Turin-based startup Plino, founded by three Forbes Under 30 entrepreneurs, has raised fresh capital to accelerate its mission of bringing artificial intelligence into the financial planning and analysis process for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The company secured €650,000 in a funding round backed by Vento (Exor Ventures), Berkeley SkyDeck Europe and Techaround.vc. Additional contributions came from Zooga.vc and several business angels, including experienced CFOs and accountants.
Legal support for the deal was provided by Studio Sani Zangrando, with lawyers Marianna Moscarelli and Marco Cardaci handling the process.
Plino specialises in simplifying and speeding up the analysis of accounting, costs, revenues and cashflow data through generative AI. Since launching less than a year ago, the startup has already won more than 100 SME clients across Italy.
With the new funds, Plino intends to accelerate product development, enhance its AI capabilities, expand its nine-person team, and deepen collaborations with professional firms and trade associations. Upcoming product features include cash flow forecasting, natural language financial reporting, and profitability analysis at both product and project levels.
Founded in 2023 within Vento, a venture-building programme in Turin, the company has rapidly grown from its initial investment by Exor Ventures. Berkeley SkyDeck Europe, in partnership with Cariplo Factory and Lendlease, later joined as a backer alongside Techaround.vc and other Italian investors.
Techaround.vc managing director Pietro Invernizzi said, ““We chose to invest in Plino because it represents the perfect combination of a determined,
multidisciplinary team and one of the most relevant yet overlooked challenges of the Italian
economy: financial planning and analysis for SMEs. The market is vast, still largely untapped, and
the timing is right: more and more SMEs are realizing the need to structure financial management
in a more rigorous and strategic way.
“Plino’s solution stands out for its ease of use, making it accessible even to entrepreneurs and managers with limited digital literacy, lowering the technological barrier that has often the hindered adoption of similar tools. Combined with a solid product vision and a data-driven
approach, this convinces us that Plino can become a benchmark in the Italian market and
successfully scale across other European markets as well. ”
Plino has been incubated since 2024 in I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino. Its founders – Pietro Galimberti, Viola Bonesu and Enrico Castelli – bring diverse backgrounds in philosophy, engineering, finance and AI. They set out to address a common problem for Italian SMEs: slow, fragmented and incomplete financial processes.
In a joint statement, Plino’s founders said, “One of our clients in the food sector told us they used to spend over 10 hours a week manually reclassifying revenues and costs to identify their largest customers, best-selling product families and cost-absorbing areas. Managing five bank accounts was also entirely manual, without real-time visibility on cash flows. With Plino, this entire process has been automated, and managers now make strategic decisions in seconds, with clear, always up-to-date data.
“And cases like this are not isolated: every day we meet dozens of companies in sectors ranging from manufacturing to construction, from hospitality to food service, facing the same difficulties. Our goal is to help them say goodbye to manual processes and Excel spreadsheets, replacing them with reliable insights for informed strategic decisions.”
Read the daily FinTech news
Copyright © 2025 FinTech Global
