The week in Italian startups - Issue #101

The Money

• Bizaway, a corporate travel startup, raised €10m in a Series A led by Azimut Digitech, Gellify, and Exor Seeds.

• Hydraink, an "interactive cosmetics" startup, 🇮🇹raised €5m in a round led by CDP Venture Capital.

• Exept, a bike-tech startup, raised €500k from CDP Venture Capital.

• Novac, a startup developing solid-state supercapacitors, raised €412k from Eureka! and CDP VC.

• Holidoit, a travel experiences startup, 🇮🇹raised €400k from a syndicate of business angels.

M&A

• Shopfully announced the acquisition of Tiendeo, a Spanish drive-to-store startup.

• Talent Garden 🇮🇹acquired a stake in Creative Harbor, a co-learning startup.

• Ambienta-backed Namirial acquired Bit4ID, an authentication and digital signature company.

Reading this week

• A very thorough primer on debt financing for startups by A16z.

Fundraising tracker

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

Ending Notes

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Have a great week,

N.