600M Italian AI Fund, Focoos AI, Yakkyo, Golden Power - September 5, 2023

Focoos AI, an AI optimization startup, raised €335k from CDP and Obloo. Yakkyo, a dropshipping platform, is 🇮🇹considering an IPO. The platform had revenues equal to €6.5m in 2022m with a 15.2% EBITDA margin. Do you remember the AI fund that was announced by the Italian government in May? The fund 🇮🇹will begin with €200m from the government and will be managed by CDP VC. Its aim is to raise up to €600m from private investors. The 🇮🇹problem of the Golden Power for Italian startups. 🇮🇹Reid Hoffman will be in Bologna on the 8th of September, giving a speech to the students of the Bologna Business School. Moneyfarm announced 2.6Bm under management and more than 100k customers, growing at 15% y-o-y.

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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.