On 21 April, Friday, Bio4Dreams, an incubator for Life Sciences startups, raised 2.54 million euros through an equity crowdfunding campaign that earlier in February launced on CrowdFundMe on the ground of a pre-money value of 20 million and with a hard cap target of 3 million (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Bio4Dreams aims to list in 2025. Pietro Conti is the company’s ceo while Fabio Bianco is the chief science officer. Laura Iris Ferro, Elisabetta Borello, Daniele Cusi, and Pietro Conti founded Bio4Dreams in 2017. The company also belongs to Istituto Atesino di Sviluppo-ISA (4.63%), Friulia (4.63%) and Fondazione di Venezia (5.51%).
Wearable Robotics, an Italian scaleup producer of exoskeletons, raised 2.5 million euros through ClubDealOnline (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company attracted the resources of Progress Tech Transfer, LIFTT, RoboIT (a vehicle of CDP Venture Capital), and the clients of Sparkasse Private Banking. Wearable Robotics was born in 2014 as a spin-off Sant’Anna University and prior to launching such round it belonged to chief techical office Fabio Salsedo (28.95%), chairman Massimo Bergamasco (17.55%), chief scientific officer Antonio Frisoli (16.67%), managing director Lucia Lencioni (7.9%), marketing manager Fabio PIazza (7.9%), 4Aim Sicaf (1.8%, a vehicle that Ambromobiliare launched for investing in companies listed or soon – to – list on Milan market), and further minority shareholders. RoboIT also announced its investment in the 0.725 million round of Pipein, a startup developer of maintenance systems for pipes that also received money from LVenture Group, Pariter Robotics and ZERO (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Pipein raised a total of 0.8 million and will invest such proceeds in its organic development, R&D and the launch of Shark4. Alessandro Minori is the ceo and co-founder of Pipein
WaitHero, a startup born in 2021 that launched a web-app for paying restaurant bills, raised 1 million euros on the ground of a 5 million post money value (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company attracted the resources of its founders Gianandrea Siccardi, Andriy Dovzhenko and Mirco Bulega. WaitHero also received money from SFC Capital, the British Business Bank, Lefteris Kyriacou, Nadir Luvisotti, Matteo Santecchia, Matthes Felkl, Luis Leon Carsi, Luca Scollo, Giancarlo Cassoni, Andrew Rickerby, Annalisa Tranzi, Daniele Cipollone, Tommaso Grossi, Mengfan Hou, and further investors. The company also announced the acquisition of Quick my food, a provider of sustainable food delivery services. In April 2021, WaitHero attracted 0.45 million British Pounds for a post money value of 1.9 million euros from SFC Capital and British Business Bank. Milan-based law firm Legali Riuniti Lex and London’s Bennett Brooks assisted the company.
Foodu, an Italian food-tech startup, attracted one million euros from Cdp Venture Capital and Smart&Start-Invitalia (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The company invested such proceeds in the digitalization of its testing process. In 2021, Foodu raised 0.27 million on the ground of a pre-money value of 1.8 million through an equity crowdfunding campaign on Mamacrowd. Antonella Fasano and Paolo Pannarale founded the company in 2020.
Restworld, a platform for jobs in leisure and tourism, raised 0.5 million euros (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Startup Wise Guys, Intervieweb, Bakeca.it, Giancarlo Vergine, Giancarlo Rocchietti, Alberto Brustia, Vittorio Somaschini, and Federico Menetto poured resources in Restworld. The company will invest such proceeds in its organic development. Restworld is born in 2020 and has sales of 56,500 euros, an ebitda of minus 95,000 euros, equity of 0.126 million and net cash in the region of 83,000 euros
Italian Angels for Growth (IAG) invested in Israeli’s Votis, a medtech firm that launched a 2.27 million US Dollars SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) round (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Merrill Weber is the cofounder and ceo of Votis.
