Startups

Established in August 2011 by Pietro Ferraris, Simone Biagiotti and Michele Orsi, map2app is a web platform that enables anyone to create a mobile travel app, or a local guide in the form of a native app for iPhone and Android, and distribute it - getting paid in the process - through leading application stores (Apple Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore).Creating an app using map2app is as simple as creating a blog. All you need to do is enter the content, choose the look of the app (template or individual items) and publish it.

Yougo is a company founded in 2020 by professionals working in the world of events and entertainment, with head office in Bologna. The company was established with the aim of sustaining innovation in the organization and participation in events using modern technology and in line with national and European policies for digital transition towards environmental and economic sustainability.

inThinkers aims to revolutionise human and business relationships, simplifying and constantly renewing them by supporting positive, ethical, innovative, and sustainable social change.

Hooro, through its proprietary device and integrated system, collects data on consumer behaviour in the physical stores and before their check-out. A IoT system sends the purchase data to the server, which uses an automatic learning algorithm to build customer journey models and predict customer buying behaviours. Unlike other solutions on the market (Computer Vision, RFiD tags, NFC), Hooro IoT device has no impact on product packaging, and a very minimal impact on the store structure, and it generates data for both retailers and consumers. 

Traxit have developed an IoT diagnostic platform that enables the tracing of people and things anywhere in the world. Connected telemetric devices complaint with all safety standards are used in planes, logistics, and road transport. In particular, the patented device for tracing baggage in planes is among the first in the world to be compliant with the regulations of the European Aviation Safety Agency, automatically switching to safe mode during all stages of flight.

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.  

HQ Consulting develops software solutions and provides consultancy for company management. It supports other companies, in particular SMEs, for the digitalization of operating processes through automation, reporting systems, assistance, and dedicated training.

Taldeg is an acceleration program on an e-learning platform for training artists and creative individuals, teaching them business and digital techniques. Once our subscribers are trained they can access the best market opportunities by getting into contact with exhibition spaces and companies interested in their artistic services.

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

The Whole Platform is an open source technology for engineering the production of software.Based on the idea that programming is an activity concerning the development of domain languages, the Whole Platform provides an Eclipse-based Language Workbench for developing new languages, manipulating them using domain notations and transforming them using a generative model driven approach.

For 15 years Optit has been offering IT solutions based on advanced mathematics, data science, analytics, and optimization in support of company innovation.We improve efficiency and effectiveness for medium and large sized companies in diverse sectors (energy, refuse, logistics, retail sales) through innovative support systems for decision making.

Fluid-A is an innovative startup that specialises in the design of fluid machines, energy conversion and exchange systems and data acquisition systems.

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.

Traxed enables companies to certify and trace data using blockchain and digital signing.Using a simple interface that requires no technical knowledge, companies can immutably write any data in a blockchain, both autonomous data or regarding other companies.The data are digitally signed by a special function creating a legally binding certification.

Aqrate is the answer for anyone who wants to optimise the costs of translation. An innovative approach that focuses on content analysis to increase economic efficiency by introducing new qualitative controls.

The underlying aim of the ”Rfmcube” computer program is to enable small to middle-sized companies active on Internet to increase the effectiveness of their online marketing strategies with an easy-to-use but exceptionally specific instrument. It strikes a balance between the need to achieve growth in sales, and the need to reduce management costs for company information and marketing processes.

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.

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.