The 6th edition of the Startup Competition of the Web Marketing Festival, the largest Festival on Digital and Social Innovation held at the Palacongressi di Rimini on 20, 21, and 22 June, has come to an end. This event represents an accelerator of the innovation process for the country, featuring Italy's largest Startup Competition with a jury composed of important realities of the innovation scene, venture capital funds, corporate ventures, accelerators, and incubators.
During the three-day Festival there was also the Startup Competition Young, the WMF initiative created to support entrepreneurial growth among young people aged 16 to 22.
The competition brought together numerous projects dedicated to themes such as legal issues, services for disabled people, tourism, services for elders, and sustainability, and gave teams the opportunity to present innovative projects with a high social impact and to receive prizes and awards from some of the investors and sector players present at the Festival, including I3P.
The Incubator of the Politecnico di Torino awarded prizes to Airtender and Medere, giving them access to a 3-month free equity incubation programme at the facility.
The start-ups
Here are the projects and who are the start-ups awarded by I3P at the 2019 Web Marketing Festival Startup Competition.
AIRTENDER is a suspension developed by Umbria Kinetics, a radically innovative product because it is the only system in the world able to increase vehicle comfort, performance and safety at the same time. Medere is an innovative start-up, founded in 2018 by three friends, offering innovative solutions in the field of medical devices. Enabling every person to get the best solution, with creativity and innovation, is the driving force behind the startup. Medere's mission is to create affordable and accessible custom-made medical devices and technologies to improve patients' quality of life. This is how POP - Personalised Orthopaedic Insoles was born, a project that bases its innovativeness on the synergy between data acquisition technologies, reconstruction from images and 3D printing.