The week in Italian startups - Issue #65

The Money

• Erbert, a high-quality fresh food startup, 🇮🇹raised €5m in a round led by Oltre Venture.

• Reviva, a prop-tech startup that “peps up” foreclosure auctions, 🇮🇹 raised €300k in an angel round. This investment follows a similar one back in March.

• Gellify and Azimut Digitech Fund 🇮🇹invested an undisclosed amount in Rebo, a "smart water bottle" startup.

• UK-based Superfluid, a programmable cashflows startup, raised $9m from a syndicate of crypto investors led by Multicoin Capital.

Liquidity events

• Banca Valsabbina 🇮🇹acquired 8.3% of fintech startup Borsa Del Credito, in a secondary transaction. This is the second operation announced by the bank after the one in May involving Cardo AI. Amount undisclosed.

• Video communication startup Bandyer was acquired by Kaleyra. Price undisclosed.

• Satispay 🇮🇹 acquired AdvisorEat, a welfare startup in the restaurant sector. Price undisclosed.

• CloudCare 🇮🇹 acquired SpinUp, a digital agency. Price undisclosed.

• Alpha Test acquired edtech startup Boolean Careers. Price undisclosed.

• Wireless logic acquired Milan-based Things Mobile. Price undisclosed.

• Stevanato Group SpA, a provider of drug containment, drug delivery, and diagnostic solutions, went public on the NYSE raising $672m.

Tannico

Campari and Moet Hennessy entered into a joint venture to launch a pan-European wine&spirits digital platform. Campari contributed its participation in Tannico into the JV, valuing its 49% stake €25.6m.

CDP Venture Capital

• The Boost innovation fund teamed up with Generali Welion to launch Convivit, a startup that will develop a new housing model for senior people.

• Italian edutech startups receive another boost: CDP launched the FuturED acceleration program, in partnership with H-Farm and other industrial partners, with up to €3m in available capital for selected startups.

Jobs in Italian startups

• You can explore 🔍 open positions here. Feel free to share the link with your contacts.

• You are welcome to add new open positions using this form 📥 . Or, forward the link to your CEO or HR person - the more open positions, the more relevant the list, the more it will travel across the web, the more candidates will see it. Thank you! 🙏🏻

• New this week: Almacube is looking for a startup program manager.

Ending Notes

See you on Clubhouse to discuss last week's news (every Monday at 6:30 pm CEST). In case you miss the episode, you can subscribe to the podcast on Spotify.

Have a great week,

N.