TWIS #298

Short work week in Italy: Vivilo raised funding. 360Cap led a round in GR3N. Alia Mentis is planning an IPO.

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.

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The Money 💰

• Vivilo, an event-tech startup, 🇮🇹raised 628k in a Seed round from Business Angels.

The Money International 💰

• 360Cap led a €15.5m round raised by Swiss startup GR3N

IPOs 🥂

• Alia Mentis 🇮🇹is planning an IPO on the Italian stock exchange

M&A 🥩

• CommerceClarity 🇮🇹acquired Katalogo.ai

• Angelini Venture’s first exit is worth $340m: Noctrix 🇮🇹was acquired by ResMed

• TrueLayer acquired In3.

Reading this week📚

• Chinese robotics company Ubtech 🇮🇹to choose Italy for its European HQ.

• A2A Life Ventures 🇮🇹announced Materia, a computer vision product to track waste.

• Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus | Nature

  

  shira@shiraeis

  if you’re into neuro and think we live in a simulation, read on: just found this paper arguing the hippocampus may be more of a world model compiler than infra for archiving memory. as we learn, it seems to break down noisy continuous experience into discrete latent states we

  1:23 AM · Jun 6, 2026 · 33.2K Views

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  25 Replies · 14 Reposts · 246 Likes

• The pendulum - (I share the same feelings).

  

  GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg

  Funny how the pendulum shifts 1. "GPT wrappers are worthless" → the value acrues to application layer 2. "AI will eliminate white collar jobs" → someone needs to manage all these AI agents and everyone is now saying white collar workers will rise due to AI 3. "Open source

  4:28 PM · Jun 1, 2026 · 107K Views

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  164 Replies · 158 Reposts · 1.33K Likes

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Ending Notes📝

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N.