Startups

 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.

OLIO aims to simplify and automate all the processes involved in online sales of aftermarket vehicle spares, providing our partners with a unique and specialized solution for integrating their warehouse stocks with the major European marketplaces and e-commerce.

Yougo is a company founded in 2020 by professionals working in the world of events and entertainment, with head office in Bologna. The company was established with the aim of sustaining innovation in the organization and participation in events using modern technology and in line with national and European policies for digital transition towards environmental and economic sustainability.

For 15 years Optit has been offering IT solutions based on advanced mathematics, data science, analytics, and optimization in support of company innovation.We improve efficiency and effectiveness for medium and large sized companies in diverse sectors (energy, refuse, logistics, retail sales) through innovative support systems for decision making.

Ecoinnovazione is a spin-off from ENEA, accredited as an industrial research laboratory in the Emilia-Romagna High-Tech network. We offer companies and public authorities customized solutions for the assessment and promotion of sustainability in the environmental, economic, and social dimensions. We develop products while also addressing organizations and local territory.

Similla offer innovative digital solutions for the development of advanced materials in hi-tech applications.Similla integrates virtual models, artificial intelligence, and big data in order to accelerate the design of materials and innovative processes for critical applications in sectors of significant technological impact like: advanced manufacturing, health (biomedical devices, biomaterials), energy (batteries and storage, solar power, etc.), the environment, and agri-food (sensors, etc.).

Caboto create automated solutions for inspecting sensitive infrastructures without custodianship or characterized by high risk.

Shifton is an advanced design studio for social innovation with a clear vision of contemporaneity. In an increasingly fluid and dynamic world, we believe in an approach to design capable of enabling favorable conditions for change, taking care of processes and outlining new scenarios.

SocialCities was founded in 2014, with an initial team of 5 developers and digital strategists, to create the LocalJob project. Launched as an innovative Startup, it won numerous awards, including TimWcap, Amazon Web Services and Startup Chile.

FeatApp is a free downloadable app that records users' steps. The concept is: the more you walk, the more you earn, specifically in the form of discounts on healthy and tasty food.

We are a company that provides consultancy services as well as tailor made software.We bring companies forward into today’s world and support them throughout the conception and implementation process of forward-thinking digital transformation.We support companies throughout their digital transformations with the aim of improving, facilitating and automating internal processes, increasing efficiency and reducing both the technical and strategic risks of complex systems.

Caucaso’s cultural project was born out of a unique convergence between scientific tension and artistic production, focused on cinema and documentary.Created as an informal collective in the early 2000s, Caucaso evolved into an international production company based in Bologna, Italy. During the following years, the Caucaso society established a network of co-productions within both the Italian and international production landscapes.

Every day Xelia express their creativity, determination, evolutionary capacity, and skills. The company is distinguished by a special attention to the human dimension with methodological reliability, flexibility, strong professionalism, good time-keeping, and cost efficiency. The innovativeness of Xelia emerges from unique work implementations and applied technologies, which mainly come from the Open Source world.

Marketing Tools is a dedicated meta-search engine that helps companies and marketing experts source and use marketing and communications tools available online in a smart and functional way.As well as a total of over 7000 tools, we have specific webinars to make the most of the softwares listed and a dashboard to connect the selected tools.  

XOOTS is an innovative start-up established in 2023 with the mission of transforming the assessment and recruitment of talents. It enables companies to evaluate their existing employees, rapidly hire quality talents, and enhance skills through the application of generative artificial intelligence, accelerating their digital transformation objectives.

The Whole Platform is an open source technology for engineering the production of software.Based on the idea that programming is an activity concerning the development of domain languages, the Whole Platform provides an Eclipse-based Language Workbench for developing new languages, manipulating them using domain notations and transforming them using a generative model driven approach.

The underlying aim of the ”Rfmcube” computer program is to enable small to middle-sized companies active on Internet to increase the effectiveness of their online marketing strategies with an easy-to-use but exceptionally specific instrument. It strikes a balance between the need to achieve growth in sales, and the need to reduce management costs for company information and marketing processes.

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.