The Week in Italian Startups

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The week in Italian startups - Issue #73

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The week in Italian startups - Issue #73

Niccolò Sanarico
Sep 27, 2021
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The week in Italian startups - Issue #73

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The Money

  • Treedom, a remote tree-planting startup, raised €10m in a syndicated round participated by Exor, Chiellini (the football player), Nico Roseberg, and various angels.

  • Exein, a cybersecurity startup, raised €6m in a round led by Future Industry Ventures and eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners.

  • TrueLayer, the UK-based open banking API platform, raised $130m at a $1Bn+ valuation in a round led by Tiger Global and participated by Stripe. Pietro Bezza, the first VC investing in the company back in 2016, published a "lessons learned" post to recap his experience with the startup.

  • Home cooks network Le Cesarine 🇮🇹raised €1.1m from Finalca and CDP Venture Capital.

  • Gellify invested an undisclosed amount in Athics, a conversational AI startup.

Italian Tech Week

Last week the long-awaited Italian Tech Week took place, with Elon Musk as a special guest (unfortunately, not in person as it was originally advertised). In case you want to take a look, the videos from the event can be watched here.

A selection of positions published last week on XJobs

  • KPI6 is looking for a Research Analyst

  • Contents.com is looking for a Chief Marketing Officer

  • Moneyfarm is looking for an HR Intern

  • Mygrants is looking for a Data Scientist

  • Nest Italy is looking for an Executive Assistant

About XJobs:

  • The XJobs platform is a free portal listing open job positions from the Italian startup ecosystem, managed by CDP Venture Capital. If you desire, you can apply for free and have your job positions posted on the platform by following this link.

Tweet of the week

I could not resist.🤖

Twitter avatar for @imaginmatrix
Morgan Danielle @imaginmatrix
My dad made a “meme” and asked me to spread it as far as I can so here you go https://t.co/4MS3qnqSvN
Image
8:43 PM ∙ Jan 18, 2023

Ending Notes

Join the Clubhouse conversation between Giacomo Mollo and myself, commenting on the latest news every Monday at 6:30 pm CEST. In case you miss the live discussion, you can subscribe to the podcast on Spotify (and other podcast platforms).

Have a great week!

N.

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