Startups

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.

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.

Rippotai combines sensory elements like sight and hearing with a philosophy based on eco-design and the use of recyclable and recycled materials.Rippotai's activity is thus oriented along two directions:

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.

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.

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.

Nestart arose as a spin-off from Bordoni Bonfiglio srl, a structural metalwork company that forms and laser cuts metal components for various sectors. Each day, Bordoni's production generates waste sheet metal offcuts. Nestart was established to treat these leftovers not as waste but as a potential for transformation into prestige items.

LFA is the owner of the WeMaMy brand, an innovative solution in the customer service sector, distinguished by a strongly customer oriented approach and continuous improvement of customer experience.The core business is founded on careful interception, understanding, and customized response to user needs, through the implementation of advanced technologies.

Pointer is an innovative startup that implements a proprietary mobile marketing platform that enables brand names to take advantage of artificial intelligence for transmitting customized and effective communication campaigns.The platform collects data on user behaviour and preferences to generate profiled and measurable initiatives in real-time.

INCREMENTA is an innovative startup active in the digital marketing sector with a strong vocation for neuromarketing, which is the application of neuroscience to traditional marketing to investigate the behaviour of consumers in response to advertising stimuli.

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.

MagicFood is an interactive hardware toy designed to help children (4-9 years) to develop and maintain healthy and sustainable eating habits. This is achieved by combining play with consolidated principles derived from psychology and behavioural science to achieve an effective education process that is engaging and motivating.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leafbox is an online search engine for finding tourist facilities (restaurants, hotels, B&Bs, farms, wellness centres and spas, etc.) and an e-commerce tool for buying tourist and leisure time services, as well as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, pet-friendly and eco-friendly catering services. 

An innovative social startup in the field of culture and cultural tourism in general, with an emphasis on Italian language and culture. It carries out research and development into new technologies and digital content for the communication of cultural products and services.

OfficinAcrobatica SSD is a young female-led non-profit start-up, founded in September 2021, dedicated to contemporary circus and the psycho-physical well-being of individuals.

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.