Startups
Invitalia
Rome, Italy
Invitalia is Italy’s national development agency, legally Agenzia nazionale per l’attrazione degli investimenti e lo sviluppo d’impresa S.p.A., a state-owned joint-stock company. The official Italian public-administration directory identifies tax code05678721001. It was established as Sviluppo Italia in1999 and is wholly controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. It administers business-development incentives and concessional financing, supports innovative startups and strategic industrial investment, assists public administrations with national and European programmes, and acts as a public procurement and project-implementation body. Smart&Start Italia supports innovative enterprises, including AI and other advanced digital technologies; programme budgets, awards, paid cash and private equity are distinct. Public startup stories demonstrate innovation-finance relevance without establishing every individual award amount or payment date. Its current public leadership is president Sergio Schisani and chief executive Bernardo Mattarella. The source-scoped team includes the published five-member governing board, five statutory-audit members, eleven identifiable additional first-line executives from the May4,2026 organization chart, and two separately published financial-reporting/compliance officers. Executive chart initials are expanded only where an official fuller-name source is available. The A.Bianchi chart identity is resolved as Andrea Bianchi by the agency’s own September2025 announcement identifying the same strategy, industrial-policy and sustainability responsibility. Only two authentic individual portraits are published on the core governance pages; missing headshots and longer career biographies remain explicit gaps. Subsidiary-only appointees are not cloned into the parent’s executive roster. Invitalia is a separate shareholder from its former subsidiary Invitalia Ventures SGR. The latter was formally renamed CDP Venture Capital SGR S.p.A. inJanuary2020 and managed ItaliaVentureI’s historical Empatica investment. That actual manager’s full canonical Investor2045 and separate protected legacy4725 are preserved; the parent agency is not substituted as an Empatica investor. Corporate programme resources are not external LP fund closes, and no invented private fund, ticket allocation, individual investment or company-financing round is created from public budgets.
Founded 1999
Team
Andrea BianchiHead of Strategy, Industrial Policy and Sustainability (May2026 organization chart) |
Antonella TomeiChair of the Board of Statutory Auditors |
Beniamino BimonteChief Operating Officer (May2026 organization chart) |
 Bernardo MattarellaChief Executive Officer |
Claudia ColaiacomoBoard Director |
Dario LiotoHead of Administration and Finance (May2026 organization chart) |
Domenico TudiniOfficer responsible for financial reporting (appointment July28,2023) |
Francesca Daniela GentileHead of Institutional Relations and Communication (May2026 organization chart) |
Francesca OttierHead of Fund Management and Equity Investments (May2026 organization chart) |
Gianluca VesentiniBoard Director |
Giovanni PortaluriHead of Public Investments (May2026 organization chart) |
Leonarda Danila SansoneHead of Enterprise Development (May2026 organization chart) |
Luigi GalloHead of Public Advisory (May2026 organization chart) |
Marco CanzanellaAlternate Statutory Auditor |
Massimo MarianiStatutory Auditor |
Paolo FogliaHead of Internal Auditing (May2026 organization chart) |
Pasquale AmbrogioHead of Anti-Corruption, Transparency, Anti-Money-Laundering and Compliance |
Serena Maria ViggianoAlternate Statutory Auditor |
Sergio Di MeoStatutory Auditor |
 Sergio SchisaniPresident |
Stefania PastoreBoard Director |
Stefano PiccalugaHead of Large Investments (May2026 organization chart) |
Valentina LazzareschiHead of Legal Affairs and Governance (May2026 organization chart) |