Maria Imbesi focuses on using AI to build new kinds of ongoing care, especially in prevention and primary care, and pays close attention to whether customers truly love a product rather than chasing fast, artificial growth—an approach shaped by her choice to build a career in venture capital rather than start her own company, despite growing up with an entrepreneur parent. She has structured more than 50 investments at Zest and around 100 pre-seed deals alongside Michele Novelli, and she pairs that early-stage experience with strong views on helping Italian founders find the right international markets and on basing herself in Turin because of how quickly its manufacturing industry adopts new technology.