(Dec. 20) – The Italian start-ups winners of the third edition of the competition “La tua idea per il Paese (Your idea for your Country)”, promoted by ItaliaCamp, will participate in the mission “USACamp”, which will star on February 26th with the very first barcamp about the history of Wall Street. The start-ups will be protagonist at the trading floor and presented to major investors, venture capitalists anche American business angels. Tied to the communication sector is Athonet, a start-up which develops mobile networks in critical environments. Build in 2004 from a team of engineers, it is renowned for the experience gained during the earthquake in Emilia-Romagna. For its commitment in that natural disaster, it has earned a Medal from the President Giorgio Napolitano. In the healthcare sector, there is Exim (Exoskeleton in Motion), a team of engineers from Padua who developed an exoskeleton, a wearable low cost robot for rehabilitation of disabled people, that can be used also in domestic environment to restore the autonomy of patients with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, SLA or Parkinson’s disease. The last start-up is ClouDesire, a solution from the Polytechnic University of Milan and the Normal School of Pisa to simplify and minimize efforts for software vendors to start selling their applications in a their own branded store or in a global marketplace, using a cloud model. (red)
