Venture capital players had a busy end of year in Italy.
Endostart, an Italian medical devices startup based in Florence area, raised one million of euros fromĀ PanakĆ©s Parnters,Ā A11 Venture, Estor,Ā and business angels (see here aĀ previous post byĀ BeBeez).Ā Alessandro TozziĀ founded Endostart andĀ Special Electronic Design,Ā whose chairman isĀ Alberto Bruni. The company is working towards getting the authorisation for selling its products in Europe in 2020 and in USA in 2021.
Projects Co-living, a German startup that Italian entrepreneursĀ Luca BovoneĀ andĀ Giorgio CiancaleoniĀ founded, raised 2 million of euros fromProgramma 102, the investment vehicle of Italian venture capital firmĀ P101Ā (See here aĀ previous post byĀ BeBeez). Projects Co-living provides accommodation and temporary living services to young professionals. The company will invest the proceeds for expanding the business in Italy, France, and Spain. Bovone previously was a manager ofĀ Dropbox Europe. Ciancaleoni, previously Italian worked as Italyās country manager forĀ Homebell.
Innova Venture,Ā the venture capital fund that theĀ Lazio RegionĀ created for supporting the local startup and innovative SMEs, signed a partnership with equity crowdfunding platform Ā 200Crowd.comĀ (see here aĀ previous post byĀ BeBeez). This agreement will allow the companies in which IV invested to raise further resources on 200Crowd.com. IV has resources worth 20 million of euros and belongs toĀ Two Hundred, a firm fka asĀ Tip VenturesĀ that Matteo Masserdotti (ceo) and Carlo Saccone (cto) founded in 2014.
TheĀ fundraisingĀ campaignĀ forĀ Torre di Milano di OPMĀ onĀ Concrete, the crowdfunding platform for real estate investments whose ceo isĀ Lorenzo Pedotti, came to a conclusion earlier than the 6 January 2019 deadline (see here aĀ previous post byĀ BeBeez). Torre Milano raised 0.75 million of euros ahead of a 0.5 million target. The proposed investment has a 48 months tenure with a 9.6% gross Irr and a costo of 45.3 million. The least investment ticket is of 0.01 million.
Metis Precision Medicine, a biotech startup, raised 0.575 million of euros fromĀ Club degli Investitori,Ā whose chairman isĀ Giancarlo Rocchietti, and 0.22 million fromĀ Italian Angels for Biotech (IAB), whose chairman isĀ Luca BenattiĀ (see here aĀ previous post byBeBeez).Ā Paolo ComoglioĀ andĀ Mauro BrunelliĀ are the ceo and cto of Metis, a āBenefit Companyā which pursues profits and social interest.
StartupItalia, an Italian media company, launched an equity crowdfunding caimpaign onĀ MamacrowdĀ for raising 0.5 million of euros in exchange of a 4% stake on the ground of a pre-money enterprise value of 12 million of euros, saidĀ CrowdfundingBuzzĀ (see here aprevious post byĀ BeBeez). For 2018, Startupitalia foresees sales of 2 million and an ebitda of 0.070 million.