Italy’s private equity and venture capital funds top 5.7 bn euros in fundraising in 2021. A new record in investments, but most is due to the Autostrade deal. Here are AIFI-PwC’s 2021 statistics

by Francesca Vercesi e Giuliano Castagneto There was a great recovery of private equity and venture capital activities in Italy in 2021 compared to 2020, both on the investment front and on the funding and the divestments side, a trend that was already clear at the end of the first half of the year (see here a previous article by BeBeez). This is what emerges from the analysis made by AIFI (Italian Association of Private Equity, Venture Capital and Private Debt), in collaboration with PwC Italia - Deals, on the Italian risk capital market, presented yesterday in streaming by the AIFI general manager Anna Gervasoni and PWC Deals partner Francesco Giordano (see the press release here and the presentation here). A picture of recovery that h