The week in Italian startups - Issue #67
The Money
Walliance, a real estate crowd investing portal, 🇮🇹raised €4m from two financial investors from the Trentino region.
Vedrai, an applied-AI startup developing solutions for SMEs, 🇮🇹announced a €5m investment round by a syndicate of angel investors (including entrepreneurs, football players, TV anchormen, etc..).
Develhope, a developer education platform from the South of Italy, 🇮🇹raised €2m in a round led by CDP Venture Capital.
Freedome, an outdoor experiences startup, 🇮🇹raised €600k in a round led by SocialFare Seed.
Gamindo, a social impact game developer, 🇮🇹raised €450k from a syndicate of angels.
CVC fund 8a+ Real Innovation 🇮🇹led a €6m investment round in digital communication startup Webidoo.
Workfam, a Dubai-based employee engagement startup, raised an undisclosed round from Gellify and Azimut Digitech fund.
Yobs Technologies, a US-based video talent assessment startup incubated in I3P, announced a €2m seed round.
Liquidity events
Bipi, a Madrid-based used cars subscription service, was acquired by Renault. Italian VC P101 had invested €6m back in march in the startup.
Specchiasol 🇮🇹acquired biotech startup Wellmicro. Price undisclosed.
Dottori.it 🇮🇹acquired a majority stake in Appocrate, a medical booking platform. Price undisclosed.
New funds
Prana Ventures 🇮🇹announced the first closing of its €50m seed-stage fund. 🥳
Video interview of the week
This week I highly suggest watching this video interview with Carlo Gualandri, co-founder of Soldo. The interview is from 2018.
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: Switcho is looking for a content marketing manager and a performance marketing 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.