Startups

Our service allows customers to purchase unsold food products at 50% of their list price through our proprietary application; this allows a drastic decrease of food waste by simplifying the resale of products that would otherwise be thrown away.We ensure total transparency of the service regarding product quality and care for customer needs.

Real Time OCM is a SanChip Innovation (SCI) project, an innovative start-up with the objective of helping companies who own industrial machinery, means of transport (e.g. ships), machines for producing energy (e.g. wind turbines, gas engines, etc.), and OEMs to implement predictive maintenance for their machine assets.

Air Factory is an innovative start-up based in Piacenza and incubated at the Urban Hub. We design and develop services to validate and certify the performance quality of environmental data from test laboratories that monitor atmospheric emissions.

Ulisse Solutions Srl aims to develop new packaging products, with a particular focus on the food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics sectors.The company is concentrated on the development and marketing or an innovative film, made from food processing waste materials, that can extend the shelf life of processed products.

(Re) Vision's mission is to pursue improvement strategies while preserving everyday smooth management. A management consulting firm that seeks to bridge the worlds of research and business, with a range of management-support services that are the result of university research on which (Re) Vision has also collaborated.

Dynamic and innovative expertise to energy efficiency, home automation and the production of renewable energie.

Cool Roof Company was born from the initiative of two professionals who have been working for years on passive cooling techniques for civic, industrial and agricultural buildings.

UP Urban Planning Ltd is an engineering company that deals in a multidisciplinary way with local urban transformation  through the use of decision support tools and urban data to integrate multiple contexts. The planning activity is always focused on avoiding the creation of a duality between sustainability projects and users behaviour, a duality that is often the source of inequity. Urban Planning is thus making use of economic and financial strategies in order to translate the idea into reality.

SaferPlaces is an innovative startup that develops digital technologies based on artificial intelligence, geospatial data, and climate models to support cities, public bodies, and insurers in the assessment and management of risk of floods and other extreme climate events.

General Swiss Energy offers high-efficiency, high-quality design products and solutions in LED lighting, for both the industrial and residential markets.

The project called “A Tree for the Future” started as a national campaign for urban reforestation, preservation of green areas, creation of environmental education programs in schools, and activation of programs for social inclusion of fragile individuals.

Hydrosynergy was established in June 2010 by biologists from the BiGeA Department of the University of Bologna.

Established in late 2013, MSX Technology produces innovative ventilation louvres for the unit heater, heat exchanger and cooling tower markets.The target sectors are energy production and the treatment of petrochemical waste, as well as heat generation in general, both industrial and civil. This market is growing rapidly, especially in countries experiencing population growth.MSX Technology has developed a new and innovative ventilation louvre with components that are fully optimised both in terms of weight and production efficiency.

Established as a limited company in June 2010, Techno GF is engaged in the study, development and application of energy-saving software. Working on the premise that solar radiation behaves in a similar manner to the propagation of radio waves, this startup uses a sophisticated ray tracing program for the prediction of radio coverage in an urban environment, developing it to calculate solar intensity (in collaboration with the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems at the University of Bologna). 

ALFRED24 TECH deals with first and last mile logistics for the e-commerce world. This includes an internal network of dispatch and collection points, package lockers, smart lockers, with additional package services, and condominium lockers.  

DIFLY, a leading company in Italy in the drone sector, provides comprehensive, high–value aerial services for companies and public authorities, including:photogrammetry and geomappingenvironmental and river analysisphotovoltaic field inspections and analysisprecision agriculturestructural and infrastructure inspectionsevidence collection, investigations, and OCP (crime scene investigations)