Archimede, an Italian DeepTech startup developing a modular system for managing and monitoring off-grid critical infrastructure, has closed a €1.5 million Seed funding round, surpassing its initial €1 million target, to strengthen its technical and commercial teams, complete product industrialisation, accelerate enterprise pilots, and support international expansion.
The round was led by Primo Capital SGR, through its funds Primo Digital, Primo Digital Parallel Italia, and Primo Digital Parallel Sud Italia. The round also included participation from CDP Venture Capital, Plug and Play, and ELIS through CrossConnect, the InfraTech programme from CDP Venture Capital’s National Accelerator Network, as well as 40Jemz and Irritec.
“In just over two years, we have transformed an idea born in Sicily into a technology startup ready to grow in international markets. 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.
“We want to challenge the stereotypes about Sicily and demonstrate that innovation can start here and reach the rest of the world,” says Riccardo Puglisi, CEO and co-founder of 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, this very challenge has now become the company’s product,” adds Mara Attardi, Investment professional at Primo Capital. “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.”
Founded in 2024 by Riccardo Puglisi, Alessandro Basile, and Ferdinando Anselmi, Archimede has developed ArchMesh, a modular plug-and-play kit for the management and monitoring of critical infrastructure in off-grid environments.
The solution combines predictive energy management, multi-constellation satellite connectivity, and a low- code software platform into a single integrated stack, enabling bidirectional control of distributed facilities and assets even in areas without reliable terrestrial network coverage.
By simplifying the adoption of satellite connectivity, energy management, and software automation, Archimede aims to transform isolated infrastructure into smart and monitorable nodes, improving the operational resilience of increasingly distributed industrial and infrastructure value chains.
The product is designed for applications across multiple industries, from agriculture and oil and gas to logistics, public infrastructure, and defence. It was built to solve a very concrete problem: delivering data, control, and operational continuity where conventional power and connectivity are not guaranteed.
“Bringing critical offline infrastructure into the era of distributed intelligence is a global challenge; Archimede has demonstrated that it can tackle this challenge starting from Sicily, and we are here to help them scale,” says Mara.
Besides the hardware and software product, Archimede also plans to develop an open- source version, designed to lower adoption barriers and enable companies, developers, and system integrators to build vertical applications on the platform.
The company has already launched projects with major enterprise operators. Among these, a PoC with Eni Joule is currently being initiated to test ArchMesh for the management and remote monitoring of industrial assets in areas with limited connectivity.
The goal is to transform ArchMesh into a scalable platform for the management of off-grid infrastructure, bringing space and digital technologies to practical industrial use cases: smart irrigation, pipeline monitoring, logistics tracking, remote facility management, and the control of distributed assets.
