Startups

 Alma Virtual Lab was founded to bring the benefits of the new immersive technologies into sectors where development of knowledge and skills is central (education, instruction, professional training), and where artistic and technical culture (museums, theatres, events) can be divulgated in an innovative way.

Horeca Job is an innovative platform that aims to revolutionize the paradigm for finding and selecting personnel for the Ho.Re.Ca (hotel, restaurant, and catering) sector, which is among the most badly affected sectors by the Covid pandemic.Traditional methods based on advertisements and submitting CVs are no longer adequate to rapidly return to full staffing levels and satisfy the new needs of candidates and companies.

This new company is involved in the design, production, and marketing of furnishing and fashion accessories. They develop innovations in applied physics using polymethylmethacrylate in the lighting accessories sector. The aim is to develop optical properties for optimizing lighting capacity within the limits of the standards in force.The unique design products conceived by NICOLAZZARO implement innovations in applied physics capable of achieving new breakthroughs, with patents pending, for the protection of human health.

Zoppel Universe operates in the areas of blockchain gaming, digital comics, and Web3.The company is developing an integrated narrative universe, combining graphic novels and video games with a blockchain platform that enables digital property using NFT and a play-to-earn mechanism.

MemorAIz is a startup active in the field of artificial intelligence, developing modular customizable solutions to simplify the processes of educational, cultural, publishing, and social organizations.

Isual® is an innovative digital platform with the aim of raising brand profile through the reuse of digital content distributed directly through the channels of your own network of partners, sales outlets, agents, collaborators.The relational network of a brand/organization has the potential to enormously amplify its reputation, visibility, and consequently sales.

Studio Croma Animation is an animation studio specialized in the production of cinematic works and audio-visual content for advertising and Internet. They apply the stop-motion technique, using sequences of photographs to create movement and lend personality to objects and inanimate puppets. The creative process that distinguishes their products is characterized by a perfect mix of hand-crafted construction techniques, technology, and digital processing.

Djinne aims to revolutionize cultural tourism through a multisided freemium platform that provides customized digital tourist guides. In a collaborative approach we enable users to share stories and information. This enables travellers to discover the most authentic locations, the most intense flavours, and the most unusual stories.

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.

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.

Founded in January 2014, Humarker s.r.l. is an innovative start-up based in Parma. Humarker works to promote Italian culture and heritage through real and virtual structures, and through business models that embrace innovation and experimentation with new technologies. The idea is to enter the market of augmented reality (AR) by developing application frameworks with which to develop and market apps for the Cultural Heritage sector. 

We operate in the Local Search field, which means putting local businesses into contact with each other using map based instruments like Google My Business, Facebook Local, and similar.We target chains with more than 20 sales outlets or activities that need extreme automation.

Luna is aimed at anyone who has an innovative idea and wants to achieve it together with a young and dynamic team. We can create projects and offer solutions with state-of-the-art technology for both SMEs and large companies.

This startup is a media agency with the objective of promoting cultural organizations and new professions in the digital sectors among young people. This is achieved through a series of communication media and instruments (podcasts, social media content, live events) with an innovative composition and tone suited to our reference public, mainly composed of young people under 35.

The future of sport is already here: create your Digital Sports Identity (DSI) with SportId™. Use your DSI to develop your technical skills accessing qualified instructors from every sporting discipline in line with sports federation parameters, while enjoy simplified and customized access to all the services provided by the first Digital Sports Ecosystem (DSE) in the world.

CrossHyde is an innovative integrated digital system capable of video communication with a profiled public using any glass and/or Plexiglas surface without modifying its original nature (transparency). Applied to windows or any other transparent surface, it is capable, when triggered and for a specific time, of transforming a window into a screen for communicating messages defined on the basis of the general characteristics of the audience present, as detected using sensors (e.g. man/woman, age range, etc.).

The corporate purpose is to supply services in the sphere of archaeology and cultural heritage.Archeosmart offers innovative methods and technologies in the academic world for provision of services that include:

SMACE, Smart Work in a Smart Place was founded in Ferrara in December 2020 based on an idea of Marta Romero and Andrea Droghetti to transform remote working into a work benefit.SMACE is a B2B solution for the management of work-spaces for company teams. By aggregating third party premises as alternatives to the office or home, together with a series of services suited to the work carried out by the groups, SMACE represents an ideal solution for externalizing management of the hybrid office.

Shifton is an advanced design studio for social innovation with a clear vision of contemporaneity. In an increasingly fluid and dynamic world, we believe in an approach to design capable of enabling favorable conditions for change, taking care of processes and outlining new scenarios.