Startups

RetailTune is a SaaS platform for drive-to-store campaigns and local digital marketing. This easy–to-use technology helps retailers, wholesalers, and franchisees to manage their store data on digital touch-points, while also helping consumers to be in the right place at the right time according to the products and services they are looking for.

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.

The company originates from the Interdepartmental Research Centre Biopharmanet-Tec at the University of Parma, at the hub of Emilia Romagna's high tech network, and produces innovative medicines in powder form for administration by inhalation of antibiotics and chemotherapy.Plumestars was selected for inclusion in the SeedLab acceleration program 2013, came second at Innovaday 2013, and got down to the final five of 620 startups at the Gaetano Marzotto Prize in 2013, where it won the Unicredit Talent of Ideas award.

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.

eDriveLAB is a spin-off of the University of Parma that innovates within the vehicular mobility sector.

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.

JEM Tech was born out of experience in operating theatres during doctorate teaching in Verona hospital. A lack of assessment of cardiac kinetics was observed during surgical operations due to limitations in current technology.JEM Tech therefore developed and built the first videocardiograph (VCG), a non-invasive medical device based on artificial intelligence (A.I.) capable of assessing the mechanical operation of the heart in real-time using only a video camera.

EO GEA is the licensee of two patents (dehumidification 2007 and stabilization 2011) and title holders of a patent from 2025 (date of concession of submission for a request presented in 2023).Within the sphere of geotechnics and building, EO GEA aims to design solutions that counter the problems of ground heave and subsidence, preventing future problems.

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

MaCh3D is an innovative Material Testing (MT) platform designed for those who transform raw materials into finished products (for example, plastics, and additive manufacturing).MaCh3D is made up of:

Film4Sun Soc. coop è uno spin-off del CNR di Parma costituito alla fine del 2012 con l'obbiettivo di sviluppare prodotti fotovoltaici innovativi che possono essere usati per combinare in modo intelligente il consumo e la produzione di energia elettrica negli edifici. 

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.

Caffeina is an Italian Creative Company that transforms brands in Experience Brands, thanks to the creation of impactful experiences that input new energy in people and brands.It has a team of over 130 professionals, who work on integrated communications campaigns and digital innovation projects in multidisciplinary teams, that give structure to Strategy, Design, Communication and Technology.

Spin-off dell'Università di Parma, Bugseng e il suo team hanno tradotto in impresa una ricerca di oltre quindici anni su tecniche di analisi del software basate su una teoria matematica dell'approssimazione che consente di progettare e dimostrare la correttezza di complessi verificatori automatici di programmi, altrimenti impensabili.La verifica del software è un'esigenza sempre più avvertita, data la presenza sempre più pervasiva del software in dispositivi critici (ad esempio, in ambito automobilistico, avionico, elettromedicale). Pur riferendosi al mercato internazionale, Bugseng è una novità assoluta per l'Italia e assicura un livello di assistenza altamente qualificata, che i concorrenti (tutti esteri) non forniscono.

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.

Seabreath srl is developing a new multi-chamber oscillating water column system to generate energy from sea waves.The project is on the verge of entering phase TRL7 with experimentation at sea and a search for partners.

TomaPaint is an innovative startup with the objective of marketing a bio-resin extracted from agro-industry waste tomato (mostly skins), which forms the main component of bio-paints or bio-coatings, for use in the food packaging sector. The founders of TomaPaint derive from different training backgrounds:

Redess Srl is the first Italian and European certified organic supply chain for SUMAC.The potential markets for our innovative sumac based products include: food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and industrial applications (biocides and insecticides).Redess have the benefit of collaborating with the universities of Parma, Milan, Camerino, and Palermo.