In 2025, startups and scaleups based in Italy or with Italian founders secured 293 rounds (287 in 2024) worth in the region of 5.9 billion euros (below 1.8 billion). Download here the BeBeez Venture Capital Report 2025 with the details of the rounds. CB Insights said that 2025 global rounds were worth 469.3 billion US Dollars and 319.6 billion in 2024. Download here the BeBeez Venture 2024 Capital Report and BeBeez Venture Capital Report for 1H25 available for the subscribers to BeBeez News Premium and BeBeez Private Data.
Re Learn, the owner of AI-based urban wast management platform Nando, attracted 3.3 million euros from lead investors Maia Ventures (a fund in which the European Investment Fund poured the resources of the InvestEU programme), and CDP Venture Capital – Accelerators Fund (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Fondo Piemonte Next (CDP Venture Capital and FinPiemonte), Club degli Investitori, La4G – Luiss Alumni 4 Growth, and EMBA Capital Partners also invested in Nando, a company that Riccardo Leonardi, Fabrizio Custorella, Giovanni Lucifora, Federico Fedi, and Simone Cavariani founded in 2021. Nando previously attracted the resources of ZERO (CDP Venture Capital, Zest, ELIS, Milan-listed ENI), B4i (Bocconi 4 Innovation), LVenture Group, Feel Venture, and Sensible Capital. Stefano Molino heads the Accelerators Fund of CDP Venture Capital.Andrea Galassi is a Founding Partner of Maia Ventures. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Nando and its investors. Find out here how to subscribe for one month or one year or Click here for booking a demo videocall with BeBeez database manager.
Quido, a provider of AI-based solutions for the private capital sector, attracted 1.6 million euros from lead investor Vertis (partial financing of Next Generation EU programme), CDP Venture Capital, SevenData, Edrom, and a pool of business angels (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Francesco Calia (ceo) and Lorenzo Bergadano (cto) are the founders of Quido that will invest the raised proceeds in hiring further human resources, its proprietary technology and commercial expansion. Giacomo Giurazza is a partner of Vertis which received assistance from Solving. CDP Venture Capital retained Giuliano e Di Gravio. Lorenza Pellone di Ricci and Radaelli acted as public notaries
Sealence, a scaleup that developed zero emissions naval electric jet DeepSpeed, tokenized its shares in conjunction with the 30 million euros investment round that launched in 2023 (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company decided to structure a digital representation of its shareholdings on a distributed ledger technologies platform of Fleap. Sealence already raised 0.35 million through an equity crowdfunding campaign on CrowdfundMe on the ground of a pre-money value of 60.7 million. Alessandro Maria Lerro is a managing partner of Avvocati.net that advised the firm for which William Gobbo acts as ceo. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors Sealance and its investors. Find out here how to subscribe for one month or one year or Click here for booking a demo videocall with BeBeez database manager
