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.