Italian Startup Archimede Secures $1.7M for Remote Infrastructure Monitoring

Jan de Vries · 2026-06-29

An Italian DeepTech startup called Archimede just closed a Seed round of $1.7 million (€1.5 million), beating its original $1.1 million (€1 million) target. The company builds a modular system for managing and monitoring off-grid critical infrastructure. This fresh capital will help them grow their technical and commercial teams, finish product industrialization, speed up enterprise pilots, and expand internationally. The round was led by Primo Capital SGR through its funds Primo Digital, Primo Digital Parallel Italia, and Primo Digital Parallel Sud Italia. Other investors include CDP Venture Capital, Plug and Play, and ELIS via CrossConnect (the InfraTech program from CDP Venture Capital's National Accelerator Network), along with 40Jemz and Irritec. ### From Sicily to the World "In just over two years, we transformed an idea born in Sicily into a technology startup ready to grow in international markets," says Riccardo Puglisi, CEO and co-founder of Archimede. "We want to make the management of remote infrastructure and assets simple and accessible by integrating energy, satellite connectivity, and software control into a single system." He adds: "We want to challenge the stereotypes about Sicily and prove that innovation can start here and reach the rest of the world." ### A Wave of European Funding in 2026 Archimede's Seed round comes amid a busy 2026 for European funding in industrial infrastructure software, edge intelligence, critical operations, connectivity, and SpaceTech. Here are some comparable rounds we've seen: - Helin raised $11.5 million (€10 million) for industrial edge intelligence - United Manufacturing Hub secured $5.7 million (€5 million) for industrial data infrastructure - Deeplify closed $2.3 million (€2 million) pre-Seed for critical infrastructure inspection - AirHub landed $5.1 million (€4.4 million) Series A for mission-critical drone operations software - UNIVITY scored $31.1 million (€27 million) Series A for space-based 5G connectivity - Microamp got $7.5 million (€6.5 million) EIC-backed for 5G/6G infrastructure - Gaussion raised $28.2 million (€24.5 million) for battery energy intelligence Italy's also active in this space with Mirai Robotics' $4.1 million (€3.6 million) pre-Seed and Intuos' $830,000 (€720,000) raise. All together, these 2026 comparators represent about $96.3 million (€83.7 million) in disclosed funding. That jumps to $614.2 million (€533.7 million) if you include ICEYE's $518.3 million (€450 million) late-stage SpaceTech round. The message is clear: capital is flowing into both early-stage industrial infrastructure tools and larger strategic space and connectivity platforms. ### Why Investors Believe in Archimede "What convinced us about Archimede was not only the technology itself, but also the way it was built: in an environment where energy, connectivity, and access to resources are never guaranteed," explains Mara Attardi, Investment professional at Primo Capital. "This very challenge has now become the company's product. The result is an integrated stack designed to operate at the edge of the connected world, which also happens to be where demand is growing the fastest." ### The Technology Behind ArchMesh Founded in 2024 by Riccardo Puglisi, Alessandro Basile, and Ferdinando Anselmi, Archimede developed ArchMesh. It's a modular plug-and-play kit for managing and monitoring critical infrastructure in off-grid environments. The solution combines: - Predictive energy management - Multi-constellation satellite connectivity - A low-code software platform All these work together in a single integrated stack, allowing bidirectional control of distributed facilities and assets even in places with no reliable terrestrial network coverage. By simplifying satellite connectivity, energy management, and software automation, Archimede turns isolated infrastructure into smart, monitorable nodes. This improves operational resilience for increasingly distributed industrial and infrastructure value chains. The product works across multiple industries: agriculture, oil and gas, logistics, public infrastructure, and defense. It was built to solve a very concrete problem: delivering data, control, and reliability to the most remote corners of the world.