Turin-based Plino, which uses generative AI to streamline analysis of accounting, cost, revenue, and cash-flow data for SMEs, has closed a €650,000 funding round.
Investors include Exor Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Europe (UC Berkeley’s accelerator with Cariplo Factory and Lendlease), and a syndicate of Italian backers led by Techaround.vc, joined by Zooga.vc and several business angels, including CFOs and accountants.
Incubated since 2024 at I3P, the Innovative Companies Incubator of Politecnico di Torino, Plino was founded by Pietro Galimberti, Viola Bonesu, and Enrico Castelli. The founders combine backgrounds in philosophy, engineering, finance, and AI, convinced that innovation happens at the intersections.
Italian SMEs struggle with fragmented financial workflows - data scattered across accountants, software, and banks; manual analysis spread over dozens of spreadsheets; and delays that push managers to rely on instinct rather than evidence.
Plino replaces this with a single platform for real-time tracking of sales, costs, revenue, and cash flow, liquidity forecasting, and automatically generated, easy-to-read reports.
Today, Plino supports more than 100 SMEs across Italy in sectors such as manufacturing, services, food, hospitality, and construction. The goal is simple: give SMEs a fast, accurate system for making strategic, data-driven decisions.
The new capital will accelerate the development of AI features such as cash-flow forecasting, natural-language report generation, and profitability analysis at the product or project level.
In parallel, Plino will grow its product, technology, and sales teams and deepen partnerships with professional firms and trade associations, bringing AI-driven innovation into the accounting profession.
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