Smartness, an Italian AI-based scaleup for the leisure and hospitality sector, secured a 47 million euros Series B round in primary and secondary equity and debt that attracted the resources of lead investors United Ventures and CDP Venture Capital and of Partech (see here a previous post by BeBeez). The firm will invest such proceeds in its international growth and strategic M&A. Since its birth in 2020, Smartness raised above 60 million. Luca Rodella, ceo, is one of the company’s founders. Fabio Pirovano is a partner of United Ventures.

A-Cube, an Italian fintech based in Milan that Antonino Caccamo (cto) and Alessandro Pagani founded in 2018, attracted 4 million euros for its organic growth and proprietary technology from lead investor P101 which channelled its resources through Programma 103, Azimut Eltif Venture Capital P103 and Programma 103R Digital (see here a previous post by BeBeez). A-Cube also received money from Sella Direct Ventures that will support the target’s growth with its international network. P101 retained Deloitte Advisory. Giuseppe Donvito is a partner of P101, a firm that Andrea Di Camillo founded. BeBeez Private Data, the private capital database of BeBeez and FSI, monitors P101and its investments. Find out here how to subscribe for one month or one year or Click here for booking a demo videocall with BeBeez database manager

BeDimensional (BD) invested more than 30 million euros for building a production plant for special materials in Livorno’s Interporto Toscano Amerigo Vespucci (see here a previous post by BeBeez). Vittorio Pellegrini, Francesco Bonaccorso and Andrea Gamucci spun off BD from Genoa Italian Institute of Technology’s Graphene Labs in 2016 and since then raised 35 million euros from venture capital investors and 20 million from the European Investment Bank. The company previously attracted the resources of EniNext, CDP Venture Capital, Eureka, Nova Capital, Pellan Italia of Achille Costamagna e C., Stefano Drago, and BluAcquario.