In 2025, startups and scaleups based in Italy or with Italian founders secured 293 rounds (287 in 2024) worth in the region of 5.9 billion euros (below 1.8 billion). Download here the BeBeez Venture Capital Report 2025 with the details of the rounds. CB Insights said that 2025 global rounds were worth 469.3 billion US Dollars and 319.6 billion in 2024. Download here the BeBeez Venture 2024 Capital Report and BeBeez Venture Capital Report for 1H25 available for the subscribers to BeBeez News Premium and BeBeez Private Data.
German AI-based robotic scaleup RobCo attracted 100 million US Dollars from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Exor – Lingotto Innovation (lead investors), Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif, and The Friedkin Group (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company will invest such proceeds in its expansion in Europe and USA. Roman Hölzl is the ceo and founder of RobCo which raised a total of 160 million since its birth. Alexander Schmitt is a partner of Lightspeed. Morgan Samet is the co-head of Lingotto Innovation. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Lingotto Innovation 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
Nasdaq-listed Genenta Science, an Italian biotech that Luigi Naldini, Pierluigi Paracchi, Bernhard Gentner, and Ospedale San Raffaele (8% owner) founded in 2014, said it will hold a shareholder meeting on 25-26 March, Wednesday – Thursday, rebrand as Saentra Forge and become an industrial consolidator in the biotechnology, defence, aerospace and national security sectors (press release, SEC file and investors presentation) (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company has available resources of 33 million US Dollars and aims to acquire a majority stake in companies with an EBITDA of up to 5 million euros. However, investors did not appreciate such intentions. Genenta managers strategic shareholder Fondazione Prexidia aim to make the firm a perpetual compounder (see here the BeBeez Magazine n. 38 cover story). Paracchi and Giuseppe Orsi launched Prexidia. Genenta is going to acquire 19.5% of Armi Tattiche Custom – ATC, an Italian weapons producer that currently belongs to Marco Spiga (60%), Mattia Berardinetti (35%) and Gioacchino Specchi (5%). The buyer will invest 1.275 million euros in a capital increase ahead of subscribing the right to pay a further 5.1 million and own 51% of ATC upon the achievement of targets. Paracchi shared such a strategy with BeBeez Magazine in September 2025. Genenta previously attracted the resources of CDP Venture Capital while Enea Tech subscribed to a 20 million euros bond for financing oncological products. These investors have not yet agreed with Genenta’s change of strategy.
ArteOlio Società Agricola, a scaleup producer of extra virgin olive oil that belongs to Verteq Capital, secured a 3 million euros capital increase for financing the purchase and planting of an additional 110 hectares of modern, sustainable and organic olive groves in the Tuscan Maremma (see here a previous post by BeBeez). ArteOlio has available resources of 45 million which include facilities that Banco BPM, Intesa Sanpaolo, BPER Banca, Banca Tema, ICCREA Banca, and ChiantiBanca previously provided. Riccardo Schiatti and Augusto Lippi founded ArteOlio in 2019. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Verteq 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
