Country: Italy

EU-Startups

Italy’s embedded cybersecurity firm Exein adds €100 million in funding as global expansion continues

Exein, a Rome-based innovator in embedded cybersecurity for connected devices, today announced €100 million in new funding in order to accelerate product development and international expansion […]
December 18th, 2025
EU-Startups

Verona-based Equixly raises €10 million to scale its AI-driven platform for automated API security testing

Equixly, the Verona-based cybersecurity startup using agentic AI to automate API security testing, has raised €10 million in Series A funding to expand its team, advance […]
December 9th, 2025
EU-Startups

Italy’s Bending Spoons adds Eventbrite to portfolio in €430 million all-cash acquisition

Milan-based tech company Bending Spoons is acquiring global event platform Eventbrite in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately €430 million ($500 million). The definitive agreement will […]
December 2nd, 2025
Sifted

Italian defence prime Leonardo ‘hungry like a wolf’ to acquire more startups

Italian defence prime Leonardo tells Sifted it is on the hunt to acquire more startups as it looks to inject more innovation into its organisation and […]
November 28th, 2025
EU-Startups

European startups helping reduce the risk of outages like today’s Cloudflare disruption

The internet experienced significant disruption today after a major outage at Cloudflare, one of the most widely used infrastructure providers globally. Critical services including Spotify, X, […]
November 18th, 2025
EU-Startups

New €30 million Step Fund targets early-stage Italian startups with international growth potential

Milan based VC Step Venture has announced the first closing and operational launch of its Step Fund at €30 million, continuing its focus on Seed-stage investments […]
November 11th, 2025
EU-Startups

Adaptive grippers allowing robots to grasp any object drives €3.15 million investment in Italy’s Adaptronics

Adaptronics, a Bologna-based DeepTech startup specialising in electro-adhesive grippers for robotic systems with industrial automation and space applications, today announced the closing of a €3.15 million […]
November 5th, 2025
Sifted

Italian LPs poised to invest more in VC

Italian LPs are poised to invest more capital in VC as local investors report increasing interest and government initiatives offer incentives to back the asset class, […]
October 31st, 2025
Sifted

Bending Spoons raises $270m at $11bn valuation

Bending Spoons has raised $270m in equity at a pre-money $11bn valuation, a day after the Italian software unicorn announced it had secured $2.8bn in debt […]
October 30th, 2025
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