AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoItalian Startup Spotlight: Milan’s Beelzebub, an AI-native cybersecurity firm, raised a €3m seed led by United Ventures to expand its team, open offices in Rome and San Francisco, and push client growth across Europe—especially for NIS2-regulated companies. Deeptech & Robotics: Generative Bionics unveiled Gene.01, a humanoid robot with sensing skin that uses “Physical AI” to anticipate contact and let humans teach tasks by guiding its limbs—starting with a welding use case for Fincantieri. SME-Friendly Innovation Ecosystem: WMF – We Make Future in Bologna drew 75,000+ attendees from 90 countries, with 3,000 startups/SMEs and 3,000+ B2B meetings, reinforcing Italy’s push to connect innovation, training, and business. Local Energy for Small Players: Croatia’s first energy community is live, with 17 members including a micro-enterprise, sharing rooftop solar output via the grid and targeting roughly halved bills—an example Italian SMEs may watch for community-energy models. Business Finance Signals: Ominimo, a profitable Budapest motor-insurance insurtech, hit unicorn status after a €20.1m Series B at €1.4bn valuation, planning expansion toward Belgium/Romania and then Italy/France/Spain.
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