Startups

An app that allows art enthusiasts to carry the world's leading museums in their pockets and to experience them in a completely new way.

WheelHub Connect is an innovative platform founded by women with the aim of revolutionizing the automotive sector, making it more inclusive, efficient, and accessible. Our mission is to match up various talents with the best opportunities in the automotive world, at the same time helping companies to build diversified high potential teams.Products and servicesWheelHub Connect offers a range of services designed to satisfy the needs of both candidates and companies.

Encryption, computer security, algorithms, telecommunications, cloud computing: these are the areas in which CryptoLab, a cryptographic research laboratory founded by Massimo Bertaccini, Alessandro Passerini and Tiziana Landi, operates. Bertaccini was among the winners of the second annual Innovami IPR Prize, which enabled him to apply for the patent on the following online encryption and data security software: the MB09 and MB11. These aim to reduce the use of passwords required for online transactions, resulting in increased levels of identity assurance.

Billoo is a benefit company startup that has developed an innovative platform, accessible by app and web-app, to help home and company users monitor and manage electric and gas bills.The application uses algorithms to check the accuracy of the invoiced amounts, comparing the applied tariffs with the best prices on the market, with indication of errors or anomalies.

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.

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.

A startup that develops software, in particular mobile apps. The first on-site project is a flexible and technologically advanced private bike sharing service: bicycles can be booked through the app and a smart padlock that as well as unlocking the bike, also allows for its geolocation.

Cubbit is Europe's first geo-distributed cloud storage provider. Its technology ensures the security and sovereignty of customer data while cutting costs, cyber risks, and carbon emissions compared to the traditional cloud. Cubbit, a Gaia-X partner, protects 80M+ user files worldwide. Its S3-compatible object storage serves 100+ companies (from enterprises with a turnover of more than €1 billion to SMEs) that have joined the dedicated Next Generation Cloud Pioneers network.

Nika operates in the 3D printing sector. The company is distinguished by supplying high resolution colour printing and post-production services including vapour smoothing, prototyping, and creation of nylon technopolymer components.

An innovative start-up that aims to develop, produce and sell intelligent sensors (Smart Sensors) that can improve the performance of machines and systems with which we work and interact on a daily basis.

Eco-Polis C&S is a University of Ferrara startup, offering creative and innovative services for cities, regions and enterprises, promoting local development projects, rural and urban, while respecting the principles of social equity and environmental and economic sustainability, with the use of smart technologies and methodologies.Eco-Polis C&S offers products and services to government and/or to private or voluntary organisations operating within government and land management.

Sentric is developing a software solution that helps online sellers to simplify the product insertion process.With our platform, sellers can easily access complete product information from our database, including photographs and descriptions. This eliminates the need for manual data insertion and ensures accurate, up-to-date product data.

This new company is involved in the design, production, and marketing of furnishing and fashion accessories. They develop innovations in applied physics using polymethylmethacrylate in the lighting accessories sector. The aim is to develop optical properties for optimizing lighting capacity within the limits of the standards in force.The unique design products conceived by NICOLAZZARO implement innovations in applied physics capable of achieving new breakthroughs, with patents pending, for the protection of human health.

Fluid-A is an innovative startup that specialises in the design of fluid machines, energy conversion and exchange systems and data acquisition systems.

Piano Debiti aims to help consumers and small businesses with excessive debt problems to escape the debt spiral by renegotiating sustainable payment plans.

Hooro, through its proprietary device and integrated system, collects data on consumer behaviour in the physical stores and before their check-out. A IoT system sends the purchase data to the server, which uses an automatic learning algorithm to build customer journey models and predict customer buying behaviours. Unlike other solutions on the market (Computer Vision, RFiD tags, NFC), Hooro IoT device has no impact on product packaging, and a very minimal impact on the store structure, and it generates data for both retailers and consumers.