As of March 2024, 15.5 million have been invested in startups, in 11 capital increases. In March 2023 there were 11 for 87.68 million euros (HERE the other operations from last year, to be integrated with the Material science and Alps blockchain deals). The total collected in the first three months of the year is 275.43 million. In the same period of time, last year we were at 178.97. Among this month’s operations, the 3.7 million raised by Kurs orbital and the 2.8 million by Wesii stand out. To these must be added the equity crowdfunding campaigns which raised a monthly total of 1.2 million.
The month ended with important news for the Italian startup ecosystem. Slush, one of the main European tech conferences, has announced that it will hold an edition in Italy, in Bolzano. Here is the news anticipated by Italian Tech.
Fintech, Qonto wants to acquire the French Regate
Qonto, a startup that develops solutions for corporate financial management, has announced its intention to acquire the French fintech company Regate (founded in 2020, already serving 10 thousand SMEs and 500 accounting companies with its accounting and financial automation platform ). Details HERE.
Bending Spoons close to purchasing Vimeo
Bending Spoons, a Milanese company among the main app developers in the world, would be close to a new coup, the purchase of Vimeo, an American hosting giant worth around 816 million dollars. We talk about it HERE.
Quantonation invests in Quantum Italia
Quantonation, a venture capital fund dedicated to deep physics and quantum technologies (headquarters in Paris and Boston, investments in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific), enters the capital of Quantum Italia, an investment vehicle of Scientifica Venture Capital, dedicated to investments in the quantum technologies sector.
Unicredit and Gammadonna together for female entrepreneurship
The fourth edition of the Women onboarding mentoring path is underway, an initiative promoted by Unicredit, in partnership with the Gammadonna association, which aims to support female entrepreneurship through the building of synergies and the development of skills to stimulate growth professional and personal.
Cancer, Angelini invests 7 million in Nouscom
Swiss biotech Nouscom has raised another 7 million euros from Angelini ventures: extension of the round (total 75.8 million euros) led by Andera partners, Bpifrance and M ventures. All the info HERE.
3 million for Datakrypto, P101 and Cysero invest
Datakrypto, a startup specializing in cybersecurity, founded in 2021 in Silicon Valley by Luigi Caramico, has secured a 3 million euro investment round, underwritten by P101, through the Programma 103 and Azimut eltif venture capital P103 funds, and by the Cysero fund . HERE are the other details.
Work, +59% of employees for startups between 2020 and 2022
A job growth rate of 59% between 2020 and 2022 for Italian startups and an average annual growth rate of 26.2%, with 80% of jobs generated by approximately 25% of startups. These are the main results that emerged from “Startups, scaleups and employment in Italy: impact and trends”, research carried out by the hi-tech startup and startup Observatories
thinking of the Polytechnic of Milan for the Italian tech alliance.
The aerospace startup Kurs orbital, incubated in I3p and in the Esa Bic Turin path, has closed a seed round of 3.7 million euros. Among the investors, Otb Ventures, Crede ventures, Galaxia, In-q-tel and Inovo. The company makes modules for launchers that, for example, remove space debris or transfer satellites into orbit, as well as those that deal with “de-orbiting” or satellite inspections. Also here.
Drones, Wesii collects 2.8 million
Terna forward and Dxt commodities have invested 2.8 million euros in Wesii, a startup specialized in remote sensing activities using drones and unmanned aerial vehicles. Also here.
Stellantis invests in Steerlight Lidar
Steerlight, a spin-off of Cea-Leti, which is developing Lidar technology using silicon photonics, has closed a financing round of 2 million euros from a group of investors led by Stellantis ventures, together with Quantonation and Liftt . Details HERE.
Other investments in March
Equity crowdfunding
These innovative startups and SMEs have closed their equity crowdfunding campaigns:
To not lose the thread. HERE is the news from last month