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Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center
We helped the Startup Initiative of Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center as a growth mentor and consultant across their whole 700+ tech startup portfolio
Company & Background
Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center is the corporate and startup innovation center by Intesa SanPaolo, an Italian-HQed banking giant. One of their initiatives is called Startup Initiative, in which they support tech startups and scaleups of their client network or from their ecosystem to grow.
Challenges & Needs
Since Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center was looking to add partners that were focused on supporting tech startups on growth and go-to-market that would be generalist enough to handle all of their verticals, have strong knowledge of the local and regional ecosystem, but had international experience, networks, and exposure.
Solutions & Impact
We joined the Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center partner network as tech venture growth experts, providing support in dozens of internally pitching sessions, being a sparring partner and providing actionable insights and tools to improve the growth cases of the 700+ portfolio companies across all industries.
These messages keep our motivation high and our team going strong
“ FFA has been one of our longest standing mentors and consultants, supporting us since the early days of the Startup Initiative. They provided immense value on growth engineering and go-to-market in tech. ”
Luca Pagetti
“ FFA has been one of our longest standing mentors and consultants, supporting us since the early days of the Startup Initiative. They provided immense value on growth engineering and go-to-market in tech. ”
Luca Pagetti
Head of Startup Growth Financing | Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center
Company & Background
Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center is the corporate and startup innovation center by Intesa SanPaolo, an Italian-HQed banking giant. One of their initiatives is called Startup Initiative, in which they support tech startups and scaleups of their client network or from their ecosystem to grow.
Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center doesn’t provide expert support and value creation internally and rely on external collaborations with different stakeholders in the local and international tech ecosystem to provide niche services to their portfolio companies.
Challenges & Needs
Since Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center was looking to add partners that were focused on supporting tech startups on growth and go-to-market that would be generalist enough to handle all of their verticals, have strong knowledge of the local and regional ecosystem, but had international experience, networks, and exposure.
Industries include:
- Aerospace
- Agrifood Tech
- Circular Economy & Bio Economy
- Digital & Industry 4.0
- Energy – Cleantech
- Fashion & Tourism
- Media, Entertainment & Gamification
- MedTech – Healthcare
- Smart Mobility & Smart City
https://www.intesasanpaoloinnovationcenter.com/en/startup-development/acceleration/
Solutions & Impact
We joined the Intesa SanPaolo Innovation Center partner network as tech venture growth experts, providing support in
dozens of internally pitching sessions, being a sparring partner and providing actionable insights and tools to improve the growth cases of the 700+ portfolio companies across all industries.
The services included:
- Mentoring and sparring during the internal pitching sessions, providing top 3 levers to the presenting startups to supercharge their growth efforts
- Judge in pre-due diligence pitching sessions and events, in which presenting startups were ranked by us on their growth cases and growth prospects
- 1-1 deep dive sessions, targeting specific questions and challenges around growth engineering and go-to-market.
A series of companies that went through the programs raised a follow-on round from the corporate venture arm Nexa SGR, which portfolio companies can be found here https://www.nevasgr.com/content/neva/en/portfolio.html and details of the investments can befound here https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/neva-a608
