Rara Factory Raises €3.2M Seed Round to Advance AI-Driven Alternative…

Team S · 2026-02-10T13:55:16.000Z

Rara Factory, a deep-tech spin-off from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice that combines physics-driven experimentation with artificial intelligence to innovate new materials as alternatives to rare earths, has successfully closed a €3.2 million seed funding round. The freshly raised capital will enable the company to invest in advanced laboratory infrastructure and scale experimental platforms that accelerate discovery of materials for strategic industrial sectors like energy, mobility and aerospace. This seed round was led by Primo Capital through its Primo Climate fund and CDP Venture Capital through its Accelerators Fund, with participation from a group of business angels led by Alberto Baban, president of Fondazione Nord Est. The funding supports Rara Factory’s proprietary platform which synthesizes and characterizes new materials at high throughput and feeds real experimental datasets into AI models helping to shorten innovation cycles from years to days while strengthening industrial competitiveness and strategic supply independence. The technology’s unique blend of experimental physics and machine learning places Rara Factory at the forefront of next-generation materials discovery, as demand grows for alternatives to critical raw materials with complex extraction and supply-chain challenges. The new capital will accelerate technology validation, deepen industrial partnerships, and expand commercial applications of the company’s discoveries across European and global markets.

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