TWIS #307

WeRoad, Aflabox, and Collecto raised funding. Bending Spoons acquired Airtable.

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 💰

• WeRoad 🇮🇹raised €10m in a Growth round from UniCredit (club deal with over 100 Ultra High Net Worth clients).

• Aflabox, a food-tech startup, raised €1.35m in a Seed round from FoodSeed and Farming Future.

• Como 1907 Ventures 🇮🇹invested an undisclosed amount in Collecto.

M&A 🥩

• Bending Spoons acquired Airtable.

• CDP 🇮🇹acquired T-Defense from Tinexta.

• Flatmates 🇮🇹acquired LaCrème.

Reading this week📚

• A video 🇮🇹interview with Gianluca Dettori (Primo Capital) about the future of technology.

• Leonardo Capital Sim 🇮🇹acquired a 5% stake in Weltix.

• AIRTABLE ACQUISITION: WHO GETS THE 💰 HOME:

  

  Paul@P_Bonnet

  AIRTABLE ACQUISITION: WHO GETS THE 💰 HOME // WHO GETS LEFT BEHIND? A breakdown below 👇 (Note: underlying returns and waterfall model built on the assumption of all rounds at standard 1.0x liq pref, non participating - and based on publicly available information) First off,

  

  11:57 AM · Aug 4, 2026 · 264K Views

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• Board Meetings 101 (for Early Stage Founders):

  

  Liz Wessel@lizwessel

  Whenever one of my portfolio companies close their Series A, one of the most common Qs I get is: how should I prepare for my first board meeting? I haven't found a pre-existing article I love that I find very helpful, so I decided to write one. Enjoy! https://t.co/aafz6y3Tpb

  12:33 AM · Aug 4, 2026 · 72.2K Views

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Ending Notes📝

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N.