Jinn-Bot Robotics & Design
Grant in 2019
Jinn-Bot Robotics & Design GmbH" produces robotic systems based on industry standard modules for training and technology users. All components are 100% digitally developed and produced with 3D printers worldwide. These manufacturing methods enable the Robotic customer to produce spare parts or to integrate new developments based on CAD data. The Windows and Android-controlled robots can be easily expanded by individually optimized functions thanks to a «jinn open source concept». Extensions are, for example, motion sensors, infrared sensors, solar panels, voice control - the possibilities are inexhaustible. Further Robotioc solutions for various everyday applications are under development.
Usability Engineering Center
Grant in 2019
Usability Engineering Center is a firm that specializes in providing usability services aimed at delivering authentic user feedback through diverse research methodologies. The company offers a comprehensive range of services, including business analysis, digital content strategy, digital communication, and digital strategy consulting. By focusing on user-centered design, Usability Engineering Center aims to enhance the effectiveness of digital products and services, ensuring they meet the needs and expectations of their users.
OKINLAB GmbH provides design software for clients to design individual furniture on their own and have it produced within a reasonable price.
CREAL develops near-eye light-field displays for virtual and augmented reality, delivering true optical depth and more immersive, strain-free viewing. Its patented light-field micro-display technology stack projects images with depth cues that mimic real-world sight, addressing eye strain, nausea, and discomfort commonly associated with current headsets while enabling a smaller form factor and simpler manufacturing. The company focuses on enabling natural, healthy visual experiences in AR hardware, supporting more comfortable long-term use.
Springa is a startup of designers and engineers developing autonomous robotic tools for digital fabrication. Their mission is to allow everyone being creative and building big projects, wherever they want.
They began this adventure creating Goliath CNC, the first portable and autonomous CNC machine that changes the way of makers, designers and professionals work on flat surfaces. Founded in 2016, they are based in Milano at PoliHub, the startup incubator of the Politecnico di Milano.
Optima Design Automation
Grant in 2019
Optima Design Automation develops electronic design automation tools and services for the functional safety verification of automotive integrated circuits. Its platform provides fault analysis, performance analysis, and security analysis to help the automotive industry design safer, more reliable chips at an accelerated pace. The company offers Optima-SE, a selective hardening solution that mitigates soft-errors and supports ASIL-B, ASIL-C, or ASIL-D while reducing engineering and silicon costs, and Optima-HE, a hard-error coverage tool designed for ISO-26262 compliance and the development of software test libraries. Its ultra-fast fault-simulation technology enables fault-simulations far faster than traditional RTL and GL approaches, addressing safety-critical applications throughout the semiconductor design cycle.
ARCHITEChTURES
Grant in 2019
Architectures offers a cloud-based, artificial intelligence-aided design tool specifically tailored for the residential sector, significantly reducing design time from months to mere hours. This innovative platform integrates machine learning technology with big data to automate the design process, enabling architects and designers to create residential units that meet client specifications efficiently. By facilitating real-time optimization of area, cost, and energy consumption, Architectures streamlines the development of construction blueprints, allowing for the generation of editable files. As a result, architects, urban planners, real estate developers, and consultants can produce high-quality, error-free designs more quickly and at a lower cost. The tool supports an iterative design process, empowering users to refine their projects until complete satisfaction is achieved.
Draw Me A Garden
Grant in 2018
Draw Me A Garden empowers homeowners to create beautiful, affordable, and low-maintenance gardens. Their platform offers 3D design tools, garden kits, and expert advice for planning, drawing, and managing personalized outdoor spaces.
Natural Dyer
Grant in 2018
Naturaldyer.com is an innovative web platform to promote digital weaving and natural dyeing choosing yarns and pigments creating new and original custom textiles products.
Gordon Murray Design
Grant in 2018
Gordon Murray Design Limited, established in 2007 and located in Shalford, United Kingdom, specializes in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of electric vehicles. The company has gained a global reputation as one of the leading automotive design teams, known for its innovative manufacturing technology, iStream®, which aims to revolutionize the industry. Gordon Murray Design distinguishes itself by maintaining comprehensive in-house capabilities for design, prototyping, and development, countering the prevalent trend of subcontracting in the automotive sector. The company's commitment to innovation positions it as a potential leader in the future of automotive design.
Daan Tech designs and markets innovative household appliances. Its flagship product, Bob, is an ultra-fast, compact dishwasher suited for small spaces, ideal for active students and young people. The company aims to expand its product range and reach across Europe.
Extrema S.r.l. is a modern and dynamic company based in Bagnolo S. Vito (Mantua-Italy), specialised in the design and realisation of instruments for eliminating architectural barriers, in other words obstacles that prevent people with reduced mobility from moving freely.
Extrema’s goal is simple and clear: to realise stairlifts and vertical platforms lifts of the highest quality using the latest technology, to give the customer the best possible solution to solve problems associated with accessibility also in the presence of particularly restricted spaces.
Extrema is part of Lodi Group, a factory that has been producing light mechanical steelwork for farm machinery and earth-moving machines since 1958 and supplied its products to some of the biggest names in the tractor sector all over the world.
Invis connect two very different worlds.
The first is heritage of classic watches and straps producers. Masterpiece and design.
The second is innovation that powers technology race. This connection enables us to be invisible.
Refecor is a technology company that specializes in providing comprehensive design solutions for various industries, including healthcare, sports, and consumer electronics. They offer a wide range of services, from embedded software solutions to full production design, encompassing system engineering, antenna design, software design, and user interface design, among others. Refecor also provides testing, quality checks, and production support, enabling clients to manage their projects on a turnkey basis.
Innomaq 21 is specialized in the design and manufacture of innovative and customized industrial equipment for steel industries.
Demede Engineering & Research
Grant in 2018
Demede is an engineering and research company specialized in the design and manufacture of customized equipment and turnkey projects for R + D + i. Its team is an expert in the design, development and construction of test benches, prototypes, pilot plants and research facilities.
Meshporto is a design & software development company based in Porto, Portugal.
The company itself has over 20 years of combined experience, and know a thing or two about designing and programming websites and mobile apps. Clever use of technology and lean processes enable them to work faster and smarter.
Prise Systems
Grant in 2017
The company develops and manufactures state of the art systems integrating electronics, mechanics, optics, software and algorithm development in the fields of medical equipment, media inspection, telecommunications, printing, audio and lab equipment.
Company services range from presenting solutions for particular problems to supplying complete integrated systems including concept definition, design and development, PCB design, project management, logistics, purchasing and manufacturing.
Prise Systems, by the expertise of the team, is providing creative and efficient solutions to hard-to-solve problems.
The company operates by bringing together teams of highly experienced professionals in multiple complimenting fields, thus placing the company in a unique position to serve various needs of high-tech companies.
Comcores ApS
Grant in 2017
Comcores ApS is a specialized provider of IP cores for communication systems, focusing on the development and customization of digital radio systems for wireless communication. Founded in 2014 by Thomas Gerner Nørgaard, the company delivers both stand-alone IP components and integrated solutions tailored to the specific needs of its clients. Comcores assists organizations in realizing their digital communication objectives by offering a range of customizable products, including components for application-specific integrated circuits and field-programmable gate arrays. Through its design services and expertise in digital radio technology, Comcores supports companies in building advanced electronic devices.
My Esel GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Linz, Austria, specializes in designing and manufacturing custom bicycles, including e-bikes made from sustainable wood frames. The company stands out for its use of advanced biometric software, which facilitates highly automated production while allowing for a unique serial finishing process. This innovative approach enables customers to create tailor-made bicycles that reflect their individual preferences and needs. By combining sustainability with cutting-edge technology, My Esel aims to provide some of the most personalized bikes in the world, ensuring both quality and adaptability in their offerings.
Holzammer Kunststofftechnik
Grant in 2017
Holzammer Kunststofftechnik focuses on modeling and mold making, development of design and production - all from one source.
DesignPro is a provider of precision automation and machine build services to a variety of industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, aviation, automotive, cosmetics and renewable energy.
Based in County Limerick, Ireland the company has developed a reputation as a creative and highly professional partner to some of the world’s largest multinationals. Providing a complete turnkey solution, their services include: problem analysis, design, prototyping, build, installation and maintenance.
Co Stamp is a manufacturing company of aluminum and magnesium die casting dies and plastic injection molds for the automotive and industrial applications. Its research and development department works with the aim of lengthening the life of the molds and improving the quality of the pieces produced.
The European Community has recognized Co.stamp as an important prize, with regard to the Horizon 2020 program, aimed at promoting the best development projects of the year.
Aran Technologies
Grant in 2017
Aran Technologies, founded in 1982, is an Israeli product design and development firm that specializes in the plastics industry. The company provides comprehensive in-house product development and manufacturing services across various sectors, including defense and homeland security, medical devices, water solutions, and consumer and industrial products. With a team of 150 employees, Aran operates a fully integrated facility that features R&D laboratories, design studios, and an ISO 13485 certified cleanroom for medical device manufacturing. Additionally, Aran initiates and invests in its own medical startups that focus specifically on cardiovascular, laparoscopy, and gastrointestinal endoscopy technologies, enhancing its portfolio in the medical field. Their commitment to quality is underscored by their ISO 9001 certification, ensuring that their products meet high standards in design and functionality.
Adimant is a Danish engineering consulting company that specializes in advanced services related to topology optimization and 3D printing, with a particular focus on their integration. The company supports industrial clients across various sectors, including aerospace, aviation, medical, and tooling, in developing optimal product designs that not only enhance performance but also reduce manufacturing costs. Adimant leverages its proprietary optimization tools to deliver expert assistance, enabling clients to capitalize on the design flexibility offered by additive manufacturing. This synergy between topology optimization and 3D printing allows for the creation of complex structures, resulting in significant savings in both time and material usage, ultimately leading to reduced costs and weight for clients.
ADDITIVA SRL
Grant in 2017
ADDITIVA manufactures metal parts using the most advanced and performing Additive Manufacturing technologies, supporting the customer right from the design process.
ADDITIVA supports the customer from design to manufacturing, offering the following services: collaborative design (DFAM – Design For Additive Manufacturing), structural simulations (finite element analisys, topological analysis), reverse engineering, 3D model optimization, metal powders laser melting, heat treatment, machining, surface treatment, quality control and testing.
Vesta Srl is an innovative startup that bridges between past and present in the pellet stove market.
Tied to the Roman goddess Vesta, from which it takes its name - as an element of aggregation and conviviality, modernity and flexibility are some of the distinctive characteristics of this young company, which boasts a consolidated experience in the mechanical design sector.
Main company ambition, creating products for heating, in total respect for the environment, which are a perfect fusion between craftsmanship, technology and design: products that, inserted in the domestic environment, become the fulcrum, fireplace always alive, an element of aggregation and conviviality.
PeptiGelDesign
Grant in 2017
PeptiGelDesign Ltd. is a company based in Alderley Edge, United Kingdom, that specializes in the development and commercialization of self-assembling peptide-based hydrogels. These hydrogels are designed to create defined three-dimensional microenvironments for various cell culture applications within the life sciences sector. Additionally, the company offers cardiovascular medical devices, including a biocompatible and biodegradable cardiac patch aimed at providing mechanical support to the infarcted myocardium. PeptiGelDesign also provides design services and its products come in the form of ready-to-use, easy-to-handle hydrogels suitable for culture dishes, multi-well plates, and cell culture inserts, facilitating both two-dimensional and three-dimensional cell culture processes. The company was incorporated in 2013.
Ideable Solutions
Grant in 2017
Ideable Solutions specializes in digital transformation, offering a range of services including software development, UX/UI design, RFID technology implementation, and asset tracking. They leverage SaaS technology to enhance clients' operations and facilitate business growth.
Planet is solving complex human problems learning from forms, processes and (eco)systems in Nature.
Planet is a start-up founded by Alessandro Villa and Alessandro Bianciardi in 2013. Although different expertise and professional background, both of them are into biology, complex biology systems and bio-inspired technology and after they have concluded a specific educational programme (respectively Biomimicry Specialist Program and Biomimicry Professional Program) in Biomimicry Institute (San Francisco, USA), they decided to set up an entrepreneurial business with the main goal to apply and share that innovative discipline learnt in USA. Planet is ideed specialized in biologically inspired design for sustainable innovation
Planet is part of the international network linked to the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute. Planet can count on a world-wide network of professionals in different disciplines (biology, engineering, design, economy, business management, architecture, chemistry and more) and experienced in the Biomimicry Thinking framework.
Planet is also founder both of Biomimicry Italy and European Biomimicry Alliance
Innomaq 21 is specialized in the design and manufacture of innovative and customized industrial equipment for steel industries.
Custom Laboratory Products
Grant in 2017
Custom Laboratory Products designs and builds bespoke scientific equipment. We are a small partnership based in the Moray area. We have in-depth experience in the micromalting field both in the UK and extensively abroad. We undertake all aspects of the manufacture of the equipment, including circuit design and manufacture, metal fabrication and welding.
MacDue designs and produces a complete turnkey , integrated, innovative, and flexible lines for packaging paper products.
The company's history began more than 35 years ago with few resources and small projects, but with the goal, certainly achieved, to create a solid and cohesive company, internationally, that contributed to the economic-social development of the local area.
Since 1981 Macdue has been been working and producing value and today we are recognized as one of the world's leading players in the field of automatic packaging.
With approximately 6,800 machines installed worldwide and a team of experienced technicians, MacDue is able to provide its customers with a complete service ranging from consulting, to design, project management, production, installation up to service and after-sales assistance for packaging lines and machines, which integrate seamlessly with customer production cycles.
The company is present all over the world with a dense network of agents and distributors, a sales representative in North America also dedicated to after-sales service and a production subsidiary in India that produces and sells automatic machines for the local market.
AEDES Construction
Grant in 2017
AEDES is a construction company that innovates several patents to enable cheap, swift and high-quality construction of buildings.
In 1988 we created our first system for construction of multi-floor highly seismic-safe prefabricated buildings made with large panels for the US market. The construction elements (large panels for construction of walls and ceilings; beams and anchors), as well as connecting joints between them when assembling these buildings were innovative and patent protected. The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia granted us a patent named “Cold modelling steel profiles as basic elements of construction of self-bearing panels and basic interlocking joints in connections in load-bearing construction of a building”
Spirit Design
Grant in 2017
Spirit Design is a strategic design company headquartered in Vienna. Its team of 20 consultants and designers specialised in innovation and brands create sustainable solutions for customers in the mobility, IT, energy, industry and consumer sectors, offering a comprehensive range of services on three levels:
- Developing trend-setting visions in the form of clear innovation and brand strategies,
- Translating these visions into integrated product, service and brand developments through to market launch
- Management support during all innovation, brand and design processes.
This holistic design approach benefits more than Spirit Design’s customer base. At the heart of the work performed lies a meaningful value proposition for consumers, society and the environment.
FUZ Designs engages in creating products intended for electronic devices.
FŪZ Designs provides products such as EverDock and Noke. EverDock is a universal dock that keeps its users’ smartphones or tablets charged and gives it a home where they can always find it. Machined from a solid block of aircraft-grade aluminum, it enhances any home or office while keeping the devices charged. It also offers an online marketplace that the users can search for a wide range of products through the online catalog such as docks for Apple watches, felt cases, soft cases, and accessories.
FŪZ Designs is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2013 by Cameron Gibbs and David Gengler.
WATERDOG mobile
Grant in 2016
Waterdog is a software development company specializing in web and mobile solutions. With extensive experience collaborating with startups and multinational firms across various sectors, the company focuses on creating innovative products for a diverse clientele that includes clients from Portugal, the UK, the USA, Australia, and Brazil. Waterdog's expertise encompasses brand and interaction design, software project management, and both iOS and Android development, as well as front-end and back-end web development. The team is characterized by a culture of responsibility and honesty, applying creativity and accumulated knowledge to deliver effective solutions. Waterdog aims to establish itself as a leading provider of turnkey digital solutions in the industry.
Vijocar offer its more than 50 years of history and experience in the sector and a wide range of works related to the world of wood; from interior doors to stairs, wardrobes, custom furniture and decoration works, as well as personalized designs without forgetting our work in the hospitality, catering and services sector. Our main goal and concern is the satisfaction of our customers and therefore we bet on the best quality and the best service.
The company's experience gives them the added value to provide solutions to any need that its clients need. For this, Vijocar has a large staff of professionals at client's disposal to advise them and give life to their projects, whatever their type.
SAM YACHT is the product of over 20 years’ passion for sailing and was set up on the initiative of two brothers with many years of high precision carpentry and sailing experience behind them. The boatyard makes only ecological, innovative and surprisingly seaworthy boats equipped with intelligent solutions devised by sailors, and lets you develop your boat according to your own particular passions and requirements.
Its boats are built using the latest technology, such as composite materials, vacuum techniques and numerical control machines, yet we still exercise the precision and care involved in old-fashioned craftsmanship.
Every detail is meticulously checked and external suppliers are carefully chosen from the most reputable and up-to-date in their sector.
SAM YACHT is unique in its field in producing and rebuilding boats with innovative designs and solutions. From the waterlines, which guarantee safety and enjoyment when afloat, to aesthetic touches, we create boats of timeless beauty with a modern twist.
Swiftty is a software company based in Belgrade, Serbia, that offers a cloud-based file conversion platform. The product converts Adobe Photoshop documents into HTML and CSS, enabling faster translation of design files into web-ready code and supporting designers and developers in the web-creation workflow.
CoeLux is an innovative company specializing in advanced optical systems that utilize nanotechnology to replicate the natural light and visual characteristics of the sun and sky indoors. By employing LED technology and nanostructured materials, CoeLux's systems create the illusion of infinite space, allowing users to experience the effects of natural sunlight and atmospheric conditions regardless of their environment. This breakthrough technology has significant implications for indoor architecture, lighting design, and the real estate sector, enhancing the perception of vastness and brightness in enclosed spaces. CoeLux aims to transform how people interact with their surroundings by integrating the beauty of natural light into everyday indoor settings.
Archigroup is an exhibition planner based in Italy.
Didson is a creator of active noise canceling solutions allowing people to live without noise open windows. Located in Lyon and specialized in the manufacture and marketing of acoustic modules, SARL DIDSON aims to create intelligent and effective devices and solutions dedicated to active noise canceling for comfort of life and potentially sound reproduction.
DesignPro is a provider of precision automation and machine build services to a variety of industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, aviation, automotive, cosmetics and renewable energy.
Based in County Limerick, Ireland the company has developed a reputation as a creative and highly professional partner to some of the world’s largest multinationals. Providing a complete turnkey solution, their services include: problem analysis, design, prototyping, build, installation and maintenance.
Dymant is a French startup that collaborates with luxury craftsmen to design, produce, and sell limited edition objects. The company operates an exclusive online platform where members can access a curated selection of high-end products, including tote bags, passport holders, card holders, and notebooks, with prices ranging from $500 to tens of thousands of dollars. Membership to the platform is invitation-only, requiring prospective users to be invited by existing members, thus enhancing its exclusivity and appeal within the luxury market.
Cogo Bilance
Grant in 2016
Cogo Bilance specializes in the design of industrial weighing systems and in the production of precision electronic scales. Cogo Bilance is born from the factory located in Venice, where only a small foundry and a mechanical workshop worked.
Yodfat Engineers
Grant in 2016
Yodfat Engineers uses state-of-the-art technologies and practical design to assimilate projects with the environment. Using local possibilities we originate solutions that improve situations on a local to global scale. This is carried out in combination with traditional approaches and an efficient international network of dedicated experts.
Yodfat Engineers' services include technology scouting, technology integration and full engineering design of process, hydraulics, civil works, and electrical and computerized control systems. We also provide feasibility evaluations, detailed planning and manufacturing of R&D products, and project implementation management, in Israel and worldwide.
RDConcretes
Venture Round in 2016
RDConcretes is an engineering company that specializes in design and calculation of advanced concrete elements.
TPU deals with varied product development, whereby both the development of production equipment and / or related products are performed for or with our customers.
Performed mainly for companies with a need for development of new products with high level of innovation and the use of new technologies. TPU manages all phases of product development from concept creation, concept development, design and documentation to the production of functional models, testing and transfer to production. Project management is also a typical part of the service here. Production volume ranges from few to millions of units / year.
Performed mainly for larger, producing companies, where the typical project includes analysis, innovation, concept development and / or advanced technology. TPU performs projects from solving a current problem in ongoing production for the development, completion and implementation of new production equipment. Project management and management of subcontractors are an integral part of these types of TPU projects. Serial size of this type of equipment ranges from a single production machine up to 20-30 pieces.
Weco windows
Grant in 2016
WECO revolutionizes the tradition wood window with its sash of self-supporting glass, uninterrupted by any frame, in a design that combines elegance, energy-efficiency and innovation.
WECO opens the window to the views and the light. Developed by a team of Spanish architects, its frameless windows take full advantage of the space for greater transparency, while its high
technical performance ensures maximum comfort. The result is a design that stands out for its simplicity, quality and elegance, combining the warmth of wood and the contemporaneity of bare glass.
International design awards won by the windows of WECO.
Co Stamp is a manufacturing company of aluminum and magnesium die casting dies and plastic injection molds for the automotive and industrial applications. Its research and development department works with the aim of lengthening the life of the molds and improving the quality of the pieces produced.
The European Community has recognized Co.stamp as an important prize, with regard to the Horizon 2020 program, aimed at promoting the best development projects of the year.
Moving designs and manufactures professional seatings, including office chairs, executive chairs, and sofas.
All seats are 100% made in Moving, are designed and built completely within the company. The idea, the research, the project and then the choice of materials, the realization, the quality control. From the realization of the mold, to the final assembly of the seat and testing.
The idea, the research, the project. And then the choice of materials, construction, quality control. From the realization of the mold, to the final assembly of the seat and testing. Everything is done inside our factories, all guaranteed and signed by Moving.
This is combined with the design and style, aesthetics and elegance that make Italy famous throughout the world.
Demede Engineering & Research
Grant in 2016
Demede is an engineering and research company specialized in the design and manufacture of customized equipment and turnkey projects for R + D + i. Its team is an expert in the design, development and construction of test benches, prototypes, pilot plants and research facilities.
Testori Aero Supply
Venture Round in 2016
Testori Aero Supply guarantees a complete service to world-wide customers supplying different interior materials, design, testing, quality control, after sale support and POA/DOA complete certifications. The company provides their customers with high impact of the cabin interiors to passengers, with reliable, on-time flexible, high-quality and cost-effective services.
Ferdiam is a company dedicated to the development of innovative technologies and products through the use of the diamond. Spin-off the company Dellas S.p.a., leader for over 40 years in the diamond tools for cutting stone, has a high specific know-how in the use of raw materials and the aims mission is to transfer this knowledge in areas as alternatives to those of the company of origin.
The technological innovation pursued by Ferdiam reflected on many areas that are used both in the decorative world and in the automotive, respectively trying to make the most of the characteristics of brightness and resistance in the first and thermal conductivity and hardness in the latter.
Arima Software Design
Grant in 2015
Arima Software Design S.L.L., established in 2013 and located in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, specializes in software design and custom software development. The company offers a range of services, including the design, development, and enhancement of software architectures while ensuring adherence to architectural principles. Arima aims to deliver distinctive and innovative software solutions that add value to its clients' businesses. Additionally, the company provides consulting, research, training, and product development services to support clients in implementing effective design strategies.
F-Lab is an innovation center where engineers and designers work together with universities, companies, and experts on new technologies and new materials to explore and develop innovative solutions with impact on human health, nutrition, and wellness in the field of electro medical equipment and beverage dispensing systems.
EU Edge a digital product agency that develops software products from scratch or enhance existing solutions. It helps startups rapidly validate their fresh ideas with its technology and design skills. When the clients found the right direction EU Edge help them grow and keep on the top of their game.
The company based in Budapest, Hungary and work primarily with US-based clients, providing creative solutions and programming expertise to innovative, intensive technology projects.
Industrial Partners GmbH
Grant in 2015
Industrial Partners GmbH develops tailor-made, targeted solutions for our customers.
The company unites an interdisciplinary team of enthusiastic engineers and designers. It operates at three locations in Frankfurt am Main, Beerfelden im Odenwald and Tianjin, PR China. Its goal is: Everything from one source, without detours, we accompany your projects from the creative idea to the development of a design concept to production.
INGECID is a construction engineering company focused on innovation, quality, and customer service. It specializes in providing consulting services that encompass detailed design, purchasing, construction, and commissioning management. The company is renowned for its expertise in structural design and is actively involved in research and development projects, particularly in the fields of renewable energy and civil engineering. INGECID also offers services such as 4D planning and building information modeling, which aid clients in navigating complex engineering challenges. Additionally, the company is committed to the training of engineers and provides specialized technical training for large entities within the construction and renewable energy sectors. With a strong emphasis on developing innovative solutions, INGECID aims to set benchmarks in construction processes and engineering practices.
Except is an integral sustainability consultancy, research and design agency. It delivers concepts and strategies for resilient, just, and inspiring cities, companies, and governance.
Since 1999 Except brings together private and public partners and guide them towards systemic and fundamental improvement, where all stakeholders benefit. It applies innovative systemic analysis, develop road maps towards resilience, and execute solutions with inspiring design.
Except bridges gaps between sectors to accelerate the frontier of sustainability, and create concepts that are realistic and feasible.
Fripp Design and Research
Grant in 2015
Fripp Design and Research is a product design and research, and business development consultancy. It offers a range of design services, including research, concept development, CAD rendering, and prototyping.
Fripp Design and Research was co-founded by [Tom Fripp](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/tom-fripp) and [Steve Roberts](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/steve-roberts-2) in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Pnat uses the comprehension of plant patterns and behaviors to inspire innovative design concepts and products, from the small to the building scale.
Pontis Engineering
Grant in 2015
Pontis Engineering is an ambitious and independent international company, active in the rapidly growing industry of advanced composite products.
Pontis Engineering specializes in integrated engineering solutions for the development of large fiber reinforced composites, excelling in innovative power, cost-effectiveness, and quality. To this end, we supply a wide range of services covering the entire process from conceptual design to (serial) production and transportation.
Pontis Engineering adds value to its partners by leveraging on its extensive industry knowledge and network, highly expertised workforce, and international presence. Our services cover various growth markets for advanced composites, including the wind power, aerospace, civil and marine sector.
With over 20 years of experience in composites, our dedicated in-house design team and our worldwide network of engineers, materials suppliers, and knowledge institutes, we are your highly qualified partner in developing state of the art composite structures.
Alpha Progetti is a dynamic company that operates in the fields of instrumental mechanics with a high technological content and industrial automation.
It was founded in 1994 by the Verzeletti brothers, who since the late '70s have been designers at companies that manufacture machinery of primary importance. Alpha Progetti today has a team of 30 proficient and dynamic professionals, with significant experience, who every day commit themselves to achieve and maintain technological leadership, guarantee excellent service and face new challenges.
Since 2004, the focus of the activity has expanded from the design and development sector, traditional points of excellence, to the creation of virtual or really working prototypes and to the study of design.
Tecnologias DIM
Grant in 2015
Tecnologias DIM operates in the consulting and development of projects in R+D+I. It offer support for the most demanding customers, seeking to differentiate themselves on the basis of strategies based on innovation and interaction with the public.
Technologias Dim develop applications with the latest programming code to be compatible with the main mobile ecosystems: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 8.
The company has vertical solutions that bring value to any sector you need in design of product or production cost savings.
Solutions for sectors such as upholstery, fashion, hospitable, architecture and engineering.
Bergamo Tecnologie
Grant in 2015
Bergamo Tecnologie, company founded in January 1996 benefits from decades of experience of its founders and new ideas. Bergamo Tecnologie immediately stands out for competence, professionalism and high quality standards. The evolution within the company is fast and persistent, the society has been winning many important awards for doing prestigious commissions in Italy and abroad.
In 1997 the company builds her new headquarters by applying its knowledge of construction design and assembly techniques to the project. In 1998 the company proposed itself as a design company and global supplier of facades, windows and innovative and insulating components for the home and industry.A technical office with a modern computerized CAD design system and the competence of its technical department for installations in Italy and abroad. Our workers have a lot of experience in different countries, such as Italy, Russia, Germany, Poland, Africa, Arab countries
Wearable Technologies
Seed Round in 2015
Wetech is a dynamic company that thinks beyond conventions and puts the consumers at the heart of their designs to create inspiring experiences that combine fashion and technology.
They combine trendy designs, advanced hardware systems and smart software to develop new wearable products and innovative solutions that enhance customer value and improve brand awareness. Wetech creates new ways to use technology and integrate it in our everyday lives. Wetech develops products and solutions combining exceptional designs, fashion trends and advanced technologies.
Wetech provide mobile and wearable solutions to help extract real business value from new digital systems and to transform your business with state-of-the-art technologies. Their offering includes solutions for innovative payments, secure identification, smart notifications and efficient geolocation.
CORTIME
Seed Round in 2015
CORTIME democratizes parametric optimization through it's intuitive SOLIDWORKS add-in software.
By offering powerful optimization technology made easy to use and learn, CORTIME is set out on a mission to enable engineers to reap the benefit of automated design exploration.
CORTIME enables you to utilize your computer and software even more by automating design testing, generating data about your design - day and night - which wil save you time.
CORTIME provides the best interactive data analysis tools to gain an in depth insight to your design, which you wouldn never achieve without it.
This makes you a better engineer as you can now make better design decision much quicker.
CORTIME was founded in December 2012 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
LTG Elettronica
Grant in 2015
As advancements in technology have allowed man to continuosly redefine, innovation trough excellence is the baseline for our company. LTG has always based its vision on the search of quality by updating its lines in keeping with all that is the state-of-the-art in commercial and aerospace engineering. Company dedicates its creative and productive resources also to the parallel and complementary activities of component testing, qualification and reverse engineering. The development of a product is carried out both in-house and in cooperation with external experts. In our design work we pay particular attention to the customer’s (own) specifications and requirements: all to achieve the product excellence.
Lualdi S.p.A.
Venture Round in 2015
Lualdi is a historic company of Italian design in the field of interior doors, custom furniture and contract, managed by the fourth generation of the family. The industrial turning point began in the sixties thanks to the close symbiosis created with the architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni. Today the company collaborates with the most important architects in the world, has showrooms in Milan, New York and Miami, and its leadership is internationally recognized.
Inmold specializes in surface technology for plastics manufacturing – focusing on injection molding and extrusion coating. The company was founded in 2007 as a spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
They provide cutting edge solutions at any point along the value chain: design and manufacture of master structures with many types of functionality, tooling that transfers structures in injection moulding and polymer roll-to-roll, and rapid access to production of foil products. They provide full micro- and nano-characterization.
Founded in 2007, Artaic specializes in designing and fabricating custom tile work for commercial and residential markets. Utilizing computer-aided design software and robotic assembly systems, the company creates innovative mosaics for various industries such as hospitality, retail, and public art.
Arken operates in the manufacturing industry, focusing on the production of modular furniture for shops, accessories, display windows, furnishing elements and mannequins. It is constantly engaged in technological research and design, process and product innovation, quality improvement and cost reduction, in order to ensure a competitive price for our customers, which guarantees us the market leadership position.
Arken SpA, is a company that was founded in 1993 in Sora (Frosinone), from the dream of 4 Entrepreneurs who together created a long series of innovative products, born from the extraordinary inventive, productive and commercial capacity of the group.
Dupont Lightstone
Grant in 2014
Dupont LightStone specializes in innovative building materials that integrate light and concrete to create a versatile medium known as Lightstone. This technology utilizes fiber optics embedded within concrete to allow the transmission of natural daylight and live images onto various surfaces, including floors, walls, and facades. The result is a dynamic, visually striking material that can transform spaces into bright, shape-shifting sculptures. Lightstone serves multiple applications, enabling clients to display internal or external information, advertisements, and graphic light effects in diverse environments such as hotels, airports, shopping malls, and conference centers. By combining aesthetics with functionality, Dupont LightStone redefines traditional building materials and enhances the visual appeal of architectural spaces.
Wellness Spa
Grant in 2014
Wellness Spa Italy Company boasts over 30 years of Made in Italy experience in the design and production of "tailor-made" equipment for Spa and Wellness Centers, such as hammams, Turkish baths, saunas, whirlpools, thermal baths, swimming pools, fountains and emotional showers intended for Elite Wellness.
The ompany also operates in the Middle East basin promoting the exclusivity of the Made in Italy of the Wellness sector, thanks to the logistic organization and high professionalism by arranging a staff composed of professionals and collaborators in number necessary to design and realize any type and entity of Wellness Center.
Magillem Design Services
Seed Round in 2014
Magillem Design Services is a software service company that specializes in providing solutions for seamless integration across Specification, Design, and Documentation processes. The company's software connects all product-related information into a centralized, traceable hub, which is particularly beneficial for large corporations in industries such as semiconductors and embedded systems. By offering tools and services designed to reduce the global costs associated with complex projects, Magillem enables its clients to enhance their operational efficiency. The company's industry expertise is instrumental in helping customers implement new methodologies, leading to significant quality improvements in their projects. Magillem's focus is on empowering clients to leverage their own knowledge and expertise, thereby adding value to their businesses and enabling them to tackle their most challenging initiatives effectively.