Mediobanca’s consumer finance arm Compass acquired Italy’s Soisy and 19.5% of Swiss HeidiPay, two BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) firms (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Gian Luca Sichel is the ceo of Compass. These acquisitions will not impact Mediobanca’s Core Tier 1.
CDP Venture Capital has further 3.5 billion euros (on top of the previous 1.8 billion) for boosting the growth of the venture capital sector in Italy (see here a previous post by BeBeez). CDP Venture capital aims to attract 9 billion of resources from international and domestic investors for Italian startups and scaleups.
In 3Q22, Italian startups and scaleups attracted 1.7 billion euros for 250 deals from domestic and international venture capital funds, said a report of Osservatorio Venture Capital Monitor – VeM, a research centre of AIFI and Liuc – Università Cattaneo that received the support of Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, E. Morace & Co. Studio legale, CDP Venture Capital, and IBAN (see here a previous post by BeBeez). BeBeez ReportVenture Capital Q3 2022 available for the subscribers to BeBeez News Premium and BeBeez Private Data, the Database that BeBeez developed with FSI. C’è però un livello di concentrazione dei deal molto alto: se si considerano soltanto i round da 10 milioni di euro in su, se ne contano soltanto 35 sul totale di 220 mappati nei 9 mesi, per una raccolta complessiva di oltre 2,14 miliardi di euro.
Bridge, an online logistic company, raised 1.5 million euros from lead investor Azimut Libera Impresa SGR on behalf of Digitech Fund, a vehicle that Gellify manages (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Bridge also attracted the resources of Exor Seeds. Stefano Asperti founded the company in 2021 with Luca Petrone and the ceo Simone Quarta. Bridge previously poured 92,000 seed resources in the company
Club degli Investitori said that in 3Q22 closed investments for 12 million euros, +50% yoy (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Club degli Investitori closed 7 new investments and 11 follow on.
Tulips, an online grocery store, is about to raise 2 million euros with the round scheduled to close by 30 November, Wednesday (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Sources said to BeBeez that the company attracted 1.5 million from a financial holding. In 2022, Tulips raised 6 million
Salimbeni Profumi, a digital brand for personal perfumes and room fragrances that Mario Giglioli and Roberto Zuccato founded, attracted 1.4 million euros Luiss Alumni 4 Growth (LA4G), the Investment Club of LuissAlumni and other investors (see here a previous post by BeBeez).
Kairos Ventures ESG One, part of Julius Bär subsidiary Kairos, invested in Materia Medica Processing (MMP), a developer of cannabis-based drugs (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Roberto Zanco and Elisa Schembari head Kairos Venture who acted as lead investor for this round of 2.2 million euros. Giovanni Isoldi, Gerardo Di Francesco and Caroline Valois founded MMP in 2018. The company received the support of Italian bioincubator Toscana Life Sciences.
Blacksheep MadTech Fund (fka Blacksheep Ventures), an investor in digital marketing and digital advertising that Umberto Bottesini heads, poured 2 million euros in Roibox, a Latvian company (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Roibox, a marketing and advertising data, will strengthen its presence in Italy, UK, Germany and USA and expand in other areas in view of generating sales of 3 million.
Qodeup, a startup publisher of QRcode software for restaurants, raised 2.5 million euros from lead investor Techshop Primo, Food Brand, and sector business angels (See here a previous post by BeBeez). Fabio Marniga and Stefano Allegra founded Qodeup in 2019 with the support of B4i – Bocconi for innovation, the startup accelerator of Milan’s Bocconi University.
