The Money

• Newcleo raised €300m to continue working on its innovative nuclear reactors.

• Serenis, a mental wellness startup, raised €2.6m.

• 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 step-by-step guide to raise a Series A 💯

• 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

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Have a great week,

N.