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 💰
FutureProofSociety, a media startup, 🇮🇹raised €1.5m in a Seed round from Media Capital Ventures and Business Angels.
Genius4U, a wellbeing startup, 🇮🇹raised €1m in a Seed round from UpDay, Open Venture, CDP Venture Capital SGR, a|impact, SocialFare Seed, and Fondazione Italiana Accenture.
QSENSATO, a quantum sensor startup, raised €500k in a Pre-seed round from LIFTT, Quantum Italia.
HAT Music, a startup connecting emerging artists with music experts, 🇮🇹raised €200k in a Seed round from B4i.
M&A 🥩
P101 SGR exited from Civitfun, acquired by HBX Group.
Sesa acquired a majority stake of Delta Tecnologías de Información SL
Reading this week📚
G42 and iGenius 🇮🇹entered in an agreement to build the biggest AI computing cluster in Europe.
Satispay is 🇮🇹expanding its financial services portfolio offering.
An Aalto University researcher claims current AI has already “functional free will”.
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Have a great week,
N.