Startups

PashionVictim is a C2C social commerce platform, part of a limited company established in January 2012. Funded by crowdsourcing, the platform allows users from around the world to inspire one another, and share and sell items selected from affiliated fashion boutiques, earning money from sales.

PashionVictim intends to seize upon the extraordinary growth of fashion-related social networks to make up for the lack of electronic commerce indulged in by independent shops (only 5% according to a survey of over 400 Reggio Emilia startups).

IXoost is a limited company founded in Modena in July 2012 that designs, assembles and constructs sound systems using components from the world of motorsport, such as F1 exhaust manifolds and other body parts. All pieces are machined and have full Apple support. IXoost has also created an app that allows users to customise the use of the dock. 

46Sports is the first digital and interactive sports almanac, dedicated to amateurs and youth. Created by a group of enthusiasts, the system allows the profiling of athletes and the analysis of their performance. It is also a very powerful and effective search tool for talent scouts.

Akkutrack is a startup that produces and markets innovative optoelectronic tools for applications in the concentrated photovoltaic market, known as CPV.

In the field of renewable energies, concentrated photovoltaics is one of the fastest-growing areas. Akkutrack s.r.l. in particular proposes innovative pointing sensors that can improve the performance of a solar concentration system, monitoring and correcting pointing errors, simultaneously measuring direct solar radiation from the sun and increasing the efficiency of the system in terms of energy production.

AlmaPlasma is a company that aims to design, manufacture and market advanced technological solutions in the field of atmospheric pressure thermal and non-thermal plasmas, developed by the Industrial Applications of Plasma (IAP) group at the University of Bologna.

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.