TWIS #245
Medicud, Exsensia, Saturnalia raised funding. Softgen AI was acquired by Arising Ventures. LIFTT and Nextalia invested internationally. Stanford's AI Index 2025 is out.
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.