Akamas raised 10 million euros from lead investor United Ventures (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company provides AI-based solutions for cloud optimization. Moviri previously had 80.19% of Akamas and now owns a minority. Luca Forni, ceo, and Stefano Doni, cto, are the founders of the firm that will invest the raise proceeds in its organic development. Fabio Pirovano is a partner of United Ventures.
Krill Design closed a 6 million euros series A round that attracted the resources of Algebris Investments, Primo Capital (fka Primo Ventures) and Crédit Agricole Italia (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Ivan Calimani (80%), Martina Lamperti (10%) and Yack Humberto Di Maio (10%) founded the company in 2018. Krill Design will invest such resources in its organic development. Marco Turchini is a managing partner of Algebris Climatech. Giusy Cannone is a partner of Primo Climate. Andrea Riva heads the open innovation unit of Crédit Agricole Italia which poured in this deal part of the resources that received from NextGenerationEU.
TimeFlow, a B2B marketplace for IT services and solutions, attracted a financing facility of 4 million euros from the resources of NextGenerationEU, Vertis, Azimut Eltif Venture Capital ALIcrowd, Azimut Venture Capital Digitech Europe, and X-Equity which received the strategic support of FNDX (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company raised more than 2.3 million on the ground of a pre-money value of 8 million, through an equity crowdfunding campaign on Mamacrowd that ended in late January 2025. Furthermore, CDP Venture Capital, Growth Engine and Duccio Vitali converted in TimeFlow’s equity the 0.625 million worth facilities that previously provided. Growth Capital assisted the company that joined A-Road, an acceleration and fundraising programme. Lorenzo Danese, Gianmarco Ferrante, Iacopo Albanese, and Federico Patrioli founded TimeFlow in 2020.
Mespac, a spinoff of Turin Polytechnic for the meta oceanic data, attracted 1.5 million euros from Galaxia, CDP Venture Capital, Axon Partners Group, COREangels Climate, and Piemonte Next – FinPiemonte (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company will invest such proceeds in the development of its proprietary algorithms and in shortening the time-to-market for its products. Andrea Gulisano, ceo, Giorgia Cervelli, head of Ocean Science, Giuseppe Giorgi, cto, and Edoardo Pasta, head of Data Science & AI, founded the company in 2022. Claudia Pingue heads the Technology Transfer Fund of CDP Venture Capital. Mario Alparone is the coo of Finpiemonte. Álvaro Pascual is a senior investment associate of Axon Partners Group.
AIKO, an Italian provider of AI solutions for the space sector, attracted 0.520 million euros from Club degli Investitori through Simon Fiduciaria (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The transaction is part of a Series A round for which the company already raised 4 million ahead of a 5 million target. AIKO raised 7 million since its birth and will invest such proceeds in its organic growth and international growth. Giorgio Albano and Lorenzo Feruglio (ceo) founded the company in 2017. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Club degli Investitori 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
Fruitful AI, a Swiss startup for the industrial computer vision sector that cco Alberto Cedenese, ceo Patrick Albrecht and cto Thomas Kleiven founded in 2021, attracted an undisclosed amount of seed resources from MFL Group and Hatteland Group (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In 2022, the company raised 0.5 million CHF. Fruitful AI will invest the last round resources in its organic development.
LimoLane, a scaleup B2B platform for renting cars with drivers, acquired Asia Car Service (ACS), a provider of mobility services that helps USA and Europe companies to choose Asian operators (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Gianni&Origoni assisted LimoLane. In July 2024, LimoLane raised 35 million euros from Cherry Bay Capital Group, FG2 Capital and other investors. Fabio Nalucci is the company’s founder and said that he is interested in further international acquisitions.
