Startups

LAIF arose as an idea of an engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist who shared many years of experience in data analysis, artificial intelligence, and software development.We are experts in end-to-end development of AI solutions for small to medium-sized Italian companies that are open to innovation and want to better exploit their data with modern, sustainable digital solutions.

Astreo is an innovative startup dealing with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).According to the latest data, manufacturing plants in Italy mostly run machinery of around 20 years in age.This represents a major brake on business competitiveness.

Ecoinnovazione is a spin-off from ENEA, accredited as an industrial research laboratory in the Emilia-Romagna High-Tech network. We offer companies and public authorities customized solutions for the assessment and promotion of sustainability in the environmental, economic, and social dimensions. We develop products while also addressing organizations and local territory.

Let's Donation is the first crowdfunding portal where you can support a charity project with a simple and free click.It is an innovative social network based upon solidarity: a portal where the worlds of Profit and Non-Profit can meet and work together to carry out charitable acts. The platform was created as a meeting and interchange point, where users can also create content, ideas, opinions and initiatives.The goal is to support and fund charitable projects in any organisation, institution and social, charitable or public association.

Red Points Italy s.r.l. is the Italian offshoot of the Spanish startup of the same name that was established in Barcelona in 2011. It is the creator of an innovative software platform that is able to quickly remove web content that violates:a) copyright and intellectual property: removal of photos, video, literary works, musical works, phone software and apps, video games

Cubbit is Europe's first geo-distributed cloud storage provider. Its technology ensures the security and sovereignty of customer data while cutting costs, cyber risks, and carbon emissions compared to the traditional cloud. Cubbit, a Gaia-X partner, protects 80M+ user files worldwide. Its S3-compatible object storage serves 100+ companies (from enterprises with a turnover of more than €1 billion to SMEs) that have joined the dedicated Next Generation Cloud Pioneers network.

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.

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.

The Nonno Click mission is to create a social platform to encourage computer literacy in users over 65 and grant them access to online social and health services.

RoboSECT punta ad automatizzare il controllo qualità di quadri elettrici attraverso un test autonomo delle connessioni.

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.

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.

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.

Kopjra is the brainchild of a group of computer science and law students looking to find entrepreneurial synergy in their respective business areas.The company's core business is currently internet copyright protection, with a view to acquiring the technologies and expertise to enable expansion into trademark, patent and privacy protection.Kopjra is one of the TIM #WCAP Bologna 2014 startup batch, one of the EIT ICT Labs coached companies and has received initial funding from BAN Custodi di Successo.

StudiaBo was born as a spin-off from Servabit, within a networked business process.StudiaBo’s mission is to transform data into knowledge by providing users with analysis instruments that use data from public sources (open data), thereby limiting the cost of information for users to just the stages of analysis and transformation of the baseline data.

The patented technology application called TRAILS transforms every street light into an IoT device that is intelligent and interconnected, thanks to the gathering of sound information combined with the use of artificial intelligence.The TRAILS dispersed application helps reduce wastage of light and energy in street lighting by over 40%, supplying only the necessary quantity of light where and when needed.

Komete is an innovative company that is transforming the high added value manufacturing sector applying IoT and AI solutions dedicated to manual workstations, critical but frequently neglected areas in production processes. In this setting, the absence of digital instruments leads to inefficiency, delays, and planning problems, with a loss of productivity that can exceed 20%.

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.

G-Com s.r.l.s. is an innovative company in interactive and cross-media content production for the entertainment and advertising sectors.The working group, which comes from advertising and from traditional television, combines the latest technology with interactive storytelling, whether built around a sponsor or pure entertainment. The aim is to involve the public, from spectator-consumers to protagonists in the choices and in the story.