Zenit is a spin-off of CNR (National Research Council of Italy) founded to produce transparent and innovative ceramic materials for optical applications and laser sources.
The project is entering a new phase of industrialization characterized by the need to support further investment costs, essential to produce prototype components and for the related commercial strategy.
The main key elements to ensure the success of this project are the capability to build and maintain solid relationships with potential contacts and to acquire new customers, offering new specific solutions and ensuring at the same time the best technical support.
Furthermore, the research and development activity carried out and enhanced by the start-up obviously represents another fundamental aspect to offer new solutions to the market.
The funding has been assigned to this project to promote new strategic partnerships with stakeholders able to facilitate its penetration into the market. The planned actions are aimed at achieving a scale-up of products with different geometric complexities in response to the requests identified by the market.
The project aims to improve and finalize the production process to produce components ready for the market launch and, at the same time, to create a solid commercial network capable of guiding the company in an effective business phase. Project code ID:   44347,Prot:  PG/2024/960264 CUP:   E27H24001240007E27H24001240007 PROJECT CO-FOUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THROUGH THE EMILIA-ROMAGNA REGION POR-FESR 2021/2027 – Azione 1.1.5 – Bando per il sostegno allo sviluppo delle start up innovative (DGR n. 1915/2022 modificata con DGR n. 2288/2022)

PROJECT #2

Laser systems

Smart&Start Italia is a special initiative promoted and managed by INVITALIA, a public body managed by the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy, whose main purpose is to support the creation and growth of innovative startups that demonstrate a significant level of technological expertise.
ZENIT’s startup activity has been recognized as worthy of funding under the Smart&Start program, which provides a contribution to support various initial costs. Thanks to the support of Smart&Start, Zenit will be able to enhance its marketing actions and the acquisition of laboratory equipment. In addition, this government program helps small emerging companies to select and involve highly qualified experts through long-term contracts that also favour research and development activities. ZENIT, together with its partners, is committed to improving its innovative 3D printing process, during which advanced materials (YAG) are used to obtain polycrystalline components with special shapes. This process was developed by the founders of Zenit (Laura Esposito, Jan Hostasa, Andreana Piancastelli, Valentini Biasini) and patented PCT/EP2021/057169 on 03/22/2021 and certainly represents one of the assets of the company whose acquisition is made possible by Smart&Start.

Project code
ZENIT Project / Smart&Start Italia DM 24 settembre 2014 G.U. n. 264 del 13 novembre 2014 e ss.mm.ii. domanda n. SSI0005081 – CUP C46I24000900008/COR 23037473

PROJECT #1

The Zenit Smart Polycrystals laboratory