Startups

Nautilus – Navigation in Space is an innovative startup that aspires towards revolutionizing the space exploration market. By supplying products and services for small satellites (SmallSats) we intend to establish an infrastructural ecosystem that enables small satellites to become the most sustainable solution for achieving interplanetary missions.Our core business is supplying a modular service for interplanetary navigation (Flight Dynamics) of small satellites.

Weeshop is an app that guides consumers for grocery shopping, helping them to analyse what they eat and find healthier and more sustainable alternatives, in an independent, made-to-measure approach. More than 8 out of 10 consumers would like to make healthier and more sustainable choices, but almost 7 out of 10 exhibit a need for guidance in this process (Deloitte study, 2021).We offer the simplest most complete instrument on the market to help them make better choices.

iThalia is an innovative start-up of social media inspiration that has developed a revolutionary patent that creates secure local networks independent of Internet.

Caucaso’s cultural project was born out of a unique convergence between scientific tension and artistic production, focused on cinema and documentary.Created as an informal collective in the early 2000s, Caucaso evolved into an international production company based in Bologna, Italy. During the following years, the Caucaso society established a network of co-productions within both the Italian and international production landscapes.

Thipibo arranges medium and long term rent agreements for students and off-site workers.Our focus is on the individuals involved, providing a profile of users with relevant information, interests, habits, and lifestyle details to ensure identification of ideal cohabitants and harmonious communal living. We support the search process with algorithms to match up profiles that most resemble each other.

Youmarell is a new streaming platform that brings building sites within the reach of everyone. Inspired by the Bologna dialect expression "umarell" (elderly men who pass their time watching building sites with great enthusiasm and curiosity), we capture this cultural phenomenon and amplify it for a wider public.

Relaia aspire to become a yardstick for end-to-end collective intelligence solutions. We are an innovative startup and benefit company with the participation of the University of Bologna, constructing digital instruments for a future in which the social and relational dimension is included into systems of automation, simulation, and forecasting for planning and strategies in local areas.

Mavigex is a Software House specializing in innovative software solutions, with nearly 20 years of experience in software development. Since 2022, it has been part of SocialCities s.r.l., a web agency and software house based in Imola, becoming the Group’s reference point for web development, mobile apps, and IoT, while integrating the SocialCities development team.

For 15 years Optit has been offering IT solutions based on advanced mathematics, data science, analytics, and optimization in support of company innovation.We improve efficiency and effectiveness for medium and large sized companies in diverse sectors (energy, refuse, logistics, retail sales) through innovative support systems for decision making.

SocialCities was founded in 2014, with an initial team of 5 developers and digital strategists, to create the LocalJob project. Launched as an innovative Startup, it won numerous awards, including TimWcap, Amazon Web Services and Startup Chile.

VAIMEE is an innovative startup and spinoff from the University of Bologna established in 2020. Its technology enables development of modular data-driven applications in an extremely safe and scalable environment.Based on Open Source technologies, VAIMEE's horizontal Milkydataway solution is very flexible and can be implemented in any context, especially in domains characterized by heterogeneous, unstructured, and dynamic data.

A startup that develops hi-tech content solutions for advanced data analysis and multimedia publishing production. The activity is focused on the automated elaboration of video content and statistics using artificial intelligence and data analytics techniques, with the aim of generating reports and audiovisual content destined for digital transmission (ground, streaming, satellite, social media).

Neptune s.r.l. is an innovative startup, born out of the experience of its founders in industrial projects developed at the telecommunications laboratories of the University of Bologna.

OLIO aims to simplify and automate all the processes involved in online sales of aftermarket vehicle spares, providing our partners with a unique and specialized solution for integrating their warehouse stocks with the major European marketplaces and e-commerce.

ITCares is an innovative startup with the great dream of making the world accessible. Tangible usefulness and strong social impact are the essential characteristics of all our projects.

Morelli Tech S.r.l.s. is an innovative startup based in Rimini and founded by Alessio Morelli, Giacomo Caroli, and Luca Battilana. Tech's business activity is focused on the creation of new hardware/software technologies for applications in the vehicle sector and elsewhere, based on augmented reality and centred on the use of AR holographic head-up displays (HUD).