The week in Italian startups - Issue #110
The week in Italian startups - Issue #110
The Money
Newcleo raised €300m to continue working on its innovative nuclear reactors.
Meeters, a travel community startup, 🇮🇹raised €500k from CDP VC in addition to the €1.9m raised 6 months ago.
GrowishPay, a fintech startup, 🇮🇹raised €850k and announced the acquisition of School Mission.
G-Rent SpA invested an undisclosed amount in Smace, a proptech startup.
M&A
Chora Media acquired Will media for €5.2m. An FT article with more info on the deal (paywall).
Silver Lake acquired a controlling stake in Facile.it.
Nextalia and Bain Capital acquired Deltatre, a leading sports tech and data provider.
Accelerators!
Sella launched a program for Metaverse startups.
34BigThings, OGR, and Microsoft 🇮🇹launched the second edition of the Quickload program for gaming startups.
Reading this week
An 🇮🇹interview with Douglas Leone (Sequoia) about the Italian startup ecosystem.
A 🇮🇹post by Andrea Orlando on the current status of the Italian ecosystem.
Google 🇮🇹opened 2 Cloud Regions in Italy.
Fundraising tracker
Every week, I post a fundraising tracker based on published news.
Ending Notes
Every week, Giacomo Mollo and I comment on the latest news: subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and other podcast platforms.
Have a great week,
N.