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Hosted by Giacomo Mollo · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 211 episodes
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The Week in Italian Startup discusses and analyzes the latest news from the Italian startup ecosystem. Giacomo Mollo is a former academic in philosophy turned tech investor. He is co-founder and partner of iN3 Ventures, a corporate innovation and VC firm. Niccolò Sanarico is an Oxford MBA and a software engineer with a passion for innovation and startups. He is currently an Investment Manager at Primo Ventures SGR, a venture capital firm based in Italy.
Giacomo Mollo hosts The Week in Italian Startup, a business show with 211 episodes published.
Italian startup funding in H1 2026 came in at €679M according to VeM and €813M according to Growth Capital — two official venture capital reports on the same six months, €134M apart, and both correct. Giacomo Mollo and N
Proxima Fusion, nuclear fusion, stellarator technology, Italian founders and CDP Venture Capital anchor this episode on Europe's largest fusion round ever: €411M at a €2.4 billion valuation. The Max Planck Institute spin
Italian startup funding, venture capital, D-Orbit, Satispay, WeRoad, CDP and the dealflowit H1 2026 data anchor this episode on why Italy's ~€730M half-year is concentration, not depth. The top three rounds account for r
AI agent search, agentic web search, and the retrieval layer take center stage as Seltz raises a €12.5M seed to rebuild search for AI agents rather than humans. Founder Antonio Mallia — NYU PhD in information retrieval,
Anthropic's Founder's Playbook argues startups will fail MORE as AI shrinks idea-to-product from months to a weekend, removing the forced question every founder used to answer: does anyone want this? The 42% of startups
Bending Spoons IPO, SEC F-1 filing, EV/EBITDA valuation, roll-up acquisition strategy, AI token economics, and Satispay's €60M round anchor this episode on the Italian startup and venture capital ecosystem. The hosts dis
This episode unpacks Anthropic's Milan office launch staged at the Vatican with Pope Leo, Lex's $50M Series B legal tech raise led by Left Lane Capital, and Quantum Bridge Technologies' €8M seed round backed by Primo, Wi
Italian quantum software startup Algorithmiq, founded by physicist Sabrina Maniscalco, just closed an €18M round and relocated its global HQ from Helsinki to Milan — the largest quantum bet in Italian history and the fir
The episode unpacks three Italian venture capital deals shaping the ecosystem in 2025-2026: Smartpricing's €47M Series B (the largest vertical SaaS round in Italian history), a €5M Series A in insurtech, and the state of
This episode dissects three Italian venture capital signals: a €12M turnaround round into proptech Casavo led by Picus Capital and Project A, with Bending Spoons founders entering via personal vehicles; Jet HR's launch o
This episode breaks down three signals from the European startup and venture capital ecosystem: the €38M early-stage round into Italian autonomous driving startup Niulinx, the €211M EU-approved Italian state aid grant to
Bending Spoons acquires Tractive, an Austrian GPS pet tracker with €100M+ ARR, breaking its software-only acquisition playbook for the first time with a hardware-subscription hybrid. The episode unpacks why a company tha
The discussion starts from 360 Capital’s €85M first close and argues this is not just another fund announcement, but a stronger institutional bet on turning university research into investable deep tech companies across
This episode breaks down the EU Inc proposal, stock option taxation in Europe, Delaware incorporation, and Italian startup fundraising rounds. The hosts dissect a hidden clause in the 28 EU Commission regime that would h
The conversation opens with a sharp critique of how banks typically fight fraud too late, arguing that the real edge is detecting attacker infrastructure before fraudulent transactions even happen. A major insight is the
The conversation opens with Eight Sleep’s €1.5 billion growth round and argues that the real asset is not the smart bed itself, but the company’s moat: over 1 billion hours of proprietary sleep data collected across 35 c
he hosts analyze Proxima Fusion’s €400M growth round backed by Bavaria, RWE, and the Max Planck Institute, positioning stellarator-based nuclear fusion on a potential early-2030s commercialization roadmap. They break dow
The speakers unpack Contents’ €7M Series B and argue the market is rewarding workflow/orchestration layers more than “bigger models,” especially in enterprise. They highlight Contents’ fast evolution—from content creatio
The episode breaks down Newcleo’s €75M growth round and why nuclear is inherently capital-intensive, with a bold timeline toward prototypes and operations. The episode clarifies key nuclear concepts—SMRs for deployabilit
The discussion opens with the Smart Capital, CrowdFundMe, and WeAreStarting reverse merger, highlighting how a publicly listed SME finance platform could act as a “finance operating system” rather than a traditional crow
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