As BeBeez reported earielr in Septmeber, D-Orbit, an Italian scaleup for space logistic, attracted the investment of Japan’s competitor Marubeni which led a financing round of 100 million euros (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company said to BeBeez that it will also convert in equity part of the bonds and hybrid instruments that issued between 2022 and 2023. BofA Securities, Unicredit and Banca Investis acted as joint placement agents. D-Orbit received assistance from Eversheds Sutherland while Marubeni retained Gianni & Origoni. The company will invest such resources in its Italian operations. Luca Rossettini is the CEO of the firm and founded it in 2011 with Renato Panesi. Toru Okazaki is Marubeni’s chief operating officer, Aerospace & Ship Division. D-Orbit previously raised 21.2 million. Before such a round, the company belonged to Indaco (18.29%), Neva (10.37%), Seraphim Space Investment Trust (10-37%), Rossettini (8.58%), Panesi (5.93%), TT Seed (7.54%), CDP Venture Capital (6.95%), and Simonfid (5.95%).
Qomodo attracted pre-seed facilities of 34.5 million euros for developing its paytech and BNPL (buy now pay later) solutions (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Gianluca Cocco and Gaetano De Maio founded the company that attracted the resources of lead investor Fasanara Capital, Exor Ventures, Proximity Capital, Ithaca Investment, Lumen Ventures, The Techshop, Primo Ventures, Notion Capital, Octopus Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Mark Ransford, Luca Ascani, Attilio Mazzilli, Simone Mancini, Benedetta Arese Lucini, Kai Hansen, Giorgio Tinacci, Stiven Muccioli, Freddy Kelly, Christer Holloman, Raffaele Terrone, LCA Ventures, and Andrea Gennarini. Qomodo hired LCA Studio Legale.
ShippyPro, an Italian startup that provides a shipping technology for e-commerce platforms, attracted 15 million US Dollars from lead investor Five Elms Capital (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company will invest such resources in its organic growth. Francesco Borghi (ceo) and Lorenzo Rogai (cto) founded ShippyPro in 2016.
Israeli’s medtech PhaseV attracted 15 million US Dollars from Viola Ventures, Exor Ventures, LionBird, and further angel investors (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company received 9 million in seed facilities and 6 million in Safe (simple sgreement for future equity) notes. Elad Berkman, Dan Goldstaub and Raviv Pryluk founded PhaseV.
Dreamfarm, a B-Corp that produces vegan mozzarella cheese, attracted 5 million euros Francesco Mutti and Giampaolo Cagnin (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Dreamfarm will invest such resources in its organic development as it aims to generate more than 10 million euros in sales in the next three years.
Entropica Labs, a softwar publisher for quantum computers based in Singapore, attracted 4.7 million US Dollars from lead investor LIFTT and Wavemaker Partners (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Entropica Labs also received money from Seeds Capital, CerraCap Ventures, SUTD Ventures, and Elev8 VC. Tommaso Demarie and Ewan Munro are the founders of Entropica.
Soundsafe Care, an Italian medtech, attracted 1.75 million euros from RoboIT (a vehicle of CDP Venture Capital), Pariter Robotics and Fondo Toscana Next (a vehicle in which Fondazione CR Firenze, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, Fondazione Caript, and Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena poured their resources) (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Soundsafe is a spin-off of Pisa-based Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna that Andrea Mariani and Laura Morchi founded in 20222. The company will invest such proceeds in hiring further resources and its proprietary technology.
Wora, an Italian provider of delivery servides for e-commerce and retailers, opened a bureau in Paris (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Earlier in January, the company attracted 0.6 million euros from Italian Angels for Growth, Club degli Investitori and other business angels. Gaetano Sanfilippo and Jacopo Mazzola founded the company in 2020.
Yaba, a Spanish aggregator of digital native brands that sell their products through Amazon, acquired 75% of Italian BidMamba, a vendor of items for low-cost trips that Davide D’Angelo and Andrea Borghi founded in 2018 (see here a previous post by BeBeez).
London-based 2100 Ventures, a fund born in December 2022 for which Alessandro Benetton acts as anchor investor, raised 30 million euros and invested in JetHr, Autone, BonusX, and Ephos (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Andrea Casasco, Andrea Gennarini and Andrea Gurnari founded 2100 Ventures which also attracted the resources of Luca Ascani, Stefano Bernardi and Raffaele Terrone.
Luigi Berlusconi created Annapurna, a spv for a single transaction, sources said to BeBeez (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Davide Rodella is the ceo of Annapurna.
Crowdfunding platforms BacktoWork, CrowdFundMe and Rendimento Etico received the authorization to operate in Europe from Consob, the Italian stock market regularor, (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The othere Italian platforms that previously received such an authorzationa are Build Bull, Concrete Investing, Fundera, Ener2Crowd, Mamacrowd, Doorway, Yeldo Crowd, and Walliance, which also got a licence for financial intermediary.
