Stefano Ferraro is a Partner at Neva SGR focused on business development and fundraising, bringing a background in senior banking and strategy roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole CIB, Paribas, and Boston Consulting Group, along with more recent industrial experience reporting directly to the CEO at Acciaierie d'Italia. He also serves as Senior Advisor at Aspen Institute Italia and has held board and supervisory roles at major industrial and financial groups, giving him a mix of finance, industry, and public-policy experience.
About their Fund
Neva SGR is a venture capital fund backed by Intesa Sanpaolo that connects Italian entrepreneurs to global investors and helps international founders enter Italy's industrial and scientific network, drawing on the bank's connections to help portfolio companies with customer introductions, coaching, governance, fundraising, and debt access, while also running a separate fund that invests in the infrastructure of the startup ecosystem itself and a Lombardy-focused fund for cleantech companies with proven technology. It focuses on companies already generating at least €5M in revenue in fields like life sciences, energy, digital transformation, and aerospace, has built a portfolio spanning areas such as fusion energy, quantum computing, and biotech, and offers access to its funds to both institutional investors and, through Fideuram and Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking, private banking clients.
















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