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 💰
Latitudo 40, a Geospatial intelligence startup, 🇮🇹raised €2.9m in a Seed round from Vertis SGR (Vertis Venture 6 Digital Sud), Kurrant Ventures and CRIF S.p.A.
Active Label, a smart labels startup, raised €2m in a Seed round from Eureka! Venture and Farming Future.
XMetaReal, an extended learning startup, 🇮🇹raised €1.5m in a Seed round from Challenge Network and Business angels.
Deploiable, an AI product lab, 🇮🇹raised €500k in a Seed round from Cannonball, Claudio Enriquez, Enrico Reggiani and Mirko Faiozzo.
Veliu, an agentic commerce startup, 🇮🇹raised an undisclosed amount in a Seed round from Emblem, Vento and Alecla7.
M&A 🥩
Azimut 🇮🇹acquired LIFTT.
New funds💫
CDP VC 🇮🇹invested in Jolt Capital V.
Reading this week 📚
CDP Venture Capital 🇮🇹launched SophIA, the National Technology Transfer Hub for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity.1
Lara 3, the Italian AI specialized in professional translations by Translated, 🇮🇹was released to the general public.
Scaleway 🇮🇹completed its Milan-based region | Il Sole 24 ore.
The IH1 holding company secured €10 million in funding | StartupBusiness.
D-Wave Delivers Italy’s First Annealing Quantum Computer.
Berkshire Hathaway invests further $330 million in Bending Spoons following $600 million IPO investment | BusinessWire.
🇮🇹VC in Italy, a preview of the first three quarters in Italian VC by Growth Capital and ITA | StartupBusiness.
Bolzano-based LOOOPS won Masschallenge Switzerland.
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N.
I am a bit late to this one - it is from a month ago.