Startups

PARTYBAG is a portable audio system powered by rechargeable batteries, built into a backpack and characterised by being high fidelity, easily portable and compatible with all of the common sound sources, including microphones, musical instruments, mp3 players and mobile phones.Thanks to a passion for technology, combined with university training in technical engineering, the team has been developing technology projects since 2010, experimenting with new ideas to improve performance, with particular reference to sound broadcasting.

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.

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

SuperAbile is an MVR (Mixed Virtual Reality) system that creates time windows, opened by company-owned AI applications, at the main features of interest along a museum or historical tour.

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.

22hbg SRL was established in Ferrara in October 2011 as a Digital Systems Integrator and since then has invested in research and development in the field of radio technologies to create dedicated and customised hardware and software solutions.

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.

ITIMERE SRL use their brand “La Macchina del Tempo” [The Time Machine] to manage a Virtual Reality Museum in Bologna. Here the public use special visors for various VR experiences in historical reconstruction, immersing themselves in first person and interacting with the environment in an active way.

R3PLICA is developing a 3D platform for the architecture and interior design sector. The service gives access to a certified catalogue of digital replicas of products, materials, and finishes supplied directly by brands, complete with technical data.

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. 

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.

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.

Improovo brings to market the first crowdsourcing platform exclusively dedicated to the world of business training and management consultancy. In its web platform, supply and demand of business training are brought together through a peer-to-peer brokerage service among companies looking for the best trainers and training providers.

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.

GO-OZ is a company with three partners, Pietro Galifi, Stefano Moretti, and Alessandro Furlan, arriving from previous experiences in computer graphics, creation of multimedia systems, and in particular the development of systems and content for virtual reality, a technological sector they have followed for more than 35 years. GO-OZ was founded as a company dedicated to the development of new sensory devices for virtual reality.

Hamlet plans to test and consolidate the business model of a multi-sided public digital platform for the creation of outreach services addressed to local authorities, associations, informal groups, existing and new economic operators, community and citizen cooperatives.