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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 💰
CyberKord, a cybersecurity startup, raised €2.7m in a Pre-seed round from 360 Capital, Plus Partners, Addendum Capital and Vento.
M&A 🥩
SECO accelerates its growth in APAC with the acquisition of Qiyang Technology and increases its stake in Fannal Electronics to 100%.
Reading this week 📚
Hackers attacked refrigerators in Italy | CyberSecItalia.
InnovUp 🇮🇹published the second edition of their report on Italian Venture Studios | StartupItalia.
The seven startups 🇮🇹elected for FoodSeed 2026, an acceleration program | StartupItalia.
Levanto Labs released Sage2, the new edition of their decision model:
Levanto Labs@levantolabsSoftware can now understand human language and act on it, in real time. Introducing Sage2 - Extract: natural language in, structured data out. 166x cheaper than Opus 5.5, beats @Cloudflare's Clairic - Decide: the first decision model with streaming. 3x faster, because it reads …
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