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Aptadir Therapeutics secured a seed round of 40 million euros that UK’s 4BIO Capital led and EXTEND (CDP Venture Capital, Angelini Ventures and Evotec), CDP Venture Capital – Digital Transition; Indaco Venture Partners, Xgen Ventures, Bio Lombardia FundCE-Ventures (European Fund for Regional Development), Angelini Ventures, Kerna Ventures, Italian Angels for Biotech, and Club degli Investitori – Simon Fiduciaria joined (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Annalisa Di Ruscio, Daniel Tenen, Vittorio de Franciscis, Giovanni Amabile, and Marcin Kortylewski founded Aptadir in 2023. Dima Kuzmin is a managing partner of 4BIO Capital. Claudia Pingue is the chairwoman of EXTEND.
Underdogs attracted 20 million euros from Nextalia Ventures (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company retained CII3 Advisors and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Nextalia received assistance from Grant Thornton and Giovannelli e Associati. Andrea Tommaso D‘Aietti and Mattia Boldrin are the founders of Underdogs which will invest the raised proceeds in European acquisitions of software houses and developers of solutions for DataTech, MarTech and AdTech with their proprietary architecture. Federico Lonoce is a partner and co-head of Nextalia Ventures, a vehicle of Nextalia, the firm that Francesco Canzonieri created and for which Attilio Mazzilli and Lucio De Costanzo co-head the Investment team, Fiammetta Mataloni acts as Investment director, Federico Valla as Investment analyst, and Vladimir Pacheny as head of business development. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Nextalia and its investments. Find out here how to subscribe for one month or one year or Click here for booking a demo videocall with BeBeez database manager
TextYess attracted 4 million euros seed resources from lead investor Italian Founders Fund (IFF), VC Partners and Entourage (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company will invest such proceeds in its organic growth and international expansion starting from the United Kingdon. In September 2025, TextYess raised 2.4 million from VC Partners, Entourage, Angel Invest Ventures, and other business angels. Riccardo Russo (ceo) and Edvaldo Gjonikaj (cto) founded the company in 2023 and attracted 0.45 million US Dollars from Exor Seeds/Exor Ventures, Club degli Investitori, Delirus Capital, Moonstone Fund, Raffaele Terrone, Marco Porcaro, Riccardo Schiavotto, Francesco Zaccariello, and Marco Di Pietro.
QSENSATO raised one million euros through a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) that Quantonation and Deep Ocean Capital subscribed (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In May 2025, the company attracted a 0.5 million pre-seed investment from LIFTT and Quantum Italia, a partnership of Scientifica Venture Capital and Quantonation. Gianvito Lucivero, Annalisa Volpe and Domenico Tulli founded QSENSATO. Christophe Jurczak is a managing partner of Quantonation. Emilia Garito is the chairwoman of Deep Ocean Capital. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors QSENSATO 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
Billding secured a 0.53 million euros round in which Alberto Dalmasso, Dario Brignone, Daniele Ratti, Alberto Mazzetti, Giuliano Messina, Umberto Lentini, Alessandro Cillario, and Michelangelo Bottesini invested (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Nicolò Sozzi (ceo), Alessandro Ferraro (cco), Pinò Surace (cto), and Daniele Pareyson founded Billding in 2022.
