The week in Italian startups - Issue #104

The Money

• Nanophoria, a Milan-based biotech startup, raised €3.5m from Sofinnova Partners

• Flyted, an infrastructure monitoring startup, 🇮🇹raised €1m from CDP Fondo Rilancio.

• D4RE, a real estate startup, 🇮🇹raised €300k from SRI Group Global Limited.

M&A

• Nexi acquired German company Orderbird for $140-150m.

• Colvin 🇮🇹acquired Bloovery💐. LVenture Group, the listed company running the Luiss Enlabs accelerator program where Bloovery graduated recently, announced a 2x return on its investment.

• Yapily, a UK fintech with an ITA heart, acquired FinAPI, a German open banking platform.

• Alira Health acquired RedCrow, a crowdfunding platform in the healthcare sector.

Strategic partnerships

• Sella SGR, an asset management company, 🇮🇹announced the integration of MDOTM's AI into its asset allocation processes.

New public funds from the Italian government

• Two new funds that were included in the PNRR (the Italian national recovery plan) have been officially approved: the 🇮🇹digital transition fund (a €300m direct, indirect & co-investment fund), and the 🇮🇹green transition fund (a €250m fund).

A new accelerator from CDP

• CDP VC, in partnership with Healthware Group and Accelerace, 🇮🇹launched a new accelerator dedicated to digital health startups, VITA. The program has a €6.25m initial budget to support participating startups.

Reading this week

• Italian Angels for Growth, one of Italy's primary business angels associations, 🇮🇹published its 2021 IAG index.

• Why a 4-5x return on an investment is not "Good Enough" for Earlier-Stage VCs.

Fundraising tracker

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

Recent job positions from XJobs

• Moneyfarm is looking for a Product Manager

• Qonto is looking for a Partnership Apprentice

• Qi4M is looking for a Data Manager Engineer

• Satispay is looking for a Regulatory Compliance Analyst Auditor

• Yolo is looking for a Digital Analytics Consultant

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

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Have a great week,

N.