Startups

Walk+ is a platform that hosts digital guides for Italian walks.We apply NFC technology combined with a state-of-art application to improve the safety of hikers and promote access to local culture. Our app provides users with all the information they need for a safe excursion, including emergency numbers, location of water sources, where to eat and sleep, route, distance, and height difference.

 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ENDU is a kind of Trip Advisor for events, a service and sharing hub for fans, a marketplace for operators and a marketing tool for those operating in this and other sectors.

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. 

Metodo DS creates innovative socks, socks with toes, in hemp, and also reflexology models that, when worn in shoes, stimulate the reflexology points simply by walking.Metodo DS owns the patent for the machine used to produce them.

Vshop is a SaaS platform that enables companies to easily, quickly, and intuitively set up e-commerce outlets based on 3D environments.

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

Travelware is an innovative startup dedicated to the development, production, and marketing of innovative hi-tech services that facilitate digitalization and innovation in the tourist sector. Through the conception and development of a technological platform, Travelware aims to promote sustainable tourism and showcase the historical and environmental patrimony of tourist destinations.

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.

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.

Stars & Cows è una start up innovativa nata nel 2015 con l'obiettivo di fornire alle aziende, ai giovani ed al territorio servizi in ambito Risorse Umane e Consulenza professionale, avvalendosi anche di una rete di ex Senior Manager.

Design 24's main product is the Italian-design brand, 24Bottles, which combines aesthetics with sustainability and is aimed at people who are urban, dynamic and fashionable.Made of stainless steel, the bottles are cool, lightweight and eco-friendly. They are available in half-litre and litre sizes. They are made from 18/8 stainless steel, an enormously hygienic and durable material that is easy to clean and resistant to heat.

MIX is a digital platform created for communication and promoting cultural heritage using new digital technologies.

Taldeg is an acceleration program on an e-learning platform for training artists and creative individuals, teaching them business and digital techniques. Once our subscribers are trained they can access the best market opportunities by getting into contact with exhibition spaces and companies interested in their artistic services.

CrossHyde is an innovative integrated digital system capable of video communication with a profiled public using any glass and/or Plexiglas surface without modifying its original nature (transparency). Applied to windows or any other transparent surface, it is capable, when triggered and for a specific time, of transforming a window into a screen for communicating messages defined on the basis of the general characteristics of the audience present, as detected using sensors (e.g. man/woman, age range, etc.).