CarpeCarbon, a startup for CO2 capturing, attracted pre-seed facilities of 1.75 million euros from Tech4Planet, PiemonteNext (both part of CDP Venture Capital), 360 Capital, Club degli Investitori, and Finpiemonte (see here a previous post by BeBeez). LCA Studio Legale assisted CDP Venture Capital. Giuliano Antoniciello, Federico Antoniciello, Chiara D’Adamo, Giovanni Ulfo, and Edoardo Monaco founded CarpeCarbon which will invest such raised proceeds in its organic growth and joining the Business Creation of PoliHub.
Immobiliallasta.it, the Italian portal of Italian proptech Reviva for auctioning distressed real estate assets, will launch an equity crowdfunding campaign on Mamacrowd as part of a 2.5 million euros fundraisign target that launched in December 2022 (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Reviva already attracted 0.5 million in late 2022 from its current owners Ivano De Natale, Giulio Licenza, other investors, and Invitalia. This campaing will allow investors to acquire equity with a 15% discount under early bird conditions (3 million reduction on the enterprise value).
Prestigious Hollywood’s director Oliver Stone will be in Turin, Bologna and Rome between 2 and 4 December, Friday and Saturday, for presenting his documentary Nuclear Now with Stefano Buono, the founder of newcleo (see here a previous post by BeBeez).
On 15 December, Friday, Assintel-Confcommercio will launch the call for Assintel Digital Awards 2024, an annual contest for ICT startups in the fields of Artificial intelligence, Blockchain and Cybersecurity (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In March 2024, the jury will announce the startups shortlisted for the final round and later the three winners. In April 2024, Assintel Report speciale Startup will reward the best projects with services or conventions with the award’s sponsors Grenke, Intesa Sanpaolo, TIM, and Open Gate.
Fleap (fka Sanbox), a provider of blockchain-based corporate services that received the incubation support of Polihub and the investment of Banca Valsabbina, said it launched Fleap Holding, a blockchain-based investment vehicle (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Furhter partners of Fleap Holding are Integrae sim and Milan-listed Azimut which launched Digital Equity Italy and invested in Fleap that also belongs to Thomas Iacchetti (ceo – 15.86%), Paolo Bucciol (cmo – 11.16%) and Banca Valsabbina (32%).
Italian fintech regtech Aptus.AI said that it attracted pre-series A resources of 3 million euros from lead investor P101, CDP Venture Capital (through Fin+Tech) and other business angels (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Andrea Tesei (ceo) and Lorenzo De Mattei (cto) founded the company that will invest such proceeds in its organic growth.
In 2023, fintech firms based in Italy or with Italian founders raised little less than 200 million euros, BeBeez Private Data says while in 2022 26 startups attracted 1.049 billion in 28 rounds (see here the BeBeez Fintech Venture Capital Report 2022 available for the subscribers to BeBeez News Premium and BeBeez Private Data, see here the BeBeez Fintech Report 2021) (see here a previous post by BeBeez). However, the whole venture capital sector dropped (see here the BeBeez Venture Capital Report 1H23 and see here the BeBeez Venture Capital Report 2022).
