Health and Well-being Industries

SCENT S.r.l (SemiConductor-based Electronic Network for Tumors) is a company whose mission is to design, test, manufacture and market screening tools for detection of tumor formations and pathologies through the analysis of chemical variations in the composition of the gases produced by human organism.

Cellply is a biotechnology company that develops scientific tools automating cell-based functional assays whose aim is to deeply characterize the mode of action of both approved and novel anti-cancer drugs, being able to evaluate the heterogeneity in function of both immune and tumor cells with a single-cell resolution.

The idea for this business arose from the need for a safe and simple way to wash disabled and bedridden people, and the identification of a highly innovative solution to permanently eradicate the problem.

Angiodroid is a startup that was founded in July 2013 by SparkBio and funded by the venture capital fund Zernike Meta Ventures and Emilia Romagna's Ingenium Fund.

Angiodroid designs, manufactures and sells automatic injectors for the injection of carbon dioxide as a contrast material in angiography.

The technology is patented in Italy and abroad to safeguard the uniqueness of the solutions offered to the market (injectors and materials).

Celldynamics is pioneering a new benchmark in in vitro testing for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Our solutions, tailored for 3D cell models, are reshaping decision-making processes by delivering more reliable outcomes.

We offer suite of innovative laboratory tools that synergize fluidics, optics, and sophisticated image-based software analysis. Our solutions are entirely conceived, developed, produced, and marketed by us and follow a rigorous process of evaluation and experimental verification.​

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:

OPHERA is an Italian company founded by a group of researchers with international experience in R&D within the Life Science field.

The company is specialised in R&D of products and innovative projects that have a base of botanicals and non conventional natural extracts for solutions that are destined to the biomedical, nutritional and cosmetic markets.

OPHERA can create and develop high quality cosmetic products that are unique due to the precious, original and most of all effective raw materials.

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.