Italian fintech Satispay said it attracted 60 million euros from Addition, Greyhound, Lightrock, and other investors (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Block Inc (fka Square Inc), Tencent and Mediolanum Gestione Fondi previously invested in the company. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Satispay and its investors. Find out here how to subscribe for one month or one year or Click here for booking a demo videocall with BeBeez database manager
Mediaire, a provider of AI-based solutions for medical diagnostics, attracted 14 million euros from Liftt, German HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds and Austrian Gateway Ventures (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company’s founders Andreas Lemke and Jörg Döpfert said that they will invest such proceeds in its proprietary technology. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Liftt. Find out here how to subscribe for one month or one year or Click here for booking a demo videocall with BeBeez database manager
UK’s Naturbeads, a startup that developed a technology to replace plastic microbeads with biodegradable cellulose-based products, attracted 9.3 million euros from lead investor EOS Advisory, MITO Technology, Corporate Partners – CDP Venture Capital, PI-NB, Paragon Capital Management, and other investors (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Bath University Center for Sustainable Chemical Technologies’ professors Janet Scott and Davide Mattia founded Naturbeads in 2018 with the support of Giovanna Laudisio. The company will invest the raise proceeds in the construction of a manufacturing plant in the Southern Italian region of Apulia BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors MITO Technology, CDP Venture Capital and their portfolio companies. Find out here how to subscribe for one month or one year or Click here for booking a demo videocall with BeBeez database manager
Maravai LifeSciences signed an agreement for acquiring Officinae Bio’s DNA and RNA activities (see here a previous post by BeBeez). PedersoliGattai assisted Maravai. Lmcr advised Officinae Bi which belongs to Davide De Lucrezia (51%), Deepwave Ventures (17.03%), Symphony Ventures (15.33%), Autonomy Global Opportunities Master Fund (7.95%), Nucleus Capital (2.39%), Ideas Curated (2.24%), and other investors. Officinae Bio has sales of 1.4 million euros, an ebitda of minus 0.29 million euro and equity of 1.2 million.
The Techshop raised 53 million euros, above the 50 million target, for its venture capital fund from CDP Venture Capital and other investors (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Techshop will invest in Italian SaaS B2B startup with tickets of 01. – 0.5 million (pre-seed) and 0.5-1.5 million (seed).
La Fermenteria, an Italian producer of vegan cheese that Giulia Dentice di Accadia founded in 2022, attracted an investment of ParmaFood Group (PFG) (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Studio IPG Lex&Tax assisted PFG while La Fermenteria assisted Pierallini Studio Legale.
Trentino Sviluppo and Siram Veolia, an energy efficiency company that is part of French giant Gruppo Veolia, signed an agreement of 2 years for launching Green Energy Innovation Hub for supporting the sector startups (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The hub will pour up to 0.05 million euros in each project.
The shareholders of Milan-listed H-Farm aim to recapitalize the company for 15 million euros in the next five years (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company will invest such resources in its organic growth. Riccardo Donadon founded H-Farm in 2002.
Italian B-Corp Destinazione Cioccolato raised 0.54 million euors, above the 0.3 million target ahead of a hard cap of 1 million through an equity crowdfunding on Mamacrowd on the ground of a 10 million pre-money value that will end on 16 January (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Destinazione Cioccolato attracted 0.385 million from the Caporali Family, a shareholder of Italian vending machines company IVS. The company will invest such proceeds in the development of 2800 sqms experiential musuem Città del Cioccolato by 2025. Such 6 million worth project belongs to Gepafin (21.21% – and provided a temporary hybrid financing facility), Orizzonte Nove (31.52%), Bee For Impact (11.82%), Si.Fra. (7.88%), Società Cooperativa Culture (7.88%), Balance 24 (7.88%), Luca Galletti (3.94%), Vasco Gargaglia (1.97%), Confcommercio Holding (1.97%), Cna Umbria holding (1.97%), and Federazione regionale Coldiretti dell’Umbria (1.97%).
