Startups

EmmeBo is a company offering family friendly products and services. Based on the idea of two female businesswomen from Bologna, the company finished among the top 10 finalists in the StartCup Emilia Romagna in 2018, and was awarded the Manageritalia Emilia Romagna prize for a product dedicated to families.

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.

VIBRE is a startup that was founded in Cesena and operates in the sector of brain-computer interfaces.The startup, founded by a team of bio-engineers, software engineers and clinicians, aims to make brain-computer interfaces available for mass consumption, giving companies in the sector the opportunity of developing products and applications that are fully or partly controlled by the brain.

Cyclando is a platform comprising an e-commerce website and a navigation app that collects organized trips and verified GPS cycling route tracks. The aim is to create a platform where tour operators, hire outlets, and guides who want to offer guided tours can contact customers, initially all over Italy, but when fully implemented also all over Europe.Cyclando therefore present themselves as a tour operator with the aim of becoming the go-to digital platform for the European cycle touring market.

Walk+ is a platform that hosts digital guides for Italian walks.We apply NFC technology combined with a state-of-art application to improve the safety of hikers and promote access to local culture. Our app provides users with all the information they need for a safe excursion, including emergency numbers, location of water sources, where to eat and sleep, route, distance, and height difference.

MarshYellow supports other startups in their growth process through consultancy, training, networking, and mentoring.It offers two main programmes: CProgram is a hybrid incubator that combines an on-demand video course, dedicated mentoring, and weekly networking activities.

Letzfair is a start-up company founded to provide innovative digital services to international trade shows and exhibitions, in any industry.Our mission is to become the technology partner of every event organizer that aims to improve both visitors and exhibitors satisfaction before, during and after their event. Exploiting all the innovative, cutting-edge features of our Mobile app and web platform, we create the Digital Dimension of trade shows and exhibitions, enhancing and enriching the physical exhibition space.

Efesti is a forge in which particular materials are curated. Ideas, images, stories, values and people: elements that all companies and all realities we support combine in different ways.Our job is to take these materials and create something unique with them, something that can perfectly adapt to our clients' requests, something that doesn't only satisfy immediate needs but can also offer a long-term benefit, a real and tangible value for all.

Yoomee Srl is an innovative start-up born in 2019 from the network experience of three Emilia Romagna based companies which operate within the scope of ICT since more than twenty years.Yoomee Srl designs and actualizes customized solutions, which employ the Augmented Reality technology and apply it to various environments (industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, knowledge transfer, education, art and tourism) maintaining, as a central feature, the added value of the Augmented Reality which allows an easier access to contents and a higher involvement.

Cue Press is the first entirely digital publishing house dedicated to the performing arts.Channeling the best of the production work in the field and redesigning the idea of "niche" in a global market, Cue Press bases its competitive advantage on the value of the contents it offers and the uniqueness of the technological infostructure.

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.

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.

WHATaECO is an innovative female startup and the first low impact B2C e-commerce that promotes ethical and sustainable brands throughout the European Union. The site is powered 100% with clean energy, the logistics is based on drop shipping without a warehouse, with transport halved and compensated, and rigorously plastic-free packaging. The site currently markets a range of over 3000 ethical and sustainable products from more than 170 Italian and foreign brands.

SimpleNetworks work in Digital Innovation, which means mixing technical and creative skills.We believe that the most innovative results are achieved when the left and right hemisphere, strings of code and storyrelling, engineering and creativity, work together. Developing complex projects inevitably mean mixing different skills, but most of all bringing together technical and creative skills. Our team has been structured to cover all competences that a web project needs.TECHNOLOGY

 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.

ENDU is a kind of Trip Advisor for events, a service and sharing hub for fans, a marketplace for operators and a marketing tool for those operating in this and other sectors.

Yougo is a company founded in 2020 by professionals working in the world of events and entertainment, with head office in Bologna. The company was established with the aim of sustaining innovation in the organization and participation in events using modern technology and in line with national and European policies for digital transition towards environmental and economic sustainability.

YOUTOOL // design out of the box was founded virtually on 19 September 2011 with a sustained passion for design and as a valuable instrument that can transform ideas into functional timeless products.YOUTOOL// design out of the box comprises a network of communication professionals who offer companies innovative projects and services for ideation, communication, and sales.