Bios Hydrogel
Bios hydrogel is an agritech company that works according to a circular economy approach, develops applications for companies that pursue sustainable vertical farming and sustainable agriculture. Our products are all eco-friendly, compostable and able to improve soil fertility.
Collaborate with us today to save our tomorrow
The concept
Bios Hydrogel detains the patents of two innovative products, made of organic fibers, humus, clay, these applications degrade easily in the soil without leaving chemicals, toxic substances and above all act as soil improvers because releasing “strategic substances for his fertility and structure.
Products
Water retainer - Carrier - Fertilizer
Bios Hydrogel
Our hydrogel is designed to be easily degradable and biocompatible, is able to support seeds and seedlings at an early stage, acts in the soil for a few weeks and then disappears leaving a fertilized soil.
Protective - Support - Carrier
Cultivation Substrates
A fully compostable growth substrate for plants, fungi, microorganisms based on agricultural residues or paper/wood fibers.
An ecological and cheap alternative to the pot soil.
Innovation & Mission
A radical change is possible only through a long process of innovative steps; by offering our research and our compostable, bio-compatible, eco-friendly products, we aim to transform the today needs into a tomorrow with zero impact on our precious environment.
Tailored Agritech Applications For Companies:
- We can calibrate our products for your needs
- We can collaborate to realize new products based on our technology
Team
Giacomo Guerrini
CEO
R&D manager and sales
Carlo Scarpa
Co-founder
Legal affairs manager
Timeline
The Company has filed for a New Patent
The new patent describes an innovative way to join the fibers together and eventually add a hydrogel. This new technique allows to create micro structures that can incorporate seeds to make fabulous substrates for vertical farming, but also to help in the first phase of cultivation. Above all, they are natural structures without any petroleum-based polymers.
We win Invitalia Prize of MARZOTTO INNOVATION AWARDS
In 2020 annual Marzotto Innnovation Competition our company has got the special prize for Innovation in Agritech. See the interview to our founder
BioInItaly stops in Padova: BiosHydrogel wins it!
Padua, February 3, 2020 – BiosHydrogel is the winner of the Venetian stage of BioInItaly Investment
Forum & Intesa Sanpaolo StartUp Initiative the event organized by Assobiotec, Intesa Sanpaolo
Innovation Center and the Cluster Spring.
Start Cup Veneto 2019
BiosHydrogel wins third place at Start Cup Veneto; this is a competition between people who develop innovative business ideas, funded and implemented by the Universities of Verona, Padua, Ca ‘Foscari and IUAV of Venice, in collaboration with multiple institutional partners. Participants in 2019 edition were more than 100.
BiosHydrogel is born!
On 9 April 2019 BiosHydrogel was founded as a limited liability company, in the special category of innovative start-ups. This is a special type of Italian company which has certain benefits granted by the Italian legal system and which aim to favor development and innovation.
Bios Hydrogel wins Luca Russo startup 2018’s award
Luca Russo startup incubation award had the patronage of the University of Padua, the Order of Engineers of the province of Padua, the Padua College of Engineers, the Federation of the Veneto Engineers Order, the Municipality of Padua.
The award are services and spaces granted by Paradigma.city, an innovation incubator.
Cariparo foundation financed the InnoGel project
Our founder, Giacomo Guerrini, is the co-creator of the InnoGel project; such project aims at the synthesis and characterization of biodegradable hydrogels. The project was funded by the Cariparo Foundation with a check for € 300,000 to the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Padua.
Bios Hydrogel’s patent
Giacomo Guerrini invents a formulation of a biodegradable hydrogel and develops it in the laboratories of the Department of Chemical Sciences of the University of Padua. The invention was patented by the inventor together with other university professors.
