FTnet, the startup that developed the Italian digital drug distribution platform Fdirect, raised 3 million euros from friends & family (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Marco Di Tonto and Stefano Beltrame founded the company in 2021. In 2022, FTnet raised 3 million. The company will invest all such proceeds in its organic consolidation.
Jampy, a startup that developes eco-friendly pet wellness products, raised pre-seed resources of one million euros from lead investor 360 Capital, Nicola Drago, Claudio Bellinzona, and Fabio Zecchini (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Rosa Scelsa and Federica Signoriello founded Jampy in 2022.
Italian innovative sme 1Control, a developer of smart access systems, raised one million euros from CDP Venture Capital (0.5 million) and AliCrowd (part of AZ Eltif, a vehicle of Azimut Investments, a firm that Azimut Libera Impresa manages) (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In 2015, Francesco Sarasini founded the business that in 2022 raised less than one million through an equity crowdfunding on Mamacrowd on the ground of a pre-money value of 6.5 million.
Milan-listed IT company TXT e-Solutions acquired 51% of Arcan, an Italian SaaS B2B startup that Darius Sas and ceo Ilaria Pigazzini (both PhDs) created (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Eptalex Garzia Gasperi & Partners assisted Arcan which previously received the acceleration support of Leonardo and LVenture Group through Business Innovation Factory.
Italian spirits e-commerce platform Winelivery acquired Become Somm, an online community that Simone Ingrassia founded for supporting the persons that aim to become sommelier (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Francesco Magro is the ceo Winelivery and founded the business in 2016 with Andrea Antinori.
Madrid-based Playtomic, a tool for booking tennis and padel courts, acquired SportClubby, an Italian competitor that Biagio Bartoli and Stefano De Amici founded (see here a previous post by BeBeez). SportClubby has sales of 0.596 million euros, an ebitda of minus 0.714 million, a net financial debt of 0.245 million, and equity of 0.62 million.
Italian-British nuclear energy scaleup newcleo, a company that Stefano Buono founded, signed a strategic and industrial partnership with NAAREA (Nuclear Abundant Affordable Resourceful Energy for All), a French competitor that Jean-Luc Alexandre and Ivan Gavriloff founded in 2020 (see here a previous post by BeBeez). NAAREA and newcleo will develop together solutions for the French ecosystem for nuclear energy.
ClubDeal, the owner of ClubDealOnline.com, an Italian equity crowdfunding platform for High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs), family office and institutional investors, appointed the founder Antonio Chiarello as ceo (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Chiarello previously worked for Intesa Sanpaolo, where he has been instrumental for the launch of Neva. The ceo of ClubDeal also worked for Marzotto Sim as ceo, UBS Alternative Investments as coo and founded Colliers (fka Antirion).
In 2023, market participants announced 327 venture capital rounds worth above 1.5 billion euros that involved startups based in Italy or with Italian founders (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In 3Q23, announced rounds were 264 for little above one billion (see here the BeBeez Venture Capital Report for 3Q23 available for the subscribers to BeBeez News Premium and BeBeez Private Data). In 2022, investors and startups annoinced 339 deals for 2.57 billion (see here the BeBeez Venture Capital Report 2022 and see here the report with all tables and links to the stories)
