About This Fund
Neva II Italia is a PIR-compliant (Piano Individuale di Risparmio) Italian venture capital fund launched in September 2024 by Neva SGR, the venture capital subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo Group. Targeting EUR 100 million in commitments, Neva II Italia is structured as a closed-end Italian-law alternative investment fund under the SGR management framework, qualifying under PIR Alternative regulations that provide significant tax advantages to Italian pension funds (casse previdenziali), insurance companies, and institutional retail investors seeking venture capital exposure. As of its September 2024 launch, the fund had already raised over EUR 42 million and completed five investments in promising Italian companies.
Neva II Italia invests exclusively in Italian-headquartered or Italian-founded companies at the early-to-growth stage — from seed through Series B — across five priority sectors aligned with the broader Neva SGR investment thesis: life sciences and healthcare innovation (oncology, autoimmune disease, digital health); energy transition and cleantech; deep tech and next-generation manufacturing; digital transformation and enterprise software; and aerospace. The Italian focus differentiates Neva II Italia from its companion fund Neva II (EUR 400 million, global mandate), which invests across international ecosystems. By anchoring on Italian companies, Neva II Italia gives domestic institutional investors a dedicated vehicle to access the Italian startup ecosystem with the full support network of Intesa Sanpaolo Group — Italy's largest domestic bank, with extensive relationships across Italian corporations, SMEs, family offices, and institutional investors.
Neva II Italia complements the broader Neva II twin-fund platform, which together targets EUR 500 million in combined capacity — double the investment envelope of the predecessor Neva SGR fund generation. This scaling represents both Neva SGR's maturation as an Italian venture capital institution after four years of deployment, and Intesa Sanpaolo Group's strategic commitment to cultivating a domestic venture capital ecosystem that keeps innovative Italian companies within the Italian institutional investor sphere rather than ceding early ownership to foreign VC firms. The PIR Alternative structure of Neva II Italia has attracted particular interest from Italian pension and social security funds, which historically have been underallocated to the domestic VC asset class relative to peer European institutional markets.