The week in Italian startups - Issue #97

The Money

• Boom! Imagestudio 🇮🇹raised €6.6m in a round led by Vintage Capital.

• Turin-based Heqet Therapeutics raised £6.6m in a round led by Claris Ventures.

• Banca Valsabbina 🇮🇹acquired a 9% stake in Opstart, a crowdfunding platform.

• Elaisian, an agri-tech startup, 🇮🇹raised €800k from Fortitude Group Holding investment, Ulixes SGR, and Innova Venture.

• PerForms, a biotech startup, 🇮🇹raised an undisclosed amount from Utopia sis.

New funds

• Primo Ventures announced the first closing at €62m of Primo Digital, a seed-to-early-stage fund. ✌🏻

• IH1, the investment holding launched by Mamazen, 🇮🇹raised €1.65m

M&A

• Roomie, a flat-sharing startup, was acquired by Habyt.

• Gada was acquired by Palex Medical Group.

Reading this week

• The FoodTech 500 2021 is out.

• ESG is coming to venture capital: Vertis 🇮🇹appoints an ESG manager.

Fundraising tracker

Every week, I am posting a fundraising tracker based on the news I publish.

Recent job positions from XJobs

• Loud is looking for a Sviluppatore Frontend

• Kineton is looking for a Cybersecurity junior engineer

• Cubbit is looking for a DevOps Engineer

• Fit Prime is looking for a B2B Sales Account

• Treatwell is looking for a Sales Manager

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.

Ending Notes

Join the conversation between Giacomo Mollo and myself commenting on the latest news, every Monday at 7:00 pm CET (follow us on Twitter for a live reminder and the link: Nico / Jack). If you miss the live discussion, you can subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and other podcast platforms.

Have a great week,

N.