TWIS #161

A boring week in Italian startups: Taylora raised a small round and AATEch went public in a micro IPO. Lots of articles worth reading though!

Hello,

Welcome back to The Week in Italian Startups. This is Niccolò from Primo Ventures: every week, I publish my curated list of the latest news from the Italian startup ecosystem.

The Money

• Taylora, a knowledge-sharing startup, 🇮🇹raised €150k from SmeUp and FuturEd.

IPOs

• AATech 🇮🇹went public on Euronext Growth, raising €1.6m and with a market cap of €4.7m.

Reading this week

• IPOs on the Euronext exchanges 🇮🇹are down 45% in H1 2023 vs H1 2022 regarding capital raised (1.815b vs 3.297b). More data on global IPO markets from EY here.

• The European Commission published the European Innovation Scoreboard.

  

  “Moderate” & “Emerging” are the new “laggards” - credit to Michael Jackson

• An 🇮🇹interview with Alessio Beverina.

• Velasca expects to reach €25m in revenues.

• The ascendancy of European tech, by Creandum.

• 🇮🇹Ripensare l’ecommerce con una multipiattaforma - from HBR Italia.

• 🇮🇹A report on the biotech market in Italy, by EY and Assobiotech.

Fundraising Tracker

Ending Notes

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

Have a great week,

N.