Hello,
Welcome back to The Week in Italian Startups. This is Niccolò from Primo Capital: every week, I publish my curated list of the latest news from the Italian startup ecosystem.
The Money 💰
Medicud, a medtech startup, 🇮🇹raised €1.3m in a Seed round from CHMBR Partners, 50 Partners Capital Health, and Business Angels des Grandes Écoles.
Exsensia, a robotics startup, 🇮🇹raised €1m in a Seed round from RoboIT, Elettrocablaggi, and Pariter Robotics.
Saturnalia, an agri-tech startup, 🇮🇹raised €600k in a Seed round from Farming Future.
Prensilia, a robotics startup, 🇮🇹raised an undisclosed amount in a Early-stage round from RoboIT, Pariter Robotics, and Toscana Next.
The Money International💰🌎
LIFTT 🇮🇹joined a €21.5m round in Sparrow Quantum.
Nextalia Ventures joined a $75m Series B round raised by Rain, a fintech company.
M&A 🥩
Arising Ventures 🇮🇹acquired Softgen AI.
Reading this week📚
Neva SGR 🇮🇹invested €2.5m in Galaxia, the technology hub for space technologies.
Stanford published the AI Index 2025.
Jeff Bezos 🇮🇹will be the main guest at the Italian Tech Week 2025.
The European Commission presented the AI Continent action plan. Italy to host one of the 13 supercomputers for AI.
I wonder why Italy was left out of hosting a focus area about Manufacturing & Engineering (Italy is the 2nd largest manufacturer in Europe) and of Aerospace (Italy is the 3rd contributor to ESA), and we have… technology & digital?
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N.