TWIS #275
Generative Bionics, Equixly, Ogyre, Random Power, and Ekory raised funding. The EIB supported ScalaPay with a €70m loan.
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 💰
Generative Bionics, a humanoid robotics startup, 🇮🇹raised €70m in a Growth round from CDP Venture Capital, AMD Ventures, Duferco, Eni Next, RoboIT, and Tether.
Equixly, an agentic AI cybersec startup, raised €10m in a Series A round from 33N Ventures, Alpha Intelligence Capital, JME Ventures, 360 Capital, and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.
Ogyre, a climate-tech startup, 🇮🇹raised €3.8m in a Growth round from Vertis SGR, Crédit Agricole Italia, and Open Venture.
Random Power, a quantum-based hardware startup, 🇮🇹raised €2.6m in a Early-stage round from Deep Blue Ventures, Emerald Development Managers LP, 40Jemz Ventures, and Galaxia.
Ekory, a knowledge management startup, 🇮🇹raised €150k in a Pre-seed round from ZNEXT.
Reading this week📚
ESA BIC Turin, a space-tech incubator, 🇮🇹has supported 30 space-tech startups that raised €24m to date.
Primo Deep Dives - Space Economy | Primo Capital.
AutoBench Goes to the Farm with Evja: The First Ever Agronomy Benchmark | HuggingFace.
Veolia 🇮🇹announced Research Gateway, an accelerator for green energy and climatetech | Industria Italiana.
Italy: EIB invests €70 million in Scalapay to accelerate technological innovation in Europe | EIB.
2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise | Menlo Ventures.
Audiencerate Achieves Google Customer Match Partner Status, strengthening its role as a Global Data Provider | BusinessWire.
Big ideas 2026 | A16Z.
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N.