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America’s Auto Auction Enters Global Market with Acquisition of UK-Based G3 Vehicle Auctions

by CisionApril 2, 2026

Italy’s private debt & corporate finance weekly round-up. News from Dolce & Gabbana, Rothschild, Intesa Sanpaolo, BNL BNP Paribas, Banco BPM, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Crédit Agricole Italia, Sace, and more

by Salvatore BrunoApril 2, 2026

Paris-based Generare raises €20 million to generate novel molecular data for drug development from microbial genomes

by EU StartupsApril 2, 2026

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Athora Group completes acquisition of Pension Insurance Corporation Group and announces plans to relocate headquarters to the UK

DMG gets approval for extra 10MW at Christina Lake data center site in Canada

UK chip startup Fractile looking to raise $200m at $1bn valuation – report

Italy

Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from BeBeez, Integrae Sim, Dolce & Gabbana, QIA, PIF, GIC, SPIG, GMAB, Auctus Capital Partners, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, and more

Italy’s private debt & corporate finance weekly round-up. News from Dolce & Gabbana, Rothschild, Intesa Sanpaolo, BNL BNP Paribas, Banco BPM, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Crédit Agricole Italia, Sace, and more

Italy’s private debt & corporate finance weekly round-up. News from Banca Progetto, JPMorgan, TPER, Intesa SanPaolo, CDP, BPER, F2i, and more

DISTRESSED ASSETS

Italy’s distressed assets and NPEs weekly round-up. News from Banca Progetto, Oaktree Capital Management, Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Banco BPM, BPER Banca, Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, MCC, and more

Italy’s angels & incubators and venture capital weekly roundup. News from Trifoglio, Pop Wash, Luca Pretto, Paolo Frigati, Subbyx, Systemiq Capital, Flashpoint (debt), Azimut Venture Capital Digitech Europe, FNDX, and more

Italy’s angels & incubators and venture capital weekly roundup. News from Trifoglio, Pop Wash, Luca Pretto, Paolo Frigati, Subbyx, Systemiq Capital, Flashpoint (debt), Azimut Venture Capital Digitech Europe, FNDX, and more

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Crypto-assets supervision rules in Italy, Banca d’Italia will supervise payment systems and Consob on market abuse

Crypto-assets supervision rules in Italy, Banca d’Italia will supervise payment systems and Consob on market abuse

by Stefania Peveraro

November 4, 2024

Joint document published by the two authorities clarifying who does what on crypto-assets, following the publication in Italy's Official Gazette...

Italy’s SMEs export toward 260 bn euros in 2025

Italy’s SMEs export toward 260 bn euros in 2025

September 9, 2024

With two months to go before the NPL Directive, in Italy the securitization rebus is still to be unraveled

With two months to go before the NPL Directive, in Italy the securitization rebus is still to be unraveled

EU’s AI Act, like previous rules on technology, looks more defensive than investment-oriented

EU’s AI Act, like previous rules on technology, looks more defensive than investment-oriented

January 9, 2024

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Italy’s venture capital, nearly €2 bn in funding in 2025 (net of Bending Spoon’s venture debt). BeBeez Report

Italy’s venture capital, nearly €2 bn in funding in 2025 (net of Bending Spoon’s venture debt). BeBeez Report

February 3, 2026

Italian private equity accelerates, driven by add-ons. BeBeez reports.

Italian private equity accelerates, driven by add-ons. BeBeez reports.

September 7, 2025

AlixPartners: Automotive, retail and manufacturing sectors may go through restructuring in 2025

AlixPartners: Automotive, retail and manufacturing sectors may go through restructuring in 2025

Funds vying for management consulting firm BIP, a CVC portfolio company. All deals in the sector

Funds vying for management consulting firm BIP, a CVC portfolio company. All deals in the sector

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Iberia

After driving major citizen campaigns, values-led MOVEMENTS secures €300k pre-Seed and opens extension round

MOVEMENTS, a Spanish platform that enables the creation, scaling and sustainability of citizen movements, has reached its initial target of...

Meet the speakers joining the “Insights from European Space Innovators” panel at the EU-Startups Summit 2026!

On May 7-8, 2026, the EU-Startups Summit returns to sunny Malta, bringing together around 2,500 founders, investors, and startup ecosystem...

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Benelux

Brussels-based Nexus lands €3.7 million to bring AI agents into core business operations

Nexus, a Belgian agentic AI platform enabling enterprises to deploy autonomous agents, announced a €3.7 million ($4.3 million) Seed funding...

Reju Secures €135 Million in Dutch NIKI Funding for Industrial-Scale Textile-to-Textile Regeneration Hub at Chemelot Industrial Park, the Netherlands

Swiss AviationTech startup Metafuels secures €1.92 million Dutch grant to boost Rotterdam e-SAF project

Luxembourg’s TerraSpark raises over €5 million to harness solar energy from space and deliver it wirelessly to Earth

France

Paris-based Generare raises €20 million to generate novel molecular data for drug development from microbial genomes

Scaling AI at industrial speed: The new data center imperative

French State completes acquisition of Atos AI, HPC, and quantum group Bull

Scandinavia & Baltics

ESTO Holdings OÜ Establishes €20 Million Subordinated Notes Programme

TALLINN, Estonia, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ESTO Group (ESTO Holdings OÜ), the leading Estonian non-bank consumer credit provider, today...

WhiteBridge AI Raises €2.6 Seed

Estonian Validfor raises $1.2 mililion pre-seed to cut pharma validation timelines from months to weeks

Bitdeer taps contractor to begin conversion of Norwegian crypto mine to HPC

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America’s Auto Auction Enters Global Market with Acquisition of UK-Based G3 Vehicle Auctions

CARMEL, Ind., April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- America's Auto Auction today announced its entry into the international market through the ...

April 2, 2026

Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from BeBeez, Integrae Sim, Dolce & Gabbana, QIA, PIF, GIC, SPIG, GMAB, Auctus Capital Partners, Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, and more

Italy’s private debt & corporate finance weekly round-up. News from Dolce & Gabbana, Rothschild, Intesa Sanpaolo, BNL BNP Paribas, Banco BPM, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Crédit Agricole Italia, Sace, and more

Download here the 2025 BeBeez Private Debt Report available for the subscribers to BeBeez News Premium and BeBeez Private Data ...

April 2, 2026

Paris-based Generare raises €20 million to generate novel molecular data for drug development from microbial genomes

Generare, a Paris-based BioTech startup generating novel, high-quality molecular data for drug development by decoding microbial genomes, has raised €20 ...

April 2, 2026

ESTO Holdings OÜ Establishes €20 Million Subordinated Notes Programme

TALLINN, Estonia, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ESTO Group (ESTO Holdings OÜ), the leading Estonian non-bank consumer credit provider, today ...

April 2, 2026

Norway’s Lace Lithography raises $40 million Series A to reinvent chipmaking with atom-beam technology

- Advertisement - --> Bergen-headquartered startup Lace Lithography has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Atomico, ...

April 2, 2026

Lupin Completes Acquisition of VISUfarma

MUMBAI, India and LONDON and ROME and ZUG, Switzerland, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Global pharma major Lupin Limited (Lupin) ...

April 2, 2026

Scaling AI at industrial speed: The new data center imperative

AI is no longer just a software story. Behind the algorithms lies a transformation of the physical infrastructure that powers ...

April 2, 2026

Connectome secures €1.7 million to scale personalised brain health insights and early cognitive change…

Connectome, a Zurich and London-based NeuroTech startup, has closed a pre-Seed financing round of approximately €1.7 million ($2 million) to ...

April 2, 2026