The week in Italian startups - Issue #120

The Money

• Connected-Stories, an ad-tech startup, 🇮🇹raised €2m from Blacksheep.

• Aptus, Flowbe, and Cents 🇮🇹raised €500k from CDP VC each as a follow-on investment from the Fin+Tech acceleration program.

• BPER Banca and CDP VC (through the Boost Innovation fund) 🇮🇹announced Gility, a training platform for SMEs. CDP invested €12.4m in the joint venture.

M&A

• Aulab, an edtech startup, 🇮🇹sold 60% of its capital to Gruppo Multiversity.

Reading this week

• Neva SGR officially announced its 250m flagship fund.

• Vincenzo Elifani on his experience starting a probono incubator.

• Nexi is collaborating with the BCE on designing the "digital euro".

• The deck Adobe used to explain its Figma acquisition.

Fundraising tracker

Every week, I update my fundraising tracker based on the news I publish. 

Ending Notes

Giacomo Mollo and I comment on the latest news every week: subscribe to our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, and other podcast platforms to get additional insights on what is happening in the Italian ecosystem.

Have a great week,

N.