The Milan-listed data company will invest €150,000 in EdiBeez and develop a new generation of agentic AI-based tools for private market analysis.
by Stefania Peveraro
Founder and Chairman of EdiBeez srl
Editor-in-Chief of BeBeez and BeBeez International
Dear readers,
I am very happy to announce that the board of directors of Metriks AI spa, a Milan-based data company listed on Euronext Growth Milan market, specializing in the development of data-driven B2B solutions powered by artificial intelligence, approved yesterday the signing of a binding commitment for a 150,000 euro investment in the larger capital increase that will soon be launched by EdiBeez srl, BeBeez‘s publishing company (see the press release here).
Metriks AI will therefore become a shareholder of EdiBeez, joining the founding members and investors who have believed in this project over time, many of whom are BeBeez and BeBeez International readers before becoming shareholders. All this is based on a pre-money valuation of EdiBeez of approximately 2.08 million euros, equal to the post-money valuation of the previous round in 2024 (see a previous article by BeBeez).
The transaction is part of a strategic partnership with Metriks AI that will allow us to transform BeBeez Private Data, BeBeez’s private capital database, into an AI-native platform. And this is the really great news.
When I founded BeBeez in 2013, the goal was simple: to create the information reference point for those operating in Italian private capital. I wanted to build a platform capable of reporting, day after day, on the transactions, players, and dynamics of a market that at the time was still relatively under-covered by the general media.
Over the years, that project has grown. BeBeez has become the reference specialized publication for the Italian private capital community, which reads us and meets at our in-depth and networking events. At the same time, our BeBeez Private Data platform has grown to the point where it is now probably the most comprehensive and deep database dedicated to Italian private capital. Every day, private equity funds, venture capital, private debt, banks, advisors, law firms, consulting firms, and institutional investors use our information to understand the market, identify opportunities, and make decisions.
But in recent months, it has become increasingly clear that we are entering a new phase. Artificial intelligence isn’t simply changing the way content is produced. It’s changing the way we access knowledge, interrogate data, and make decisions. It’s a transformation that affects every sector, and inevitably affects ours as well.
Just yesterday, in an interesting report from the headquarters of Shanghai Media Group, il Sole 24 Ore newspaper reported how AI is redefining the very role of publishing companies in China. Media is no longer just a content producer: it is becoming a platform for economic intelligence, where data, algorithms, and content coexist within a single information ecosystem. A concept that struck me because it’s exactly the direction we’re headed, naturally on a different scale and with a very specific specialization: private markets.
We built BeBeez as a place where editorial insights, community, and private capital data meet, a model that didn’t exist in Italy. Now we’re taking the next step: bringing agentic artificial intelligence to the center of this platform. This isn’t just a technological upgrade; it’s a paradigm shift in the way funds, advisors, and private capital operators access information and make decisions.
That’s why, in the coming months, we’ll be working to enable our users to interact with BeBeez’s entire information assets in natural language. Imagine being able to ask the platform directly about the most significant acquisitions in the last five years, which funds have invested in a specific sector, which targets might be interesting for a buy-and-build strategy, or how multiples have evolved in a given industry. And imagine getting a structured response in just a few seconds, without having to build complex queries or navigate thousands of records. In other words, BeBeez will evolve from a consultation platform to a fully-fledged decision-making tool.
The choice of technology partner was not accidental. Metriks AI was founded and led by Tiziano Cetarini, an entrepreneur I know and whose vision I appreciate: he is behind the successful exit from the fintech startup Netfintech, a digital aggregator of financial solutions for SMEs known under the brand Change Capital (see here a previous article by BeBeez), which was then acquired by the Teamsystem group in 2024 (see here a previous article by BeBeez).
Now Mr. Cetarini, with his new venture Metriks AI, is building a data and AI ecosystem around Italian businesses. A few days ago, he signed an agreement with the data company Sevendata to build a proprietary data infrastructure dedicated to SMEs, with the aim of integrating certified economic-financial, corporate, and employment information into the AI agents developed by Metriks. The project specifically aims to create a unified, API-first information layer, usable for credit intelligence, risk management, competitive intelligence, automated counterparty onboarding, and advanced business intelligence applications (see here a previous article by BeBeez). Sevendata will provide Metriks with information derived from primary institutional sources and certified validation processes, natively integrated into the Metriks Suite platform and also distributed in co-branded mode.
Similarly, BeBeez Private Data will also be integrated as a native module within Metriks Suite through a dedicated API layer, opening a new distribution channel to Metriks’ enterprise customer base and multiplying its commercial reach.
I believe that the combination of the editorial and information assets built by BeBeez in over 13 years of activity and the artificial intelligence skills developed by Metriks can truly represent a disruptive opportunity.
Of course, journalism remains at the heart of the project. Artificial intelligence does not replace the work of those who gather information, verify sources, build relationships, and interpret complex phenomena. But it can become an extraordinary tool to amplify the value of that work, making information more accessible, more timely, and more useful for decision-makers.
Our job has never been simply to publish news. It has always been to help market participants understand what’s really happening, going far beyond press releases. But today we have tools that can help us do all this in a much more powerful way than was imaginable just a few years ago.
It’s an exciting challenge. We’ll be talking about it a lot in the coming months. And we will certainly be discussing it on December 1st in Milan, at Palazzo Mezzanotte, during The State of Private Markets 2026, our annual event dedicated to Italian private capital, which will conclude with the BeBeez Private Capital Gala.
See you there.
Stay tuned!
Stefania
