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Berkshire's $330M Bending Spoons Bet: Its Name Was Worth More Than Its Cash #216

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This Robot Gives Surgeons Superhuman Hands - MMI raised $125M #215

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Newcleo's Nasdaq Debut: Only $31M of a $209M SPAC Showed Up. Here's Why That's Fine #214

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Exein Hits $1.7B: Italy Built a Unicorn #213

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Miro Sold at 90% Off to Bending Spoons. The Sellers Reinvested $295M. #212

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Europe's Biggest AI Round Is Mostly Debt #211

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Fewer startups, bigger cheques - H1 2026 in Italian Venture Capital #210

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Europe's €2.4 billion fusion champion is built by Italians on German Tech #209

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What Italy's €730M VC Funding Number Hides #208

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Google Built Search for Humans. Seltz Builds It for AI #207

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Why startups will fail MORE according to Anthropic #206

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Bending Spoons filed for US IPO. The Details. #205

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The Pope Just Legitimized Anthropic. Here's Why That's Significant. #204

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Did Algorithmiq Just Solve Italy's Talent Problem? #203

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Smartness vs Booking.com: The Consolidation War Begins #202

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3 Signals That Turn a "Growth Round" Into a Rescue — Casavo Hits All Three #201

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Why Pirelli, Ferrovie and CDP Just Bet €38M On Italian Robotaxis #200

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Why Bending Spoons bought Tractive? #199

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This Fund Backed a Research Project. Safran Bought It for €220M #198

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This could stop Europe’s Talent Drain to Silicon Valley. Also This Week: UpSurgeOn, Alomana #197

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Cleafy Stops Bank Fraud 15 Days BEFORE It Happens; Also: Gyala, Mirai Robotics #196

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How Eight Sleep Became an AI Health Company; Also: Tether, Isaac raising 14M; Techvisory AI #195

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Proxima: 400m on Nuclear Fusion; Axelera AI 250M Round; Agentic AI disrupting SaaS #194

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Contents raised €7M: orchestration beats AI models; Italian Incentives freeze #193

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Inside Newcleo’s MOX-Fuel SMR Bet: Turning Nuclear Waste Into Power #192

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CrowdFundMe becomes a startup and SME financing player; TeamSystem in Spain; Genenta evolves #191

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110M for D-Orbit changing space logistics, BRUM, ITA VC Report 2025 #190

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AI Materials Discovery Is the Real Engine Behind Climate Tech Innovation #189

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Inside Italy’s 2025 VC Data: Growth, AI, Robotics, and Institutional Power #188

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DeepTech in Italy is holding strong; Scale Up Debt as Source of Funding? #187

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Bending Spoons and Shop Circle: Are Credit Deals Beating Venture Capital?; LLM Executing #186

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Biocentis raising 11M, Finapp, Keen Ventures EU Defense Fund #185

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Italy Surpassing 1B in Startup Investing, Nexi received TPG offer - #184

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Inside Bending Spoons’ $11B Play; Hercle: $10M + Powering Stablecoin Settlement - #183

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Caracol raising $40M; Maia Ventures closing 55M new foodtech fund #182

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The Open-Hardware Deal No One Expected; Cyberwave, Eoliann, Italian Pension Funds and VC? #181

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Vertical AI wins: Lexroom. Also: Serenis, Lupa and State of Italian VC - Oct 7, 2025 #180

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Are European VCs Quietly Matching U.S. DPI? The New Data Says Yes - Sep 30, 2025 #179

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Bending Spoons: 500M in Debt + Vimeo Acquisition Explained ; Nozomi; ShopCircle- Sept 23, 2025 #178

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Exein Built a Digital Immune System for 1 Billion Devices, Tulum, Nuclidium - July 22, 2025 #177

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Sibill Disrupting Italian Accounting, ZNEXT launching a 60M Initiative, LIFTT - July 1, 2025 #176

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JetHR Making Payroll Sexy, Vikey Acquired, Investor-Founder Match - June 25, 2025 #175

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AI Index Outperforms FTSE Italy. Also: Nova raising 3.2M, DataMasters - June 17, 2025 #174

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Moneyfarm vs. Satispay: Is It a Fintech Arms Race? Also: Wetacoo, Novaterra - June 3rd, 2025 #173

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Open Banking in Italy: what you need to know - News: BKN301, IAMA - April 24, 2025 #172

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Europe’s $200B AI Bet? Latest Rounds in Medtech and Robotics - April 15, 2025

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Did Micromobility Just Make a Comeback? Blubrake 12M Round, Covision Media, Axyon AI - April 8, 2025

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Bending Spoon 4.6B Valuation Decoded, CamGraPhIC, Italian Founders Fund - April 1, 2025

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Network Graph of the Italian VC Ecosystem , Bending Spoons + Komoot, Il Foglio AI - March 26, 2025

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Valo Therapeutics Oy, Lexroom.AI, Vento 75M fund - March 18, 2025

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'Mini' Corporate Venture: Samer and Nlcomp, Valuematic, Axelera AI and Techstars - March 11, 2025

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ShopCircle and Unified B2B Platforms , Arsenale Bioyards raising 10M, Bancomat - March 4, 2025

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Enea Tech and Biomedical, Approxima, VST, Latest report in VC - February 25, 2025

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Akamas: AI that Optimizes Cloud, Tethis , Krill Design, Vitruvian-1 - February 19, 2025

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This Personality Trait Helps Founders Raise Millions: A Deep Dive

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Never Buy Another Device: Subbyx; Tensive; Indigo AI - February 5, 2025

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High-Debt pre-seed: Qomodo. Also: Faba , Complaion and more! - January 28, 2025

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Italian VC investing abroad, Bikeflip, Algebris Climatech, Colosseum 355B - Jan 21, 2025

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EssilorLuxottica acquired Pulse; Wellhub acquired Fitprime; New VC in 2024 - January 17, 2025

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Inside the $5 Billion MoneyFarm Expansion, AutoConnexa, iGenius and Sovereign AI - December 12, 2024

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Bending Spoons Paid Millions for a Cloud Video Pioneer, Volta, Reefilla - December 4, 2024

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Cardo AI and the role of PE in AI, Eye2Drive, Kong - November 26, 2024

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Startup growth strategy: the back-expansion, Naturbeads, Rubedo, Techshop - November 19, 2024

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Satispay raising 60M: a deep dive , Restorative Tech , Primo Capital - Nov 12, 2024

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2024 Accel’s Euroscape; Tau group on magnet wires, Cyber Guru raising 20M - November 5, 2024

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XFarm raises 36M, AIKO Space, AI in 2024 - October 15, 2024

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TrueLayer killing credit cards, Inventio, Foreverland and its carob chocolate - October 9, 2024

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D-Orbit closing a 150M Series C, JetHR raising 12M, Data Masters: AI education - October 1, 2024

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TravelTech Revamp, PE Helping VCs, A new life for blockchain? - September 27, 2024

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Is AI-Powered Corporate Learning the Future of Employee Upskilling? - September 20, 2024

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SkillVue, Involve Space, IdentifAi raised funding; Buddyfit acquired - September 12th, 2024

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Bending Spoons acquires WeTransfer; Wise and brain-machine interface; Rotonium - August 7, 2024

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HBI and CDP Green Transition Fund, Atlas SGR, Contents, Mondadori - July 30, 2024

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Nextalia raising 150M, Primo Climate, Rancilio Cube 2, Cubbit, Satispay, latest M&A - July 23, 2024

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Muffin raising 3.2M, Axelera AI and edge AI, Terna and M&A Activity - July 5, 2024

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Avaneidi raising 8M, Exor investing in Sava, 2024 H1 in VC - June 25, 2024

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iGenius, Aidexa, Italian Founders Fund - June 18, 2024

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BetaGlue Technologies, Sibill, Prem AI raise capital. Unruly dashboard. Italia 9B - June 12, 2024

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Revolv.space raising 2.6M, Zefi.ai, Rialto 55M fund - June 6, 2024

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Futura raising 14M, Loquis, Checksig, Glaut AI - May 15, 2024

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Cryptosmart, BOEM, Lithium Lasers, Ecosmic - May 2, 2024

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Cosmico, Liftt, Visma, Q1 2024 in Italian Startups - April 24, 2024

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Tes Pharma, Proxima Fusion, Bending Spoons acquiring StreamYard, CDP VC plan - April 16, 2024

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BookRepublic raising 1.5M, NExT, Amalia Care, CAC Payback and Churn - April 9, 2024

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Casavo raising 19M, Nouscom, Quantonation, DataKrypto and homomorphic encryption - April 3, 2024

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1B to AI Investments from CDP, Wesii, Cynomys, Nozomi rasing 100M, Zest - March 19, 2024

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Kurbs Orbital raising 3.7M, WAO, This Unique, Bending Spoons and Vimeo?, GP Staking - March 13, 2024

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Akuis, 150M for AI and Cybersecurity, H-Farm Delisting - March 5, 2024

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Medical Microinstruments, Superfluid, 3DNextech - February 28, 2024

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Gabriele Venturi - PandasAI, Open Source models, defensibility and what is next in AI

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Daze raising 15M, Bending Spoons 155M round - will they IPO? Feb 20, 2024

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Sealence raising 7.5M, Underscore District, Addax, Sella Venture Partners FoF - February 13, 2024

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Bending Spoons preparing to raise 200M, Tau Group, Zucchetti and Safilo - February 6, 2024

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K-Sport World raised €5m, Axyon AI, Doorway, Italian LLMs - January 30, 2023

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FTNet, SPiN, Panakes Partners, Lendit and Winelivery - January 23, 2024

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D-Orbit closes 100M, Contents.com raises 18M, Sqim, Indigo.ai - January 16, 2023

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Resalis Therapetutics raising 10M, Vitesy, Algor Education, Excellis, IH1 - January 9, 2024

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Italy hitting 926M in 2023 in startup investing, Unobravo raising from Northzone - December 19, 2023

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How Generative AI is Revolutionizing Investment Management | Tommaso Migliore, Co-Founder MDOTM Ltd

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WeRoad raising 18M, Soplaya raising 12.5M, Banxware, Ammagamma - December 5, 2023