In the second quarter of 2022, investments in the Italian venture capital reached € 552.6 million compared to € 443.6 million in the first quarter. The number of investment rounds instead recorded a contraction: 57 in the second quarter of the year against 76 in the same period of the previous year. These are the data published byVenture Capital Observatory in Italyrealized by Growth Capital, the first Italian advisor specialized in capital increases and extraordinary finance operations for startups and scaleups, in collaboration with Italian Tech Alliance, the Italian association of Venture Capital, innovation investors and innovative startups and SMEs. The total for the first six months of the year is 996 million euros invested in total.
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Overall, according to the report, over 996 million were invested in the first half of the year, an increase compared to the second half of 2021 (+ 30%), although strongly influenced by Scalapay’s Serie B (188 million) and Serie A of Newcleo (300 million). 133 rounds were announced in the first half of 2022the highest number in the 2017-2022 period, with the exception of 147 in the first half of 2021.
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Q2-22 recorded the second best result in the last 5 years (552.6 million), with 1 investment well above 100 million. Interesting indications, explains the report, emerge looking at the segmentation of round by type: i Serie A (418 million) eh Series B (316 million) they raised more in the first half of 2022 than in all of 2021, with an increase of 17% and 66% respectively. There was a contraction in Seed investments, which totaled just over a third of the total collection in 2021. In numerical terms, the Seed rounds were confirmed as the most represented type also in the first half of 2022, with 76 rounds.
The sectors that attracted the most funding
In the first half of 2022, the first sector in terms of the amount raised is Smart City (322.6 million in 16 rounds), followed by the Fintech (315.8 million in 20 rounds), e Food and Agriculture (88.9 million in 14 rounds). Smart City, DeepTech and Software are the only sectors to have manifested one numerical growth in Q2-22 versus Q1-22 (respectively +8, +3 e +2).
The first five rounds of Q2-2022 are that of Newcleo (Serie A, 300 million), You will see (Seed, 40 million), Arduino (Serie B, 30 million), Scalapay (Series B, 24.3 million) e Cortilia (Series C, 20 million).
In the first half of the year, foreign investors participated in 29% of the rounds (up slightly from 25% in 2021). In terms of the amount raised, the H1-22 saw an increase in the incidence of rounds with the presence of foreign investors (68% vs 57% in 2021), a trend already anticipated in the VC Quarterly Observatory of Q1-22 and which is expected to continue in the medium to long term.