Alperia Startup Factory #4
Started by you.
Accelerated with green energy.

As South Tyrol green energy pioneer, we create value by enabling exceptional people to create the defining projects of tomorrow. A challenge, not an acceleration program, that allows you to unleash your potential and that of your idea. Financed PoC is at stake!

Take 15 minutes to apply to the Startup Factory and revolutionize the energy industry with us!

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From the first edition, together, we provide an unrivalled ecosystem and expertise to support you in developing successful ideas.

With Startups, SMEs, Intrapreneurs, talents and universities we will develop breakthrough solutions for the energy industry and beyond.

Through Alperia’s know-how, resources and network every Startup Factory challenger will have the possibility to grow his/her business.

The use of renewable energy sources and new systems for more efficient energy are increasing more and more.
That’s why, together, we can play a key, leading role in this development by encouraging and enabling innovation in various fields.

The project

A shaping growth experience

Alperia Startup Factory is open to innovative ideas and startups providing solutions in pre-defined macro thematic areas. Together with “Libera Università di Bolzano”, we will carefully screen the best ones for developing a collaboration project with our people (PoC).

In past editions, the call has collected hundreds of subscriptions from Italian and foreign startups, giving life to a work path aimed at providing the know-how for the development of the best ideas and meeting the innovators in a common space of cooperation.

Search fields

We identified five search fields requiring innovative solution through open innovation.

  • Hybrid Customer Engagement

    Hybrid Customer Engagement

    One of our goal is to improve relationship with our customers.
    That’s why we are looking for innovative solutions that enable customer engagement through services, platforms and interpretation models.

     

    • Real-time customer data reporting
    • Data driven customer success management
    • Gamification solutions to improve customer engagement
    • Artificial intelligence to improve customer engagement
  • Smart region

    Smart region

    Another goal is to improve value on the ecosystem we operate, from the inside.
    Smart region resumes the need to find use cases that enable value-added services for smart mobility and smart home.

     

    Smart mobility

    • Innovative solutions to ease up recharging throughout the city
    • Solutions to entertain the customer during the charging time
    • New ideas to foster the transition to electric vehicles

     

    Smart Home products

    • New ideas/products to map residential and commercial energy consumption
    • New tools to engage people on more sustainable lifestyles
    • Innovative solutions to ensure safety of elder people at home
    • Solutions enabling remote management of people's homes
  • Energy communities

    Energy communities

    Recent regulations facilitate the creation of residential energy communities.
    We are already positioned in the market with “Alperia Myhome” product suite.
    It’s now time to expand our offering with innovative and disruptive solutions.

    • Disruptive hardware to improve Alperia MyHome plant performance
    • Disruptive software and algorithms to enhance Alperia MyHome system effectiveness (e.g. real time and active monitoring solutions, decision-making support solutions, defect recognition alerts)
    • Storage solutions (e.g. batteries) with improved electrical safety, reduced overheating and sparks risk
  • CO2 Quotas

    CO2 Quotas

    Nowadays regulations about CO2 quotas management are complex and economically expensive. That’s why we are looking for innovative solutions to absorb, reduce, reutilize and exchange CO2 quotas.

     

    • New materials/solutions to absorb CO2 from the environment
    • New ways to facilitate production of green energy impacting internal operations and costs
    • Methodologies to easily exchange CO2 quotas
    • New processes to transform CO2 into new materials/energy to reutilize for other activities (e.g. Transform CO2 in fuel or materials for chemical usage)
    • Software solutions for CO2 assessment and tracking (eg. LCA)
  • Corporate well-being

    Corporate well-being

    Employees welfare is a high-priority for Alperia. That’s way we are looking for innovative, technological solutions to improve corporate well-being.

     

    • Structured and digitalized feedback loops solutions
    • Career management solutions
    • Performance and health coach solutions
    • Gamification of onboarding and corporate training activities enabled by VR and AR technologies

     

    Diversity and inclusion are two fundamental pillars in Alperia’s culture; hence they must be considered focal points of applicants’ propositions.

Benefits

Startup

Grow your business with us and our network, get access to resources and markets, exchange ideas, and discuss potential long-term cooperations.

What are you waiting for?

Join the Alperia Startup Factory #4, together, we will get further than you thought possible.

SMEs

Bring your innovative solutions or technologies that fit the search fields to a new level.

What are you waiting for?

Join the Alperia Startup Factory #4, together, we will get further than you thought possible.

Intrapreneurs

Act as an entrepreneur within your Company, bring to life your innovative ideas, turn them into projects and solutions for Alperia.

What are you waiting for?

Join the Alperia Startup Factory #4, together, we will get further than you thought possible.

Talents

Boost your R&D efforts on groundbreaking topics and empower technology transfer opportunities with Alperia.

What are you waiting for?

Join the Alperia Startup Factory #4, together, we will get further than you thought possible.

Roadmap

Startup Factory milestones

Make a note of these dates and find out our project process.

Due to the large turnout, the application deadline has been extended to 12/12, 23:59 GMT+1 hour, don’t miss it!

08/11

Open Call launch

10/12

Application deadline extended to 12/12

22/12

Preselection
deadline

19/01

Innovation
Camp

18/02

Kickoff PoC

09/06

PoC ending & final Demo Day 

Insight from past editions

This will be the fourth edition of the Alperia Startup Factory, a great success built with the help of exceptional people from Italy and abroad.

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STARTUP WINNERS INCLUDING 2 ALPERIA'S INTRAPRENEURS

People from Alperia Startup Factory

Shape the future with green energy.

Together, we can remove traditional barriers to building a company with free access to the technology, coaching, and support you need to hit your next milestone.

Join now the Alperia Startup Factory #4, together, we will get further than you thought possible.

FAQ

The Innovation Camp will be held remotely the 19th and the 20th of January 2022. However, we are constantly re-evaluating the situation. In case of any changes, we will contact you in advance with all the essential information.

Yes, in case on-site events will be planned, reasonable travel expenses (transportation to and from Bolzano, accommodation for non-residents) will be reimbursed following Alperia’s travel expenses rules (train, flight economy, taxi/rental car/own car if necessary).

Workshop input, documentation, and pitches in English please.

Mentioned events are planned to be held remotely, however we are constantly re-evaluating the situation so if travel will be allowed you might be asked to participate on-site. Depending on the team, we also plan 2-3 on-site meetings during the Acceleration (Proof-of-Concept) phase. If traveling won’t be possible due COVID-19, we will facilitate workshops and events remotely.

No. We are equally interested in Startups working on technologies, solutions or services that could be used for the energy industry but have not yet provided an application in this field.

An Intrapreneur is a person who acts like an entrepreneur while working in a (large) organization. Each Alperia employee can become an Intrapreneur within the Startup Factory, by applying for the program with an idea he/she wants to develop together with other colleagues. Often time and focus lack for such ideas to be developed within a company due to busy-ness and b.a.u. activities. The Startup Factory offers then a great chance to do this within a structured path and through the collaboration of the whole company.

Regarding the process and the possibilities of getting selected for the acceleration phase, there aren’t any. All applicants are getting evaluated and selected using the same parameters (evaluation criteria, timeline, meeting dates, …).

Click “Join the Factory” button and fill-out the application form. You will be asked to provide with the core information about your startup, idea, business (it takes approximately 30 minutes). If we require further information, we will contact you for a personal interview.

Admission deadline is 10th of December 2021, 23:59 GMT+1.

Successful candidates will then be invited to the Innovation Camp. The selected Startups / ideas will pitch in front of Alpesia’s top management and subject matter experts.
Successful teams will be then given the chance to access the Acceleration phase to develop a POC together with Alperia’s field experts.

The call is open until the 10th of December 2021, 23:59 GMT+1, and all applications will be reviewed during the next weeks.

After an objective rating of all applications, you will get the notification in case you are among the top selected startups who are invited to present their ideas at the Innovation camp. Please check also your spam inbox for any updates.

In case you are among the top selected startups who are admitted to the Innovatino Camp session by the mid, we will inform you by December 2021.

It’s a 2-days workshop where startups, Alperia Intrapreneurs, experts and top management from Alperia will meet to:

  • Match between ideas and startup solutions with Alperia needs and assets
  • Identify collaboration opportunities between startups and Alperia
  • Identify possible collaboration issues

Participants will be asked to pitch their ideas/solutions and collaboration projects to a jury which will decide those who will get access to Acceleration phase.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions the Innovation Camp will be held remotely. However, we are constantly re-evaluating the situation. In case of any changes, we will contact you in advance with all the essential information.

Due to COVID -19 restriction, the Innovation camp will be held remotely. However, we are constantly re-evaluating the situation. In case of any changes, we will contact you in advance with all the essential information.

A jury consisting of Alperia CEO and members of the top management, together with external subject matter experts.

During the POC phase the goal is to validate main solution hypotheses, run pilots and field trials, develop a business case.

You don’t have to be present the whole time in Bolzano and can work remotely on the project. However, there will be several workshops during these four months where you might be required to travel to Bolzano.

Budget for testing, field trials and prototyping foreseen (amount depending on project scope, subject to negotiations). Travel costs (if any) subsidized.

The Call for startup application window will close the 10th of December 2021., 23:59 GMT+1.

We appreciate early applicants (more time and focus for review), concise and clear applications, and startups that fit with the Search fields. Good luck!

The Innovation Camp will be held remotely the 19th and the 20th of January 2022. However, we are constantly re-evaluating the situation. In case of any changes, we will contact you in advance with all the essential information.

Yes, in case on-site events will be planned, reasonable travel expenses (transportation to and from Bolzano, accommodation for non-residents) will be reimbursed following Alperia’s travel expenses rules (train, flight economy, taxi/rental car/own car if necessary).

Workshop input, documentation, and pitches in English please.

Mentioned events are planned to be held remotely, however we are constantly re-evaluating the situation so if travel will be allowed you might be asked to participate on-site. Depending on the team, we also plan 2-3 on-site meetings during the Acceleration (Proof-of-Concept) phase. If traveling won’t be possible due COVID-19, we will facilitate workshops and events remotely.

No. We are equally interested in Startups working on technologies, solutions or services that could be used for the energy industry but have not yet provided an application in this field.

An Intrapreneur is a person who acts like an entrepreneur while working in a (large) organization. Each Alperia employee can become an Intrapreneur within the Startup Factory, by applying for the program with an idea he/she wants to develop together with other colleagues. Often time and focus lack for such ideas to be developed within a company due to busy-ness and b.a.u. activities. The Startup Factory offers then a great chance to do this within a structured path and through the collaboration of the whole company.

Regarding the process and the possibilities of getting selected for the acceleration phase, there aren’t any. All applicants are getting evaluated and selected using the same parameters (evaluation criteria, timeline, meeting dates, …).

Click “Join the Factory” button and fill-out the application form. You will be asked to provide with the core information about your startup, idea, business (it takes approximately 30 minutes). If we require further information, we will contact you for a personal interview.

Admission deadline is 10th of December 2021, 23:59 GMT+1.

Successful candidates will then be invited to the Innovation Camp. The selected Startups / ideas will pitch in front of Alpesia’s top management and subject matter experts.
Successful teams will be then given the chance to access the Acceleration phase to develop a POC together with Alperia’s field experts.

The call is open until the 10th of December 2021, 23:59 GMT+1, and all applications will be reviewed during the next weeks.

After an objective rating of all applications, you will get the notification in case you are among the top selected startups who are invited to present their ideas at the Innovation camp. Please check also your spam inbox for any updates.

In case you are among the top selected startups who are admitted to the Innovatino Camp session by the mid, we will inform you by December 2021.

It’s a 2-days workshop where startups, Alperia Intrapreneurs, experts and top management from Alperia will meet to:

  • Match between ideas and startup solutions with Alperia needs and assets
  • Identify collaboration opportunities between startups and Alperia
  • Identify possible collaboration issues

Participants will be asked to pitch their ideas/solutions and collaboration projects to a jury which will decide those who will get access to Acceleration phase.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions the Innovation Camp will be held remotely. However, we are constantly re-evaluating the situation. In case of any changes, we will contact you in advance with all the essential information.

Due to COVID -19 restriction, the Innovation camp will be held remotely. However, we are constantly re-evaluating the situation. In case of any changes, we will contact you in advance with all the essential information.

A jury consisting of Alperia CEO and members of the top management, together with external subject matter experts.

During the POC phase the goal is to validate main solution hypotheses, run pilots and field trials, develop a business case.

You don’t have to be present the whole time in Bolzano and can work remotely on the project. However, there will be several workshops during these four months where you might be required to travel to Bolzano.

Budget for testing, field trials and prototyping foreseen (amount depending on project scope, subject to negotiations). Travel costs (if any) subsidized.

The Call for startup application window will close the 10th of December 2021., 23:59 GMT+1.

We appreciate early applicants (more time and focus for review), concise and clear applications, and startups that fit with the Search fields. Good luck!

Who we are

At Alperia, we want to mold the energy of the future in order to achieve an active contribution to the mapping out of the future of Smart Regions. It is our aim to be a leading force in the provision of energy services and to foster an intelligent, digital-based energy future for our customers.
  • More than 340.000 customers
  • 1,4 billion € revenue in 2020
  • More than 1,000 employees
  • 8,730 km of energy grids
  • South Tyrol produces a surplus of renewable energy and has one of the highest densities of charging stations in Central Europe

Contact us

Francesco Campaner

Project Manager

Email: alperiastartupfactory2021@gmail.com
Tel: +39 3420674407

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