TWIS #300 🎂
X-nano, Soource, Bestie Bite, Sirius Game, Niino, and Cloov raised funding.
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.
And happy 300th issue to TWIS! 🎂
The Money 💰
X-nano, a synthetic graphite startup, 🇮🇹raised €3.7m in a Seed round from Mito Tech Ventures, Pietro Fiorentini and other business angels.
Soource, an AI procurement startup, raised €3m in a Seed round from Vertis, Tenity, 360 Capital, and Club degli Investitori.
Bestie Bite, a social review startup, raised €1.5m in a Seed round from G&G (Grassi family holding company).
Sirius Game, an edtech startup, raised €1.3m in a Seed round from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Trentino Invest, Ultra VC, 28Digital, and Add Value.
niino, a medical transportation startup, raised €1.26m in a Pre-seed round from 40Jemz Ventures, Michele Grazioli, Danila De Stefano, Massimiliano Squillace, Alessandro Braga, Francesco Zaccariello, and Fabrizio Perrone.
Cloov, a circular economy startup, raised €1m in a Seed round from StyleIT, Maze Impact, and Gateway Ventures.
The Money - International 🇮🇹🌍
Rainbow Crops, a Belgium-based agritech startup, raised €9.7m in a Seed round from LIFTT, AIF, PINC, VIB, Corteva, and Maia Ventures.
Reading this week📚
The Founder's Playbook: Building an AI-Native Startup | Anthropic.
We are entering the era of compound models | OpenRouter
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N.
X-nano is the sleeper of this batch.
Living in China myself, I got to know that anode-grade synthetic graphite is still overwhelmingly China-controlled.
So domestic production is as much industrial power as it gets.