Cosmico, a Milan-based scale-up energetic within the Way forward for Work house, has closed a €12 million funding spherical (fairness and debt) led by P101 SGR. The spherical additionally noticed the participation of long-standing traders, together with Prana Enterprise.
The corporate has additionally finalised the acquisition of 100% of Flatmates, a creator company co-founded by Michele Pagani and Marcello Ascani, which applies the Expertise-as-a-Service mannequin to the creator financial system throughout Italy, Spain and the USA.
Francesco Marino, CEO and co-founder of the Cosmico Group, mentioned, “Cosmico is now not a scale-up with a single product: we’ve got turn out to be a Way forward for Work holding firm, with 5 verticals immediately and a progress ambition that additionally runs via strategic transactions like this one. The €20 million already contracted within the first 4 months tells the story of a machine transferring at full pace: €40 million from natural enterprise is, in flip, the inspiration from which we’ll construct the €100 million of 2028.”
Based in 2020 by Francesco Marino, Simone Tornabene, and Matteo Roversi, Cosmico is a European scale-up working within the Way forward for Work house. The Group’s ecosystem is now organised round 4 complementary verticals: Cosmico (Expertise-as-a-Service for digital professionals), Flatmates (Expertise-as-a-Service for the creator financial system), Artistic Harbour (Group-as-a-Service for worker engagement), and Play New (Expertise Course of Design for constructing groups of SuperAgents — AI-augmented professionals). The corporate states that this structure will function the framework for future acquisitions.
Cosmico signifies that this capital will help the subsequent part of progress, with three new acquisitions anticipated by the top of 2026. These embody new enterprise items that broaden the group’s presence within the Way forward for Work sector, in addition to the strengthening of present enterprise items via competitor acquisitions. The corporate’s M&A method equally targets Italy and Spain, the place the Group is already organised with devoted working corporations.
Based in 2021, Flatmates has a roster of greater than 60 purchasers, together with Ducati, NordVPN, Google, Xiaomi, Commerce Republic, and Generali. The corporate operates throughout 4 enterprise areas: Manufacturing unit (expertise illustration), Company (model–creator expertise matching), Studio (manufacturing of authentic content material), and Originals (proprietary editorial channels reminiscent of FuoriBrief and Clickbait). The transition to full possession marks the completion of the method began in 2024 with the acquisition of a majority stake.
“Becoming a member of the Cosmico Group at 100% means multiplying the instruments and alternatives for the creators we symbolize and the manufacturers we work with. We share with Cosmico the identical mission: placing expertise on the centre. For us, this transaction means having the ability to scale even sooner in Italy, consolidate our progress in Spain, and proceed to provide content material that tells the story of the current and anticipates the way forward for communication. We will dream huge,” mentioned Michele Pagani, CEO of Flatmates.
Cosmico reported that it closed 2025 with €24 million in income (+109% YoY), and has already contracted €20 million of gross sales within the first 4 months of 2026, of which €1.5 million is in Spain. The year-end goal is €40 million in income from natural enterprise, to which the three M&A offers within the pipeline will add additional contribution. The corporate’s progress trajectory signifies reaching €100 million by 2028.
It has a group of greater than 35,000 digital professionals throughout Italy and Spain, and over 300 purchasers. Notable purchasers embody NTT Knowledge, Accenture, Deloitte Digital, Huawei, Scalapay, Publicis Sapient, Capgemini, Inter, Sisal, EssilorLuxottica, Dolce & Gabbana, Levi’s, Facile.it and A2A. It employs round 110 individuals in Milan and Madrid.
