e-Novia

e-Novia, established in 2012 and based in Milan, is a company focused on transforming innovative ideas into tangible products. Known as "the Enterprises Factory," it specializes in promoting and developing startups in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and mobility. e-Novia collaborates with research institutes and international corporations to leverage intellectual property, fostering an environment where researchers can become entrepreneurs. The company boasts a team of 130 professionals, with its ecosystem expanding to 250 when including portfolio companies. With over 30 entrepreneurial projects and more than 50 patents, e-Novia is dedicated to building solid enterprises that drive technological advancement in various sectors, including automotive and urban mobility.

Past deals in Adriatic

Blubrake

Series A in 2020
Blubrake is a prominent company specializing in the development of advanced mechatronic systems for bicycles, particularly e-bikes and e-cargo bikes. The company has created an innovative anti-lock braking system (ABS) that can be seamlessly integrated into the frame of various e-bike models, enhancing safety for riders across different cycling environments, including urban, mountain, trekking, and cargo applications. This lightweight and discreet technology significantly improves the cycling experience by preventing front-wheel lock and rear-wheel lift through its electronic control system, which includes a haptic warning signal and is compatible with various brake types, such as disc and hydraulic systems.

Existo S.r.l.

Funding Round in 2019
Existo S.r.l. is a developer of innovative wearable technology aimed at enhancing human capabilities in daily living. The company's flagship product, Sixto, is a sixth robotic finger that serves as a wearable grasping device. Sixto features a single degree of freedom, allowing it to create a hybrid grasping mechanism that integrates with the user's hand. This technology not only augments the hand's grasping ability but also provides an intelligent holding point and can be personalized with interchangeable modules to suit various needs. Additionally, Sixto enables users to extend their grip away from the hand, making it particularly useful in potentially hazardous environments. The device is designed to assist individuals with disabilities by compensating for missing hand functions and improving overall functional scope.

Blimp

Convertible Note in 2019
Blimp has created the Head-Counter device, which gathers real-time data on the flow of people and vehicles in various environments, both indoor and outdoor. This technology processes sampled images to determine audience volume and sociodemographic information, including gender, age, and emotional state, within a 60-meter range. The device operates with a focus on privacy, as it processes images directly on-site and only transmits aggregated, anonymized data to the cloud. In addition to monitoring foot traffic, Blimp offers a digital platform that allows users to oversee audience metrics at multiple points of interest within cities. This platform facilitates the purchase and sale of advertising space, providing valuable insights into advertising campaign effectiveness and enabling space owners to manage pricing and availability effectively.

HiRide Suspension Srl

Convertible Note in 2019
HiRide designs, develops and manufactures smart active suspensions for different bike categories, from those which traditionally use suspensions – mountain bikes – to all-road, gravel and sport commuting branches. HiRide suspension system, through sophisticated dynamic control algorithms can understand maneuvers, riding style and road conditions and it can activate automatically to adapt the suspensions’ reaction to maximize the bike stability.

Smart Robots S.r.l.

Funding Round in 2019
Smart Robots product combines 3D perception and artificial intelligence to assist human operators in Smart Factories, to provide process quality control and to improve productivity. Smart Robots builds a digital twin of the human operator and of the environment in order to manage the human workstation. It can be used in two different configurations for quality control or human robot collaboration. Smart Robots for quality control recognizes and prevents errors in manual workstations to improve the quality of the process. The product is a digital assistant of the human, guiding the operations and checking the correctness of the activities and certifying the process.

Huxelerate

Seed Round in 2019
Huxelerate is a DevOps Platform for high-performance computing that allows to create, optimize and adapt high-performance code in easy, fast and cost-efficient way, without requiring any specialized low-level programmingcompetences. Huxelerate was born to enable every software company to process data at speed, bringing the benefits of HPC out of its niche. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Milan, Italy.

Wahu S.r.l.

Funding Round in 2019
WAHU product is the very first active sole able to adapt its morphology to changes both in the external environment, like terrain, temperature or humidity, and in the dynamic state of the user. Thanks to the unique Italian design and the latest technology, the sole right balances the hi-tech functionality, and the style. WAHU active sole can change its morphology thanks to a series of interconnected chambers, with a particular bellow structure, filled by air through a miniaturized electro-plunger, able to be locked and unlocked. This mechanism allows the sole volumetric changes and, consequently, its grip and cushioning.

Measy S.r.l.

Seed Round in 2019
Measy is a technology enabler aimed at integrating the delivery into the product sales value chain. Measy is composed by a professional vehicle designed for last mile delivery based on the following assets: a patented technology ables to actively control load oscillations and its stability, ensuring product preservation and rider safety during the transport; an intelligent box able to actively control the internal temperature, that is geolocated through an integrated tracking system; lastly, a digital platform that uses the vehicle's on-board technologies to provide additional services to augment the delivery experience for stores and end users.

Weart

Funding Round in 2019
Weart specializes in haptic technology aimed at digitalizing the sense of touch, enhancing experiences in virtual and augmented reality. The company develops wearable and portable devices that enable users to experience realistic tactile sensations, including texture, temperature, and forces. This technology allows for the recording and reproduction of tactile interactions, facilitating immersive VR training sessions in fields like medicine and industry, as well as improving in-store shopping and e-commerce by providing users with a more engaging experience. By merging concepts from science fiction with practical applications, Weart creates innovative solutions that enhance user interaction with digital environments.

HiRide Suspension Srl

Seed Round in 2018
HiRide designs, develops and manufactures smart active suspensions for different bike categories, from those which traditionally use suspensions – mountain bikes – to all-road, gravel and sport commuting branches. HiRide suspension system, through sophisticated dynamic control algorithms can understand maneuvers, riding style and road conditions and it can activate automatically to adapt the suspensions’ reaction to maximize the bike stability.

Weart

Funding Round in 2018
Weart specializes in haptic technology aimed at digitalizing the sense of touch, enhancing experiences in virtual and augmented reality. The company develops wearable and portable devices that enable users to experience realistic tactile sensations, including texture, temperature, and forces. This technology allows for the recording and reproduction of tactile interactions, facilitating immersive VR training sessions in fields like medicine and industry, as well as improving in-store shopping and e-commerce by providing users with a more engaging experience. By merging concepts from science fiction with practical applications, Weart creates innovative solutions that enhance user interaction with digital environments.

Y.Share

Funding Round in 2018
Y.Share provides solutions to create the digital twin of every vehicle and of every professional fleet. The digital twin is a digital representation of the vehicle, providing a data driven, 4.0 management of any kind of vehicle fleet and enabling the usage of advanced AI-driven algorithms to enhance the fleet performance, optimize usage, reduce the carbon footprint and transform a physical asset into a completely digital asset.

Blimp

Funding Round in 2018
Blimp has created the Head-Counter device, which gathers real-time data on the flow of people and vehicles in various environments, both indoor and outdoor. This technology processes sampled images to determine audience volume and sociodemographic information, including gender, age, and emotional state, within a 60-meter range. The device operates with a focus on privacy, as it processes images directly on-site and only transmits aggregated, anonymized data to the cloud. In addition to monitoring foot traffic, Blimp offers a digital platform that allows users to oversee audience metrics at multiple points of interest within cities. This platform facilitates the purchase and sale of advertising space, providing valuable insights into advertising campaign effectiveness and enabling space owners to manage pricing and availability effectively.

Blubrake

Seed Round in 2018
Blubrake is a prominent company specializing in the development of advanced mechatronic systems for bicycles, particularly e-bikes and e-cargo bikes. The company has created an innovative anti-lock braking system (ABS) that can be seamlessly integrated into the frame of various e-bike models, enhancing safety for riders across different cycling environments, including urban, mountain, trekking, and cargo applications. This lightweight and discreet technology significantly improves the cycling experience by preventing front-wheel lock and rear-wheel lift through its electronic control system, which includes a haptic warning signal and is compatible with various brake types, such as disc and hydraulic systems.

Smart Robots S.r.l.

Seed Round in 2017
Smart Robots product combines 3D perception and artificial intelligence to assist human operators in Smart Factories, to provide process quality control and to improve productivity. Smart Robots builds a digital twin of the human operator and of the environment in order to manage the human workstation. It can be used in two different configurations for quality control or human robot collaboration. Smart Robots for quality control recognizes and prevents errors in manual workstations to improve the quality of the process. The product is a digital assistant of the human, guiding the operations and checking the correctness of the activities and certifying the process.

Blubrake

Seed Round in 2015
Blubrake is a prominent company specializing in the development of advanced mechatronic systems for bicycles, particularly e-bikes and e-cargo bikes. The company has created an innovative anti-lock braking system (ABS) that can be seamlessly integrated into the frame of various e-bike models, enhancing safety for riders across different cycling environments, including urban, mountain, trekking, and cargo applications. This lightweight and discreet technology significantly improves the cycling experience by preventing front-wheel lock and rear-wheel lift through its electronic control system, which includes a haptic warning signal and is compatible with various brake types, such as disc and hydraulic systems.
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