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Lyft scoops up taxi app FreeNow in €175m cash deal to enter Europe

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Hugging Face acquires French humanoid robot startup Pollen Robotics

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Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from DeA Capital Alternative Funds, Cigierre, Bc Partners, Quattro R, Impresoft, Clessidra, and more

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Amazon signs PPA with OX2 for 472MW of onshore wind power in Finland

Battery startup Nyobolt raises $30m after warning it could run out of cash

Italy

Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from DeA Capital Alternative Funds, Cigierre, Bc Partners, Quattro R, Impresoft, Clessidra, and more

Italy’s Real Estate weekly round-up. News from DeA Capital Real Estate, Blackstone, Panattoni Park Voghera, Castellare, and more

Italy’s private debt & corporate finance weekly round-up. News from Gourmet Italian Food, Chequers Capital, Crédit Agricole Italia, BNL BNP Paribas, Banca Ifis, Banca Sella, Fortore Energia, Unicredit, Irce, Banco BPM, and more

Italy’s private debt & corporate finance weekly round-up. News from Gourmet Italian Food, Chequers Capital, Crédit Agricole Italia, BNL BNP Paribas, Banca Ifis, Banca Sella, Fortore Energia, Unicredit, Irce, Banco BPM, 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, Centerbridge Partners, Oaktree Capital Management, Centrale Banca Credito Cooperativo Italiano, Generalfinance, 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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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

Private equity, Italy 2024 closes with 588 deals as for investments and divestments from 549 in 2023. Here is the new BeBeez’s report

Private equity, Italy 2024 closes with 588 deals as for investments and divestments from 549 in 2023. Here is the new BeBeez’s report

February 10, 2025

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

November 4, 2024

Venture capital investments top €1.3bn in 208 rounds as of Sep30 in Italy. They were €1.5 in all 2023. The new BeBeez Report

Venture capital investments top €1.3bn in 208 rounds as of Sep30 in Italy. They were €1.5 in all 2023. The new BeBeez Report

October 28, 2024

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Lyft scoops up taxi app FreeNow in €175m cash deal to enter Europe

San Francisco-based ride-hailing platform Lyft announced it had entered an agreement to acquire FreeNow, a Hamburg-based multi-mobility group owned by...

The defence tech startups fundraising right now, according to VCs

Get ready for the “Investors on Stage” session at this year’s EU-Startups Summit!

OpenAI and SoftBank mull UK investment for Trump’s Stargate AI project, reports say

German startup Pliant acquires Austrian startup hi.health to bring its payment expertise to the insurance market

Rönesans Holding to Fuel Economic Growth with New $2 Billion Polypropylene (PP) Production Plant and Terminal Investments in Türkiye

Wayve plays advantage as tariffs threaten self-driving vehicles market

Iberia

Mortgage price war hots up as major lenders cut rates – others ease rules

by Property Industry Eye

Santander and HSBC were among major lenders to announce significant rate cuts yesterday, with some deals now starting from below...

HR platform Job&Talent raises €92m, doubles down on AI agents

Madrid-based scaleup Job&Talent, a platform for finding temporary work, has raised €92m in Series F funding from new and existing...

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Benelux

Bill Gates’s policy team leaves Europe: what does it mean for climate tech?

Over the last four years, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy has become one of key lobbying forces in European tech, steering...

Dexters acquires fourth independent estate agency in just one month

Colt Technology Services sells European data centers to NorthC

EIF head Marjut Falkstedt: “We will not finance weapons and ammunition”

France

Hugging Face acquires French humanoid robot startup Pollen Robotics

Sagard Announces Strategic Partnership with BEX Capital to Strengthen Private Equity Secondaries Offering

Reju Partners with Italy’s Rematrix Securing Sustainable Textile Supply Chain for Regeneration Hubs

Scandinavia & Baltics

Bitdeer acquires 40MW of Bitcoin mining containers from Saiheat

by dcd

Blockchain technology company Bitdeer has acquired 40MW worth of liquid-cooled mining containers from Saiheat.According to a recent announcement, the newly...

Estonian Esgrid’s shift to broader supplier workflows attracts new investment

ASSA ABLOY acquires Pedestal PRO in the US

Estonian startup Esgrid raises €900k for supplier management for SMEs

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Lyft scoops up taxi app FreeNow in €175m cash deal to enter Europe

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Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from DeA Capital Alternative Funds, Cigierre, Bc Partners, Quattro R, Impresoft, Clessidra, and more

Italy’s Real Estate weekly round-up. News from DeA Capital Real Estate, Blackstone, Panattoni Park Voghera, Castellare, and more

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The defence tech startups fundraising right now, according to VCs

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Revolut is drawing up plans for a rewards credit card. Can it take on giants like American Express?

Revolut is in the early stages of developing a rewards credit card, as Sifted exclusively reported earlier this week. Founded in ...

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AI keeps the lights on: European startups double down on AI as funding declines elsewhere

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Topgolf founders rack up $34m for high-tech pool startup Poolhouse

The twin brothers behind tech-enabled social sports chains like Puttshack and Topgolf have scored $34m in funding for their new ...

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