Startups

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.

An Italian company founded by SoftRail in 2011, Binary System s.r.l. is a leader and the benchmark for software in the rail industry.

The software is used by railway companies for the digital management of staff shifts, training activities and the distribution of drivers' security documents.

With these tools, railway companies are now able to manage their crews using the latest technology, through mobile and web interfaces.

Pomodoro develops innovative web and mobile solutions aimed primarily at the Pharmaceutical and Green-Economy sectors.

For the Green sector it has developed a new social network - WeCity - to spread the culture of sustainable mobility. The positive message is disseminated and promoted through the playing of a game in which users are rewarded depending on how often they use environmentally sustainable means of transport.

It is also developing a new bike-sharing project whereby users manage the sharing of bicycles from within a dedicated community.

REA s.r.l. - Reliable Energy Advisors' operations in the renewable energy sector can be divided into three important areas:

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.

Let's Donation is the first crowdfunding portal where you can support a charity project with a simple and free click.

It is an innovative social network based upon solidarity: a portal where the worlds of Profit and Non-Profit can meet and work together to carry out charitable acts. The platform was created as a meeting and interchange point, where users can also create content, ideas, opinions and initiatives.

The goal is to support and fund charitable projects in any organisation, institution and social, charitable or public association.

3DPrototipi supports companies in the delicate phase of new product development and design.

3DPrototipi offers design and rapid prototyping in different materials (ABS, nylon, rubber and resin of various colours with ultra-thin 16-micron layers). It also offers mould making and production of individual parts using plastic or rubber injection moulding.

StudiaBo was born as a spin-off from Servabit, within a networked business process.

StudiaBo’s mission is to transform data into knowledge by providing users with analysis instruments that use data from public sources (open data), thereby limiting the cost of information for users to just the stages of analysis and transformation of the baseline data.

Melpyou is a voluntary work social network that brings together real people and real situations, not as providers and consumers of a service but as active protagonists of a culture of solidarity. Melpyou allows anyone to take part, even occasionally, in volunteering, giving non-profit organisations the opportunity to list in detail their requests for help (date, time, place and activities to be performed). Using this information, volunteer work can be arranged directly online.

Aderit s.r.l., founded in Bologna in September 2011, develops IT services and solutions in cloud computing for business. Thanks to their technological expertise and an optimised infrastructure, guaranteed by its own network of providers, the startup is able to offer services that are accessible from anywhere, with high standards of security and reliability.

Aderit also specialises in developing custom web applications, according to individual clients' requirements, that can also be used on smartphones and tablets, as well as most popular browsers.