Sources said to BeBeez that Wellhub (fka Gympass) a provider of corporate wellbeing services acquired Italian competitor Fitprime for 50 million euros in cash and shares (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Wellhub belongs to Atomico, EQT Growth, Softbank Vision Fund, Moore Strategic Ventures, Kaszek, Valor Capital Group, General Atlantic, and further venture capital funds. Alma LED supported Vertis, Zest, IAG-Italian Angels for Growth, Club degli Investitori, Andrea Febbraio, and other business angels for selling Fitprime. Deloitte advised Wellhub. Matteo Musa (ceo), Gianluca Mozzillo (cto), Damiano Rossi (head of Sport Partnerships), and Laura Carpintieri (director of Growth Marketing & Customer Success) sold a total of 40.2% Fitprime. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Zest, Vertis 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
Italian B-Corp startup Kinsect attracted seed resources of 1 million euros from Farming Future (an Agrifood Tech vehicle of CDP Venture Capital and ToSeed & Partners), Terra Next, Agrox, and Forest Valley (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Kinsect also joined the second acceleration batch of Terra Next, CDP Venture Capital, Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center, and Cariplo Factory. Cappelli Riolo Calderaro Crisostomo Del Din & Partners (Crccd) acted as legal advisor. Giacomo Benassi, the ceo of Kinsect, said that the company will invest such resources in its proprietary tachnology and organic growth.
Flow-nano, an Italian nanomaterials startup, issued a one million euros convertible bond that Tech4Planet, a vehicle of Cdp Venture Capital, subscribed (see here a previous post by BeBeez). X-nano and ceo Laura Giorgia Rizzi created Flow-Nano in 2023. Tech4Planet’s investment will allow the company to improve further its proprietary technology. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Tech4Planet and its 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.
Normo.ai, an AI tool for accountants and tax professionals, attracted seed resources of 0.25 million euros from Fabio Nalucci, Pertile Venture and B-Heroes (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Francesco Magro, Giovanni Roberto, Nicolò Ronconi, and Paolo Saltarel founded Normo.ai which will invest such resources in its proprietary tecnhology.
Atlas AIVB Fund, a vehicle for investing in AI and cybersecurity, invested in Civils.ai (AI for construction) and Claro (AI for IT) (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Atlas AIVB belongs to Aurum (75.02%), IBL Banca (19.99%) and Miro Ventures (4.99%) and raised 10 million euros ahead of a 50 million target. Mirko Vairo and Stevan Lukic founded Singapore’s Civils.ai. Matteo Fava and Tameesh Biswas founded German Claro. Atlas AIVB also invested in Irismed, a Greek SaaS provider for the healthcare sector; USA’s medtechs Bioleap, Motley Bio, Spiraldot Health; Tilki, an UK platform for videogames publishing; and Tylo.ai, a deep-tech news and bibliography provider. Matteo Confalonieri and Vitantonio Santoro head Atlas AIVB which targets pre-seed and seed rounds of startups that received the support of venture builders such as Merantix, FoolFarm, Post Urban Ventures, Slimmer AI, and Nobody Studios.
Sources said to BeBeez that Serenis Health, a tech platform for psychologists that Silvia Wang created, aims to attract the resources of an international investor (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In 2022, 5.4 million from FG2Capital, Angelini Ventures, Azimut Digitech Fund, and Invictus Capital (a vehicle of Alberto Chalon, CDP and the European Investment Fund). Serenis has a turnover of 11.8 million, an ebitda of minus 1.5 million, net cash of 3.2 million and equity of 1.6 million.
Scientifica Venture Capital (SVC) aims to raise 200 million euros for investing in startups operating in the fields of future computing, smart materials, advanced industrym and environmental technology (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Ventiseidieci, the holding of Riccardo D’Alessandri, and LSG Ventures Limited of Patrick Leoni Sceti launched SVC that will launch a CapEx Zero investment model for supporting startups. SVC already invested in Blemishh, Aviogel, Brief, Cylock, Fluid Wire Robotics, Libera Biotech, Exolab Italia, Green Independence, OhmSpace, Omzey, Quantabrain, Recornea, Relicta, Sense4Med, Space Product and Innovation (SPiN), and Vbite.
