Vincenzo Macaione, the founder of Wopta Assicurazioni, an insurtech startup to support businesses and professionals, finalized a 4.1 million euros Series A round (see here a previous post by BeBeez). As part of this round, the club deal, Asset Plus, which includes Holding B3 (Calzedonia Group), the Macchi family, the Cammi family, Ettore Riello, Davide Parenti, Massimo Ambrosini, and Cristina Parodi will enter the capital. These new investors join CNA – Confederazione Nazionale Artigiani, Key Capital Venture, Cordifin Spa, and Carlo Fagioli. The company also pre-announced the next Series B round and released its results for 2023, which ended with 1.4 million in revenues and over 3 million in premiums brokered.
Gruppo Tecno, a Neapolitan firm specializing in consulting services in the area of strategic sustainability and carbon-energy management, a partner company of Intesa San Paolo in the ESG Lab, Sustainable Finance partner of Euronext and Sustainable Partner of Elite, acquired Ergo, a spin-off of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa established in 2006 that provides innovative services and solutions in the area of sustainable transformation (see here a previous post by BeeBeez). Grimaldi Alliance advised Tecno Group, PedersoliGattai assisted the sellers. Intesa Sanpaolo financed the transaction. Giovanni Lombardi founded Tecno.
Starting Finance, a financial education platform for under-35s, closed a 2.5 million euros round which include equity and hybrid instruments (see here a previous post by BeeBeez). Vertis subscribed to a 1.5 million capital increase. Starting Finance retained Plusiders and Studio Consulting34. Vertis hired Grimaldi Alliance and Pirola, Pennuto, Zei e Associati.
Fabbrica Italiana Telai (FTI), a startup that belongs to Exept, an innovative SME that owns a patent for the production of custom-made carbon frames for monocoque racing bikes, received a 4 million USD, 24-month direct lending venture debt facility from British private credit operator APG (fka Aluna Partners) (see here a previous post by BeeBeez). LawaL Legal & Tax Advisory acted as deal counsel. Alessio Rebagliati, Alessandro Giusto and Wolfgang Turainsky founded Except in 2014 and cashed in a 0.5 million investment round in April 2022 that Fondo Rilancio Startup (CDP Venture Capital) underwritten. Stefano Sciacca and Victor Rivera are the managing directors of APG.
