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! 

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.

Aflabox srl is an innovative start-up that is revolutionizing food safety with a portable UV imaging device called Aflabox. This instrument provides rapid and precise detection of aflatoxins in maize, helping farmers and food processing companies to guarantee the quality of their products.Product features

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.

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:

Basca design produce and market machines for cleaning and reconditioning mixing tanks and industrial containers (IBCs, barrels, drums, etc.). The main advantages of Basca's machines are:

The very best of Food&Beverage: this is what Sluurpy is. Since 2018, our goal has been to drastically reduce the distances between consumers, restaurants and brands. To date, we  put 1.5 million registered users in contact with brands, producers and restaurants: from gastronomic stars to takeaways, from local producers to large chains throughout Italy. 

Wanna Order è come Shopify ma per i ristoranti.

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.

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.

Hipert SRL is a spin-off from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. It was initiated in 2020 by Prof. Marko Bertogna and emerged from the HiPeRT laboratory, where research groups were seeking to exploit the performance/power of parallel processing platforms in a predictable manner, and in application contexts in which temporal constraints are critical.

AgroMateriae was established after three years of research in the laboratories of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where excellent experimental results led to submission of a patent application for WPL (2019). It was accredited as an innovative startup by the University of Modena, with the objective of ramping up the technology to an industrial scale.

Borgo Etico is not just a simple shop on tap. It is also raising awareness of informed purchasing, primarily through the elimination of unnecessary packaging, thus promoting the reuse and recycling of materials. This represents an opportunity to promote waste reduction at the source, by buying only the required amount of unpackaged products. People will be educated in the reuse of packaging (bags, jars, plastic containers, etc.), whilst simultaneously saving money and reducing environmental impacts.

Genera is a deep tech company that combines smart engineering, experience with ISOBUS, and user centred design to create intuitive instruments that simplify operations and improve efficiency.

Evolvee is an automatic system (software + hardware) capable of recognizing and discriminating fruit stalks and then administering wax, making use of vision, automation, and AI systems.  

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.