The phase in which the technological and business validation process will be completed begins
30th November 2020 – The Call for Ideas promoted byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and Marzotto Venture Accelerator, aimed at academic research spin-offs and innovative startups, enters the pre-acceleration phase. There Covid-19 Challenge, born for acoping with the global emergency of the Coronavirus through ideas and projects with a high technological content in the health, economic and social fields, it has also seen the support of corporate partners such as Enel, Cisco, FSTechnology, Invitalia, Tim and Unicredit.
Out of a total of over 15 projects collected, 500 selected start-ups will now have access to the Preliminary acceleration program, the pre-acceleration phase in which the technology and business validation process will be completed through pilot projects developed at the Corporates of the Marzotto Venture Accelerator ecosystem. Marzotto put a sum of 5 million euros is available for the development of suitable projectsi. The finalist projects embrace the most diverse fields: from tracking platforms to monitoring systems and telemedicine, from diagnostic and treatment technologies and systems to platforms and apps for economic activities, up to e-commerce and logistics.
The list of selected start-ups includes:
- Brain Innovations, an integrated solution that addresses the needs of patients with Parkinson's, through devices for diagnosis, monitoring and therapy administration.
- Brochesia, with B Med, has created a software solution designed around the specific needs of health care.
- Phygiworkwith the project "Rome circular living» has instead defined a platform for the integrated use of technological infrastructures, tools and applications that follow a "smart circular city" approach.
- Exo Lab Italy aims to position the company as a leader in the production of exosomes and exosome-based products derived from organic, Italian fruit and vegetables.
- aWhere, an app that has as its concept a conscious and intelligent management system of the epidemic emergency in the workplace represented by a digital platform.
- Wecare instead it is a platform with a medical kit supplied to each individual citizen/patient or family unit combined with a collector that filters the information from bio-medical sensors.
- Adaptive Security Appliances is an application platform which, starting from existing libraries or creating new ones, creates the "digital twin" of an IT/OT infrastructure, in order to improve the current prevention, detection and response systems to cyber attacks.
- Virus Safety & Lives Connected in a Smart World is a monitoring and containment system created by Toobiz, a company that already develops IoT solutions.
- ButterfLife, an algorithm-based cloud-based device and software for self-assessment of 5 vital signs.
- Look AI with the iGuard project it aims to analyze large amounts of data collected through videos / images, cameras equipped with neural networks, verifying gatherings, compliance with safety standards, distance.
- Askdata focuses on the possibility of using platforms and algorithms to offer telemedicine services.
- Hospital Proximity Mobility provides for the activation of self-driving systems for the transport of people and goods with e-shuttles.
- HeadApp/Eye4Care is a platform that enables real-time audio/video connections between a healthcare management unit and personnel in direct contact with patients.
- More simple is a web-based telemedicine platform that brings together all stakeholders, tracks movements, provides data and statistics based on algorithms.
- Here we are (Health remote monitoring system) is a "smart shirt" equipped with sensors for measuring vital parameters, which helps reduce hospitalization times by promoting home monitoring.
