INTESA SANPAOLO SPA
Intesa Sanpaolo is Italy's leading investment bank and one of Europe's largest financial institutions, serving over 14 million customers. The Group has a strong international presence across Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa.
Deeply committed to supporting innovation and sustainable economic growth, Intesa Sanpaolo has developed a comprehensive portfolio of financial and non-financial services designed to support startups, SMEs, scale-ups, and large corporations throughout their innovation journey. The Group offers innovative financing solutions, and tailored advisory services aimed at improving companies' financial readiness, facilitating access to finance, and attracting further private and public investments.
Leveraging its extensive expertise in innovation financing and corporate development, Intesa Sanpaolo is uniquely positioned to support disruptive and breakthrough technologies from the earliest research and development stages through validation, scaling, and industrialization. By connecting innovators with financial resources, industrial partners, investors, and market opportunities, the Group plays a key role in bridging the gap between technological innovation and successful market adoption, contributing to the growth of a more competitive and resilient European innovation ecosystem.
Intesa Sanpaolo goes beyond financing by providing tailored industrial and financial consulting services. These services aim to facilitate technology transfer from research to market, to improve companies' innovation capacity and financial readiness and trigger additional investments. The experience and knowledge of a banking group that has always been involved in the financing of R&D&I projects facilitates the access to finance by supporting companies in the selection of the most suitable sources of financing necessary to support the different industrial projects in terms of financial and risk profile and to ensure the sustainability of the projects.
