Startups

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.

Nexter srl is an innovative startup established in 2021 and based in Rubiera (RE). Our mission is to design and manufacture innovative technological solutions based on electronics and IT to make our world ever more integrated, free, and collaborative. We are faithful to Italian design culture all the way from conception to design. Italian creativity and technology is built into all our products.

Studio Croma Animation is an animation studio specialized in the production of cinematic works and audio-visual content for advertising and Internet. They apply the stop-motion technique, using sequences of photographs to create movement and lend personality to objects and inanimate puppets. The creative process that distinguishes their products is characterized by a perfect mix of hand-crafted construction techniques, technology, and digital processing.

Nestart is a start-up born out of the company Bordoni Bonfiglio Srl. The innovative aspect derives from the use of waste materials from the mother company.

Work Music World is a music-related project that allows subscribers from all over the world to work together.The portal is completely free and offers users a wide range of services, including the possibility to upload their songs for free to iTunes and other portals (the first in the world to offer this service free of charge).Members of the team have experience in computer science and music (production, entrepreneurship and development).The portal was presented in 2012 at the Festival of Sanremo. 

Harrier is an Industrial Design company that offers design and consultation services for lines of furniture and household accessories.Research of materials and technological innovation are at the heart of Harrier's products. From design to pre-series production, Harrier guarantees the development and performance of the product, as well as support with the marketing.

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.

Kopjra is the brainchild of a group of computer science and law students looking to find entrepreneurial synergy in their respective business areas.The company's core business is currently internet copyright protection, with a view to acquiring the technologies and expertise to enable expansion into trademark, patent and privacy protection.Kopjra is one of the TIM #WCAP Bologna 2014 startup batch, one of the EIT ICT Labs coached companies and has received initial funding from BAN Custodi di Successo.

T°RED is an innovative startup focused on projects that combine the most advanced research in technology and energy with the architectural design of new urban functional elements and home furnishings design: conception, testing, detailed design, development and marketing, in collaboration with a network of partners.Among the projects ready for the market:• Greenlantern - a liquid wood lamp-vase, the first object in the world made with this material;• LaDinDon and Gulp - seats made with marine technology;

People 3.0 is a Cooperative Society of freelancers and small businesses formed in December 2010 that supports companies involved with organisational innovation, using social matrix technologies to introduce participatory and collaborative dynamics in relationships within companies as well as with customers and suppliers.

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.

The company was founded in 2017 from the idea of a pool of engineers with over 15 years of direct experience in the wholesale energy and environmental markets. Its primary mission is to spread and uphold the policies of environmental sustainability though research, development, and the spread of innovative solutions (not only technological) addressing both energy consumers and operators.

Sonne Film is an independent production company founded in 2010 that makes Creation documentaries and television series.

46Sports is the first digital and interactive sports almanac, dedicated to amateurs and youth. Created by a group of enthusiasts, the system allows the profiling of athletes and the analysis of their performance. It is also a very powerful and effective search tool for talent scouts.

A platform on which emerging artists can collect funds from investors, represented by fans of their social media channels, relatives, friends, and other subscribed artists.

CrossHyde is an innovative integrated digital system capable of video communication with a profiled public using any glass and/or Plexiglas surface without modifying its original nature (transparency). Applied to windows or any other transparent surface, it is capable, when triggered and for a specific time, of transforming a window into a screen for communicating messages defined on the basis of the general characteristics of the audience present, as detected using sensors (e.g. man/woman, age range, etc.).

Every day Xelia express their creativity, determination, evolutionary capacity, and skills. The company is distinguished by a special attention to the human dimension with methodological reliability, flexibility, strong professionalism, good time-keeping, and cost efficiency. The innovativeness of Xelia emerges from unique work implementations and applied technologies, which mainly come from the Open Source world.