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.