EBAMed, a Swiss-Italian firm for medical image guidance, said it raised a Series A round of 14.35 million euros that Panakès Partners led (see here a previous post by BeBeez). EBAMed also attracted the resources of Mayo Clinic, EIC Fund (part of EU Commission Enhanced European Innovation Council), LIFTT, Swiss EFI Lake Geneva Ventures, and Occident. The company will invest these proceeds in the First in Human experimentation stage of its CardioKit system. Giovanni Leo is the chairman and co-founder of EBAMed.
BlackSheep MadTech Fund, a vehicle of Eureka! Venture for the digital marketing and advertising sectors, financed and created Blendee out of the merger of Neodata Group and Adabra Global (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Blendee has a proprietary operative system for marketing and attracted 6 million euros from BlackSheep MatTech. Neodata has sales of 1.7 million, an ebitda of minus 0.218 million and equity of one million. Prior to this merger, the company belonged to Xyence Capital (27.78%), Giovanni Giuffrida (26.51%), Catarina Isabel Ribeiro Sismerio (13.36%), Piksel (10.11%), Tommaso Giola (9.53%), and other minority shareholders. Adabra has sales of 3 million. Gian Mario Infelici is the ceo of Blendee.
The merger of Milan-listed venture investors LVenture Group (LVG) and Digital Magics (DM) is gaining momentum (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The shareholders of Digital Magics will own 63% of the merged entity as they will receive 46 shares of the merged entity for each of their own 5 shares. LVenture Group will have 37% of the new business. LVG will also launch a 2.5 million euros capital increase at 0.43 euros per share that may attract up to 8 million from Rome’s LUISS University. The merged entity may belong to StarTIP (13.11% – 12.75% voting rights), LUISS (11.73% – 11.41%), LV.EN. (9.35% – 10.17%). Luigi Capello is the ceo of LVG and Marco Gay is the executive chairman of DM.
Exor Ventures will lead the 4.7 million euros pre-seed round of Jet HR, a provider of payroll systems for SMEs (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company also attracted the resources of 2100 Ventures, B Heroes, Club degli Investitori, Ithaca Investments, Proximity Capital, Prana Ventures, Plug & Play Tech Center, FG2 Capital, and LVenture. Jet HR received also the financing from Italian Founders Fund, Luca Ascani, Dario Brignone, Alberto Dalmasso, Max Ciociola, Luca Ferrari, Luca Foresti, Diego Piacentini, Matteo Pichi, Giorgio Tinacci, David Clarke, Joe Zadeh, and other angel investors. Marco Ogliengo and Francesco Scalambrino are the founders of Jet HR that will invest such proceeds in its organic growth.
Planckian, an Italian developer of quantistic batteries that spun-off from Pisa University and Scuola Normale Superiore, raised pre-seed resources of 2.7 million euros from Eureka! Venture, CDP Venture Capital, Exor Ventures, and other business angels (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Marco Polini (cso) and Vittorio Giovannetti (executive scientific advisor) head Planckian.
Riello Investimenti will soon announce the first closing for its agrifoodtech Linfa Ventures’ fundraising (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The vehicle could attract commitments for 60 million euros by September 2023 ahead of a total target of 80 million. Linfa has a tenure of ten years that may extend by a further three years and an IRR target of 20%. The fund may invest 40% of its resources in late-stage firms that have not yet reached their break even and 60% of its money in consolidated SMEs. Linfa Ventures was born as a partnership of Marco Gaiani and Michele Costabile.
ClubDeal Digital, a digital ecosystem for private asset investments, signed a partnership with Bcode, a spin off of Milan Polytechnic University for the tokenization of financial investments (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The business angels and professional investors that are members of CludDeal Digital will benefit of the proprietary blockchain of Bcode. The companies that will launch fundraising campaign on ClubDeal Digital may find investors more quickly.
On 30 June, Friday, RedFish LongTerm Capital, an Italian investment holding for SMEs, listed on Milan market with a market capitalization of 28.69 million euros and a public traded equity of 26.88% that may increase to 28% if the investors exercise the overallotment option after having subscribed to a 4.465 million capital increase and converted in equity the 2.99 million bond that the company issued in 2022 (see here a previous post by BeBeez).
Ener2Crowd.com, an Italian lending crowdfunding for the energy sector, launched an investment fund for renewable energy and energy transition (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The platform aims to raise 100 million euros by 2024. Niccolò Sovico, Giorgio Mottironi, Paolo Baldinelli, and Sergio Pedolazzi founded Ener2Crowd.com in 2018.
