Startups

eSteps acts to counter increasing motor disability in the lower limbs, providing monitoring solutions before, during, and after hospitalization. It applies biomechanical and telerehabilitation protocols along with sports telemonitoring. These combine with hi-tech customized, sustainable solutions that prioritize patients and sportsmen.

In vitro cell cultivation is a widely applied technology worldwide in the fields of pharmacology, cosmetics, diagnostics, and research, normally using foetal bovine serum (FBS) as a nutrition source. However, its use is subject to the limitations of high and constantly rising costs, and some ethical issues since the production process is mainly based outside of the European continent.

Fama Labs is a health tech startup specialized in the development of hi-tech B2B products for companies, scientific enterprises, health professionals and their patients.

CMNEXT is a female enterprise founded in 2024 based on a passion for new technologies that offer the possibility to achieve well-being and manage pain in original and innovative ways.Our interdisciplinary team, comprising psychologists, doctors, computer engineers, lawyers, training and learning experts, has been collaborating for years in the creation of software solutions ready for the reference market, customizing each product according to different contexts.

FOCALIS is an innovative startup that develops, produces, and markets medical devices for septic and/or aseptic prosthetic revision procedures. The activity concentrates on integration of existing technologies with new, original solutions capable of rendering surgical operations safer, more effective, and less invasive.The FOCALIS approach aims to reduce the need for replacing prostheses and the risk of relapse, in response to a real need in the orthopaedic sector.

Health Strategy develops software solutions for the health sector, with the purpose of supporting the management and strategic needs of outpatient clinics and health facilities. The startup's solutions aspire towards the streamlining and improvement of the health system through digitalization, optimization of internal processes, and strategic control of health facilities.

VIS Ethic Research is specialized in managing clinical trials for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. It provides support for public and private bodies, CROs, healthcare providers, and scientific companies, accompanying them through all development stages, from planning and start up, to operational and documentary management, to assessment of quality and standards compliance.

FitStadium is a training app devised by the Cesena team of the same name.The startup was founded by Denis Brighi and Luca Domeniconi, graduates in Computer Engineering at Cesena, and Milos Jankovic, a Telecommunications Engineering graduate at Bologna.FitStadium's primary objective was to offer all fitness enthusiasts an online meeting point: so in September 2012, the FitStadium.com social network was launched.

GeneSys Bio comprises a team of four individuals with the mission of revolutionizing the diagnosis of infective diseases and resistance to antibiotics.

Loqui offers a digital psychological support platform accessible on-line through text chat, video calls, or messaging. The system is designed to overcome traditional barriers to the benefits of mental health care, providing safe, anonymous consultancy without ulterior commitments from users or psychologists.

Farma360 is a startup developing a digital platform to support independent chemist's shops by improving their stock management, optimizing orders, and reducing waste. The use of technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning allows integration of B2B and B2C functions to connect chemist's, producers, and consumers.

Pomodoro develops innovative web and mobile solutions aimed primarily at the Pharmaceutical and Green-Economy sectors.For the Green sector it has developed a new social network - WeCity - to spread the culture of sustainable mobility. The positive message is disseminated and promoted through the playing of a game in which users are rewarded depending on how often they use environmentally sustainable means of transport.It is also developing a new bike-sharing project whereby users manage the sharing of bicycles from within a dedicated community.

O-Damp is an innovative startup established as a spin-off from the University of Bologna, dedicated to the development of advanced technologies for personal protection in the motorbike, sport, and workplace safety sectors.

Respyra is a device purposely designed for eliminating viruses and bacteria from the air, while it is also effective for eliminating dust, odours, mould, fungi, and pollen. Thanks to an innovative photocatalytic purification system it can decontaminate indoor air of all pathogenic agents and pollutants through an oxidization process at ambient temperature using the oxygen present in the air and with light produced by specific UV lamps.

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.

We are a technological start-up cooperative in Reggio Emilia and we support people with cognitive disabilities and autism. We apply innovation from our research to create an environment and educational methodology that promotes the identity and autonomy of users. We take the physical, psychic, and social aspects of all users into account as well as the desires and needs of families.

REALVT SRL was founded in June 2019 and is an innovative start-up in the production of multimedia content for physical training with a virtual trainer. It includes customized software for management of audio-video devices and creation of automatic schedules for programmed delivery.

Care-TB Srl was founded in Modena in 2023 and is an innovative startup specialized in the silver economy sector, with a focus on assistance for the elderly.

Bioverse is a start-up that develops and markets electromedical equipment specially designed for emergency and low resource contexts.Bioverse's mission is to reduce a gap in the health service, by exploiting the approaches of reverse engineering and frugal innovation.The main product of Bioverse is Corax, an innovative device that monitors ambient conditions for patients with repressed immune defences, and in particular children suffering from burns.