MiScusi, PokeHouse, Kampaay, Axelera AI, Angelini Ventures and Stellantis Ventures - May 29, 2023

The Week in Italian Startup - A podcast by Giacomo Mollo

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MiScusi, a fresh pasta restaurant chain, 🇮🇹raised €10m from Mip, Picus, Kitchen Fund, Amundi, and Gaetano Marzotto. Kampaay, an event tech startup, announced a €7.3m round from 360cp, SG Company, and Gellify. Poke House, a poke restaurant chain, 🇮🇹raised an undisclosed amount in a round including Red Circle Investments. Dscovr, a customer insights startup, raised €2m from Azimut Digitech, Exor, Bonsai Ventures, IAG, Growth Engine. Future Fashion 🇮🇹raised €1.5m in equity and debt from SICI. Blogmeter was 🇮🇹acquired by Shibumi Group. Bizplace was 🇮🇹acquired by Alchimia investments. White Bridge investments 🇮🇹launched a bid for Reevo, a listed cybersecurity company, at €17.6 per share. Three Hills Capital Partners 🇮🇹signed an agreement to acquire Digital360, a listed media company. Newcleo announced a €3Bn investment plan in France. Angelo Moratti 🇮🇹invested as an LP in Sound Ventures, Ashton Kutchner’s fund focusing on AI. AngeList: “After 18 Months, Your Investment Probably Isn’t Getting Marked Up“ ROAD, the Rome Advanced District, was 🇮🇹inaugurated last week. Eni, Acea, and others among the partners. Primo Ventures announced a strategic partnership with Lifegate. Axelera AI, a Netherlands-based startup designing microprocessing units for edge AI, raised an additional USD$ 23m into its Series A round from CDP VC and Verve Ventures. Newtwen, a digital twin startup, 🇮🇹raised €7m from 360cp and JOIN Capital. Agade, a startup developing an industrial exoskeleton, 🇮🇹raised €4m in a round participated by Cysero, Brembo Ventures, CDP VC, EIC Fund, 360cp, and GeneraImprese. CaSRevolution, a life sciences startup, 🇮🇹raised €1.8m from Utopia Sis and a group of business angels. I-Tes, an energy efficiency startup, 🇮🇹raised €1.4m from Eureka! Ventures and Tech4Planet. Angelini Ventures invested USD$ 6m (out of a USD $26m round) in US-based Cadence Neuroscience, an anti-epilepsy startup. Stellantis Ventures invested in Lyten, a tunable three-dimensional graphene startup. SilverLake acquired a minority stake in TeamSystem for $660m. Neosperience is planning to IPO its Neosperience Health subsidiary on the Nasdaq. Fabrick acquired Judopay. Rancilio Cube Sicaf 🇮🇹raised €12m. CDP VC 🇮🇹launched StyleIT, the fashion-tech accelerator.