Startups

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.

A limited company established in December 2011, Hivejobs introduces an innovative recruiting system, using an online platform and the evaluation of specialised professionals working in the same field as the candidates. This is a new method of crowd-recruiting, offering the market a faster, more qualified, more specialised and more economical research and selection model.

A limited company established in January 2011, Micromark designs and develops custom software. Its flagship project, DuePalleggi.it, is software for the management of reservations of sporting facilities and events.

A cooperative society established in October 2011, Well_B_Lab* is a spin-off of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, which offers a range of activities and tools for the analysis and evaluation of public policy and organisation, with the aim of making personal well-being a primary goal of public choices and corporate organisational policies.

Products and services offered

MilkyWay manufactures quality tools for extreme sports, transferring to this product area all the engineering skills of the Modenese mechanical sector.

Customers can purchase online and communicate with one another thanks to the company's social mapping software. In this way, community discussion provides useful ideas about the creation of new products. MilkyWay facilitates the potential aggregation of users with a totally new community experience, based on online gatherings of sports enthusiasts.

Established in August 2011 by Pietro Ferraris, Simone Biagiotti and Michele Orsi, map2app is a web platform that enables anyone to create a mobile travel app, or a local guide in the form of a native app for iPhone and Android, and distribute it - getting paid in the process - through leading application stores (Apple Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore).

Creating an app using map2app is as simple as creating a blog. All you need to do is enter the content, choose the look of the app (template or individual items) and publish it.

adoroletuefoto.it is the first Realtime Photo Contest website, a place for photographers to test their skills, share ideas and techniques, as well as teaching and learning from one another. It is a personal photography-gym, an innovative way to learn by playing.

adoroletuefoto.it looks to bring together photography enthusiasts - novices, amateurs and professionals - creating an environment of sharing and comparing where users can improve their skills and photographic techniques over time. 

Established as a limited company in June 2010, Techno GF is engaged in the study, development and application of energy-saving software. Working on the premise that solar radiation behaves in a similar manner to the propagation of radio waves, this startup uses a sophisticated ray tracing program for the prediction of radio coverage in an urban environment, developing it to calculate solar intensity (in collaboration with the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems at the University of Bologna).

People 3.0 is a Cooperative Society of freelancers and small businesses formed in December 2010 that supports companies involved with organisational innovation, using social matrix technologies to introduce participatory and collaborative dynamics in relationships within companies as well as with customers and suppliers.

Harrier is an Industrial Design company that offers design and consultation services for lines of furniture and household accessories.

Research of materials and technological innovation are at the heart of Harrier's products. From design to pre-series production, Harrier guarantees the development and performance of the product, as well as support with the marketing.