TWIS #273
Real Bowl, Blubrake, Totally Innovation, and Johix raised funding. Future Energy Ventures raised second fund.
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 💰
Real Bowl, a fresh dog food subscription service, raised €3.2m in a Seed round from undisclosed investors.
Blubrake, a bicycle tech company, 🇮🇹raised €2.5m extending its 12m round opened in April, from Suprajit and Primo Capital.
Totally Innovation, a media tech company, 🇮🇹raised €600k in a Pre-seed round from Invitalia, Ventive, and studio Villa & Associati.
Johix, a company offering a platform for subscription rental services, 🇮🇹raised €300k in a Early-stage round from MB Speedup (Founders Factory + Mediobanca).
New Funds💫
Berlin VC firm Future Energy Ventures raises second fund of €235m | Sifted [they raised €30m from CDP].
Reading this week📚
Menarini, Exein and Tundr 🇮🇹won EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 | StartupItalia.
The Techshop is 🇮🇹preparing to raise its second fund | Startup Business.
London & Milan’s BKN301 Group secured €11m in a credit line from BlackRock | EU Startups.
A 🇮🇹profile of Alps | StartupItalia.
Last week, I teamed up with Kevin Indig from Growth Memo, Growth Capital, G2, and Wordlift analyzing what is going on in the AI Search market, and we produced a brief but rich memo that you can find here. TL;DR: a lot of capital is being deployed in the monitoring space, but long term value might be in outcomes, not insights (read: agents, not dashboards). Head over to Kevin’s newsletter for the full article.
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Have a great week,
N.