areas:

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.

Raiot is developing an integrated system for creating and managing energy communities, combining territorial mapping for the installation of solar power plants, a predictive meteorological algorithm for energy optimization, and an app for monitoring and sharing energy.

Kinsect have developed an industrial process for producing protein flour for animal feed, based on large scale insect breeding.The startup is in a sector that is growing rapidly in response to a need for protein sources. The EU imports more than 60% of the protein used for animal feed and a recent general increase in prices has been caused by growing demand from breeders, falling fish yields from the sea, expansion limits on agricultural land, and also climate change.

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.

Founded by a University of Ferrara research group, Amon-X has evolved entrepreneurially, with strong research and development experience in the field of automatic monitoring. The company name is an acronym of Automatic Monitoring, while the X expresses its multi-sectoral connotation. As regards academic training, the team (members and partners) is composed of physicists, geologists and electronics engineers.

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

Argi Tech make and sell premixed clay-based plaster, along with natural and recycled products for bio-architecture. Our main innovation is the product, "Argi Lite Bio Thermal Plaster".This is an indoor thermal plaster based on clay, organically cultivated hemp, recycled cellulose, and recycled cellulose flock. Our other products are:

Stramba has designed a new type of rigging wing that can offer incredible performances.We have great partnerships with the Industrial Engineering Department of the Università di Bologna, with Q-id, style and design focal centre for important brands, the Cantieri Zuanelli and other professional players in the field.Stramba's main mission is to adapt this new technology to all areas of nautical businesses to bring to the market all the benefits and advantages it can offer.

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.

Established as a limited company in June 2010, Techno GF is engaged in the study, development and application of energy-saving software. Working on the premise that solar radiation behaves in a similar manner to the propagation of radio waves, this startup uses a sophisticated ray tracing program for the prediction of radio coverage in an urban environment, developing it to calculate solar intensity (in collaboration with the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems at the University of Bologna).