Startups

We design and construct soil-less cultivation plants through customized consultation with farms, private individuals, public authorities, and schools. We aim to foster the emergence of hyperlocal production, informed resilient communities, establishing a network of virtuous interdisciplinary relations.All over Italy we experiment, inform, and train, engaging with communities online and offline to promote and spread this culture.

The Food Hub SRL Benefit Company is an innovative startup that supports the food and agriculture ecosystem with information, training, and consultancy services for stakeholders in the sector. The mission is to participate in growth and innovation in our sector through constant provision of quality services. The aim is to become a yardstick in Italy for innovation in the food and agriculture sector.

ALGAE spa was founded in 2018 as an innovative start-up operating in the micro-algae and cyanobacteria (especially Spirulina) market. The company's operating base is on the Soliera plain, where a team of researchers have developed their own "tank-based photo bio-reactor (PBR)" technology, with micro-algae ecosystems recreated in each individual unit.

Cammeo DiVino is an innovative start-up to help relaunch Italian companies. This makes digital culture sustainable for the food and catering industry through targeted courses, also under an annual subscription affordable for any agricultural producer, along with free made-to-measure business instruments.

The 7G Company was founded with the aim of developing innovative technology for roasting coffee and other granular materials, creating machines designed, produced, and marketed in Italy and abroad.

Welly is an innovative startup with the objective of reinventing the food delivery world in the spirit of sustainability. With our experience analysing the carbon footprint of foodstuffs, we are able to offer restaurants simple digital solutions for calculating the environmental impact of their menu and enable compensations through the most important European foundations.

WLHemp is developing an industrial production cycle for hemp, with an integrated approach that starts with cultivation, all the way to the processing and marketing of semifinished goods.

Vandelli is developing a sustainable food distribution model based on the promotion of the Mediterranean diet and utilization of organic and biodynamic products originating from fair trade production chains.The company provides a digital marketplace to allow small producers to directly access the final market, promoting a short transparent supply chain.

Our aim is to reduce inefficiency in wine marketing through promotion of a zero back-office platform for operators in the sector.Our business model is B2B and we provide a technological platform designed for local areas, agents, and wine cellars.We are steering towards a faster, better connected, scalable B2B, shifting the focus towards functional and technological development.

Tulips is a website where you can order your shopping online and have it waiting for you in store or have it delivered to your home.

OpenTEA is a start-up company providing customised services for the development of e-learning courses within its own web platform, www.opentea.eu. 

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.

ITALYLUNCH is the first Italian cooking fast-food outlet in Europe based on the Food & Travel formula. The objective is to provide customers with traditional Italian meals with marked regional characteristics at a low enough cost to be affordable even for those with limited funds.

AgriLab are active in soil-less cultivation and combine advanced technologies like aquaponics and electroculture to produce high quality organic basil without pesticides and consuming significantly less water. 

AgroMateriae was established after three years of research in the laboratories of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where excellent experimental results led to submission of a patent application for WPL (2019). It was accredited as an innovative startup by the University of Modena, with the objective of ramping up the technology to an industrial scale.

iFarming develops field monitoring systems based on innovative technologies. Relying on years of applied research, it introduces IoT potential in agricultural decision-making and enhances sustainable, as well as affordable and remunerative precision farming.

aMarcello srl is an innovative startup established in 2023 with the aim of revolutionising the fast food sector, combining the fried fish tradition of the Romagnola Riviera with technological innovation applied to its preparation, with the aim of satisfying the growing demand for cheap, high quality, easily accessible food.