Download here the BeBeez Venture 2024 Capital Report available for the subscribers to BeBeez News Premium and BeBeez Private Data.
Nova Talent, a digital network for professionals, attracted 3.2 million euros from CDP Venture Capital, BY Venture Partners and Doha Tech Angels (see here a previous post by BeBeez). LCA advised CDP while Bird & Bird assisted Nova, a company that ceo Andrea Marino, Ramón Rodrigáñez and Lars-Henrik Friis Molin founded in 2020. In 2021, the startup raised 0.524 million through an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. Nova will invest the raised proceeds in its international expansion, its proprietary technology and in the development of Nova Recruiter, a SaaS B2B platform. Laura Scaramella is the head of ServiceTech for Fondo Corporate Partners I – CDP Venture Capital.
Italian fintech startup Perpethua, a B-corp that developed a platform for SMEs with generational issues and investors, attracted a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) financing of 0.5 million euros from Exor, Banca Patrimoni Sella, Giuseppe Recchi, Andrea Giardino, and Lorenzo Calcagni (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Tobia Piovesan, an alumnus of PwC and BIP, and Pavlo Gjonikaj, a former Deloitte consultant, founded Perpethua in 2024 and will invest the raised proceeds in the firm’s proprietary technology and in building an ecosystem for m&a professionals that target Italian SMEs with revenues of 2 – 25 million.
