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Cohort 2025
Bi-Harvest
Bi-Harvest
Bi-Harvest transforms surplus produce and food by-products into high-value, shelf-stable ingredients using waste heat from industrial partners. Through this circular, low-emission process, Bi-Harvest delivers sustainable, traceable inputs for the food, nutraceutical, and cosmetic industries while reducing food waste, repurposing energy, and supporting a resilient circular economy.
BrailleFly
BrailleFly
BrailleFly designs AI-powered assistive wearables that empower blind and visually impaired individuals to live more independently. With the Saturn smart ring for discreet smartphone control and the TiresIA glasses for real-time, offline environment interpretation, BrailleFly combines embedded AI, haptic interaction, and privacy-first design. Beyond technology, BrailleFly fosters inclusion through partnerships with communities and cultural institutions, helping reshape how society understands disability.
eMomentum
eMomentum
eMomentum is an AI-powered, subscription-based solution that helps industrial companies and infrastructure operators reduce energy waste and CO₂ emissions from rotating equipment such as motors, pumps, fans, and compressors. Using non-invasive IoT sensors and advanced analytics, the platform identifies efficiency losses early, recommends the optimal timing for maintenance, and delivers actionable insights with fast ROI—without disrupting existing workflows. By turning maintenance into a driver of sustainability, eMomentum enables smarter decisions, lower costs, and measurable environmental impact.
Lizard
Lizard
Lizard is a Furniture-as-a-Service platform that helps companies and real estate operators furnish spaces flexibly and sustainably. Instead of buying, clients rent high-quality furniture with delivery, maintenance, and end-of-life management included. Powered by AI, Lizard’s digital platform tailors product selection, tracks furniture lifecycles, and supports circular reuse—reducing waste, cutting CO₂ emissions, and enabling adaptable, cost-efficient spaces.
Marea
Marea
Marea transforms traditional navigation markers into intelligent, solar-powered safety beacons for 24/7 maritime security. Purpose-built for challenging environments like the Venetian Lagoon, these durable units combine high-efficiency autonomy, real-time diagnostics, and adaptive lighting to prevent nighttime accidents. MAREA bridges centuries-old maritime heritage with cutting-edge design, offering a sustainable and future-ready solution for safer waterways worldwide.
Play2match
Play2match
Play2match is a community-driven platform that makes it easy to play team sports and meet new people. By pre-booking fields, matching players by skill, age, and interests, and adding a post-game social drink, Play2match transforms sport into a recurring social habit. With its smart matching algorithm and seamless booking system, it reduces loneliness, promotes well-being, and builds inclusive urban communities.
Purifas
Purifas
Purifas develops real-time, portable biosensor for PFAS detection, combined with a community engagement model. Unlike costly and slow lab tests, Purifas solution is 4x more affordable, requires no specialized personnel, and provides instant results. Purifas serve industries, municipalities, and communities facing PFAS contamination, enabling faster compliance with EU regulations and empowering collective action for safe water.
SenseAble Wood
SenseAble Wood
SenseAble Wood creates inclusive “Wood Snoezelen” multisensory spaces built from untreated modular wooden components. By combining the therapeutic Snoezelen approach with the natural benefits of wood, these environments promote relaxation, controlled sensory stimulation, and psychophysical well-being. Designed for schools, hospitals, care centers, workplaces, and communities, SenseAble Wood delivers customizable, sustainable, and high-quality spaces that foster inclusion and healing.
Tunica
Tunica
TUNICA develops an innovative, nature-based process to produce ultra-pure nanocellulose from tunicates—a renewable marine resource with no impact on biodiversity. Compared to plant cellulose, tunicate nanocellulose offers superior strength, stability, and biocompatibility, making it ideal for advanced applications in biomedicine, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and sustainable materials. By transforming a by-product of local aquaculture into a high-value biomaterial, TUNICA combines scientific excellence, blue economy principles, and ecosystem conservation to enable sustainable innovation.
Cohort 2024
Agri-E is an initiative that transforms starch-rich waste into sustainable bioethanol, through an innovative technology that harnesses its proprietary yeasts. Agri-E aims to promote energy independence in agriculture, allowing farms to disengage from volatile diesel prices and decrease carbon emissions.
Agri-E website - pitch video
The Anguana project proposes the use of geobacterial microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to generate direct energy from lagoon and coastal sediments. The approach reduces environmental impact by supporting ecosystem conservation and providing, through a sensor system, useful data to monitor and optimize the maintenance of coastal, wetland and lagoon areas.
Anomaly is an advanced solution that leverages real-time audio spectrum analysis and
high-performance sensors to detect anomalies and drive innovation in the automotive, biomedical, industrial, and real estate sectors. pitch video
ArtCentrica innovates the interdisciplinary art appreciation and learning experience with proprietary software and artificial intelligence. Through the lens of more than 8,000 works of art, from museums around the world, ArtCentrica EDU provides students with a platform where human and artificial intelligence nurture cross-disciplinary skills to meet tomorrow's challenges. With ArtCentrica Ad Hoc innovates the offerings of cultural and tourism venues.
ArtCentrica website - pitch video
Lagom addresses the problem of household food waste.
The goal is to digitize the expiration date to enable consumers to reduce waste,
save money, and have
a positive and sustainable impact on the planet. pitch video
LoceM Solutions' project puts the rental market at the center. Promoting digital innovation and higher service standards, the startup proposes a digital platform to visualize rental supply, manage demand, and optimize resources.
LoceM web site - pitch video
PALOMAR is a platform that facilitates access to experiences capable of enhancing both visitors and hosting cities. Through a selection of activities that explore the connections between man, sea and land, it transforms travel into an opportunity for connection and insight. The project will debut in Venice, an emblem of the delicate balance between tourism and the environment, with the goal of expanding to other coastal cities. pitch video
Preinvel redefines industrial filtering by introducing a unique technology based on the laws of fluid dynamics, the same laws that make it possible for an airplane to fly. This innovative fluid-dynamic filter technology not only dramatically reduces harmful industrial emissions for workers and communities, but also completely eliminates the maintenance and disposal costs of traditional filters, while providing a significant reduction in operating costs. With a sustainable and extremely energy-efficient design, Preinvel is a practical and revolutionary answer to environmental challenges, reconciling industrial productivity and public health protection.
Previel website - pitch video
SiWeGO Srl - Smart Eco Transport aims to optimize the use
of unused space in vehicles by connecting those who ship packages with carriers who travel the same route.
This approach reduces CO2 emissions and traffic, providing an economical and sustainable alternative for shipping.
SiWeGO website - pitch video
During festivals in Venice, long lines and food waste are two main problems. ZAC! offers an innovative solution by allowing users to reserve orders in advance, reducing wait times and improving food management for organizers. pitch video
Cohort 2023
Algae Scope is developing scalable ocean macroalgae farms for carbon capture, ocean restoration, and the production of biofuels and biomaterials from regenerative biomass. This will enable industries to reduce their GHG emissions, de-fossilise, and transition to sustainable solutions.
Bottlemap Unica offers innovative smart bottles that help users locate drinkable water fountains and facilitate contactless payments for public transportation. This sustainable solution reduces plastic waste by encouraging reusable bottle usage while enhancing convenience for eco-conscious travelers.
Bys italia consists in developing and installing photovoltaic cycle-pedestrian panels. The opportunity of such technology is to produce electricity from renewables by installing photovoltaics even on the ground on bicycle paths, boosting the energy transition.
Grow.we is a modular living sculpture that brings you and your community closer to Nature. It is a piece of furniture with the Internet of Things paradigm, developed to grow living organisms: animals, plants, fungi and others in a community knowledge sharing approach.
Eathic is an app that simplifies orders between restaurants and food suppliers. Today the Restaurant Owner use different tools to place an order, because every supplier uses different methods for selling their products. We want create a unique "place" to see products details and order directly without losing time.
FARAD is committed to providing affordable, zero-emission waterborne transport solutions. Our tailored, optimized, modular, and plug-and-play full-electric systems, featuring supercapacitors and an innovative patented aerospace-derived distributed propulsion system, significantly reduce operational costs. This mission encompasses new vessel designs and retrofit solutions, ensuring a smooth and reliable transition to a sustainable maritime future.
Horizon, an innovative aviation startup, addresses environmental and economic challenges. Our mission is to make electric flight accessible to a wide audience. With our compact eVTOL aircraft, we democratize flying, reducing environmental impact, and removing barriers for aspiring pilots.
pitch video
E-commerce puts physical shops under pressure. Odibuy focuses on traditional retail to increase its competitiveness by enhancing customer experience with a digital system, turning a window from static into interactive. The Odibuy system is a new opportunity to increase sales, keep managing costs under control and give new opportunities to final consumers.
Odibuy website - pitch video
The Tidal Garden is a venture based in the Venetian Lagoon that designs the emergence of new food habits in times of rising sea levels. We create a supply chain of salt-tolerant plants that connects farmers and chefs in the definition of a new gastronomic culture.
The Tidal Garden website - pitch video
Vérabuccia® is the name of the circular economy project that includes an innovative patented production process to create a new material from the recovery of the peel. The first result, AnanasseTM starts from the pineapple to obtain a flexible and rot-proof sheet, with a reptile like surface, for fashion, design and other applications.
Vérabuccia website - pitch video
Cohort 2022
2Gift makes it easy to support a local cause or neighborhood sports club through day-to-day shopping at local stores and supermarkets.
Our device uses renewable energy sources to reduce fuel consumption and emission of CO2 and pollutants of combustion engines.
Tectum Garden is a service to design and maintain your outdoor plants. With this project we want to help people grow in their terraces and balconies, transforming cities into greener and more sustainable places.
Makes available an innovative fundraising platform for the preservation of heritage for Municipalities, Foundations and Museums. The donor can decide the portion of the monument or artifacts he intends to support and record the donation in an immutable way. Donations are rewarded with coupons for purchases of local products and services, related to the traditions and creativity that enrich the notion of Heritage.
Our mission is to decrease marine pollution by creating the first worldwide charging infrastructure network for electric boat users thanks to our patented E-dock charging and docking system.
We envision a world where travelers always contribute to make the places they visit better. We have created a marketplace full of unique experiences that allow you to add "values" to your time. When you book Fairup, you donate half of the commission to a local social project, connected with the experience. Live new experiences with us and fairup the communities you visit.
Promotes sustainable fishing through a web platform that connects global fishing enthusiasts with local experts who can share knowledge and equipment, while amortizing their costs.
Rehub gives new value to glass waste. They have developed a process to transform Murano glass waste into a “ paste” that can be extruded using a 3D printer or injected inside molds, creating new objects that are made from 100% Murano glass, while reducing energy consumption and the environmental impact of the glass industry.
Sea the Change gives a unique and comprehensive solution to companies to meet their sustainability needs through innovative CSR services aimed to protect marine ecosystems in order to address carbon neutrality through the Blue Carbon Credits to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Venetian lagoon and in other seaside locations.
Voga Yachts designs and produces hydrogen-electric, low-wave boats to give people the peace of mind to move freely on a cleaner planet.
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