Private Equity GPs in Italy

CDP Equity

CDP Equity is the evergreen strategic-equity arm of Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, wholly owned by CDP and created in 2011 as Fondo S…

F2i SGR

F2i is Italy's largest independent infrastructure asset manager, founded in 2007 and based in Milan, investing in transport, energy transition, digita…

Finint Investments SGR

Finint Investments SGR (legally Finanziaria Internazionale Investments SGR S.p.A.) is the multi-asset alternative asset manager of the Banca Finint gr…

Tamburi Investment Partners (TIP)

Tamburi Investment Partners (TIP) is a Milan-listed independent evergreen investment-merchant holding founded by Giovanni Tamburi that takes long-term…

CDP Venture Capital SGR

CDP Venture Capital SGR is Italy's largest venture capital manager, controlled by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti group (CDP Equity) alongside banking p…

Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR

Fondo Italiano d'Investimento SGR is a Milan-based, state-anchored asset manager created in 2010 on the initiative of Italy's Ministry of Economy and…

Ambienta

FSI SGR

FSI SGR is a Milan-based growth-capital asset manager created in 2016 out of the reorganization of Fondo Strategico Italiano, led by founder and CEO M…

Renaissance Partners

Renaissance Partners is a Milan- and Luxembourg-based private equity firm and one of the leading Italian-led mid-large buyout platforms, managing over…

Tages Capital SGR

Tages Capital SGR is a Milan-based Italian alternative asset manager and the private-markets arm of the Tages group, focused on renewable energy and i…

Italmobiliare

Italmobiliare is a Milan-listed investment holding company controlled by the Pesenti family and founded in 1946 as the financial holding of the Italce…

Nextalia SGR

Nextalia SGR is a Milan-based independent Italian asset manager founded in 2021 by former Mediobanca banker Francesco Canzonieri and backed by leading…

Quadrivio Group

Quadrivio Group is a Milan-based private equity and alternative investments firm founded in 1999, running a family of thematic control-buyout funds: t…

Equiter

Equiter is a Turin-based investor and fund advisor specialised in infrastructure, urban regeneration and research-and-innovation equity supporting Ita…

Synergo Capital SGR

Synergo Capital SGR is an independent Milan-based alternative asset manager founded in 2004 from an idea of Gianfilippo Cuneo to invest alongside Ital…

QuattroR

QuattroR is a Milan-based private equity SGR founded in 2017 to strengthen the capital structure and relaunch fundamentally sound but financially stre…

Sosteneo SGR

Sosteneo SGR is a Milan-based greenfield energy-transition infrastructure manager launched in 2023 as an affiliate of Generali Investments, majority-o…

Xenon Private Equity

Xenon Private Equity is an Italian lower mid-market buy-and-build specialist whose team has been investing since 1990, operating through Luxembourg fu…

Alcedo SGR

Alcedo SGR is an independent Treviso-based private equity firm whose team has invested in Italian SMEs since 1987, established in 2000 in partnership…

Mindful Capital Partners

Mindful Capital Partners (MCP), formerly Mandarin Capital Partners until an April 2022 rebrand, is an independent private equity firm founded in 2007…

Aksia SGR

Aksia SGR (formerly Aksia Group SGR) is an independent Milan-based mid-market buyout firm founded in 1997 that acquires majority stakes in Italian sma…

Armònia SGR

Armonia SGR is an independent Italian mid-market private equity firm founded by Sigieri Diaz della Vittoria Pallavicini, Francesco Chiappetta, Alessan…

Primo Capital SGR

Primo Capital SGR, formerly Primomiglio SGR and then Primo Ventures, is an independent Milan-based alternative asset manager running venture capital a…

Aurora Growth Capital

Aurora Growth Capital (formerly NB Aurora) is an Italian-led growth private-equity investor structured as a Luxembourg SICAV-RAIF permanent-capital (e…

Metrika SGR

Metrika SGR is a Milan-based Italian fund manager founded in 2019 and authorized by Banca d'Italia that runs three strategies: an industrial buyout fu…

NUO Capital

NUO Capital (branded NUO) is a Milan-based evergreen investment holding founded in 2016 by WWICL, the Hong Kong family office of the Pao Cheng family;…

P101 SGR

P101 SGR is an early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Milan, founded in 2013 by Andrea Di Camillo, backing digital and tech-driven found…

Palladio Holding

Palladio Holding (PFH) is an independent Vicenza-based investment holding with permanent capital, founded by Roberto Meneguzzo in 1980 and built out o…

VAM Investments

VAM Investments is a Milan and London based mid-market private equity firm founded in 2011 by Marco Piana, initially alongside former Bulgari chief ex…

H14

H14 S.p.A. is the Milan-based investment holding and single-family office of Barbara, Eleonora and Luigi Berlusconi, the three younger children of the…

Indaco Venture Partners SGR

Indaco Venture Partners SGR is Italy's largest independent venture capital asset management company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Milan. It in…

PM & Partners SGR

PM & Partners SGR is an independent Milan-based private equity manager that takes majority and qualified-minority stakes in Italian mid-market compani…

Gradiente SGR

Gradiente SGR is a Padova-based private equity manager founded in 2009 by Pietro Busnardo with backing from Italian banking foundations, investing 10-…

Angelini Ventures

Angelini Ventures is the Rome-based corporate venture capital arm of Angelini Industries, the Italian family-owned pharma and consumer group, establis…

Star Capital SGR

Star Capital SGR is a Milan-based, management-owned private equity manager founded in 2002 that specializes in control buyouts of small and mid-sized…

Alkemia SGR

Alkemia SGR is an Italian lower-mid-market asset manager based in Milan with a legal seat in Padova, offering private equity, venture capital and PIPE…

Mittel

Mittel is a Milan-listed evergreen investment holding (Borsa Italiana, ticker MIT) tracing its corporate origins to 1885 and adopting the Mittel name…

Consilium SGR

Consilium SGR is an independent Milan-based private equity manager investing in Italian mid-market SMEs, mostly via majority buyouts with founding fam…

Panakes Partners SGR

Panakes Partners SGR is a Milan-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrizio Landi, Alessio Beverina and Diana Saraceni. It was the first It…

Riello Investimenti SGR

Riello Investimenti Partners SGR is an independent Milan-based asset manager founded by Nicola Riello and rooted in the Riello industrial family herit…

Aliante Lux

Aliante is a Milan based, family office backed private equity group founded in 2006 by Paolo Righetto and Niccolo Fischer to acquire and grow Italian…

Friulia

Friulia S.p.A. is the regional financial holding of the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, founded on 10 April 1967 under Regional Law 18/1966 a…

Arca Space Capital

Arca Space Capital is the first private equity fund of Italian asset manager Arca Fondi SGR, launched in August 2023 and advised by Space Capital Advi…

Kyip Capital SGR

KYIP Capital SGR (formerly Kyma Investment Partners) is a Milan-based independent asset manager founded in 2020 and wholly owned by its partners, regi…

XGen Venture SGR

XGEN Venture SGR is a Milan-based early-stage venture capital manager investing in European life sciences, backing biotechnology, medtech and diagnost…

IGI Private Equity

IGI Private Equity (Iniziativa Gestione Investimenti SGR S.p.A.) is a Milan-based mid-market buyout SGR founded in 1998 within the Interbanca Group an…

B4 Investimenti SGR

B4 Investimenti SGR is an independent Italian asset manager founded in 2012 and based in Rome that makes control and growth private equity investments…

FVS SGR

FVS SGR is a territorial private equity manager based in Marghera near Venice and wholly controlled by Veneto Sviluppo, the Veneto regional developmen…

Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia SGR

Sviluppo Imprese Centro Italia SGR, known by the brand SICI, is a Florence-based asset manager founded in 1998 and owned by regional finance bodies an…

Assietta Private Equity SGR

Assietta Private Equity SGR is a Milan-based lower-mid-market private equity manager investing in small and medium Italian industrial, consumer and se…

Ethica Global Investments

Ethica Global Investments (EGI) is the permanent-capital, club-deal private equity vehicle of Milan-based Ethica Group (founded 2010). Started in May…

Oltre Impact SGR

Oltre Impact SGR is a Milan-based impact investment manager widely regarded as Italy's first impact investing fund, founded in 2006 by Luciano Balbo a…

LIFTT

LIFTT S.p.A. is a Turin-based evergreen venture capital holding created in 2019 by Compagnia di San Paolo, Politecnico di Torino and Fondazione LINKS…

First Capital

First Capital is an investment holding company listed on Euronext Growth Milan that specialises in Private Investments in Public Equity and private eq…

Entangled Capital SGR

Entangled Capital SGR is a Milan-based independent private equity manager founded in 2019 that runs the EC I fund, taking control and co-control stake…

Rancilio Cube SICAF

Milan investment company (SICAF) supervised by the Bank of Italy, created by the Rancilio espresso-machine family to institutionalize about a decade o…

Smart Capital

Smart Capital is a Monza-based permanent-capital investment holding, founded in 2021 and listed on Euronext Growth Milan since November 2024, that tak…

Zest

Zest is the Rome-based listed early-stage investor and accelerator formed by the April 2024 reverse merger of LVenture Group (operator of the LUISS En…

RedFish LongTerm Capital

RedFish LongTerm Capital is an Italian permanent capital industrial holding founded in 2020 by Paolo Pescetto and Andrea Rossotti together with the Ba…

ABC Company

ABC Company S.p.A. Societa Benefit is a Milan-based independent permanent-capital investment holding and advisory firm, listed on the professional seg…

035 Investimenti SGR

035 Investimenti S.p.A. is a Bergamo permanent-capital investment vehicle promoted by local entrepreneurs that takes minority growth stakes in small a…

8a+ Investimenti SGR

8a+ Investimenti SGR is a Varese-based Italian asset manager founded in 2006 that runs open-end funds, a Luxembourg SICAV, segregated accounts and clo…

Alto Partners SGR

Alto Partners SGR is an independent Milan-based lower mid-market buyout firm, originated in 2000 by Stefano Scarpis and Raffaele de Courten and consti…

Arcadia SGR

Arcadia SGR is an independent, management-owned Italian asset manager based in Milan and authorized by the Bank of Italy in 2009. It runs closed-end p…

Augens Capital

Augens Capital is a Milan-based independent sponsor founded in 2014 that invests deal-by-deal alongside institutional co-investors in Italian mid-mark…

Avanzi Etica SICAF

Avanzi Etica SICAF, operating under the a|impact brand, is a Milan-based closed-end impact venture capital vehicle promoted by Avanzi and Etica Sgr th…

AVM SGR

AVM SGR is a Milan-based asset management company and Societa Benefit, founded in 2016 as AVM Gestioni and later rebranded, that manages multi-compart…

Azimut Libera Impresa SGR

Azimut Libera Impresa SGR is the Milan-based private-markets and alternatives arm of listed Italian asset manager Azimut Holding, founded in 2009 to c…

B4iFund

Early-stage venture arm of B4i - Bocconi for Innovation, the startup accelerator of Milan's Bocconi University. B4iFund is a Simple Investment Company…

BlackSheep SGR

BlackSheep SGR is a Milan-based, Bank of Italy-authorized venture capital manager specialized in vertical AI, AI-marketing and MadTech; founders Umber…

Bravo Capital Partners

Bravo Capital Partners is the private-equity franchise of Milan-based advisor Bravo Invest Srl, taking control positions in founder-led and family-own…

Charme Capital Partners SGR

Charme Capital Partners is a pan-European mid-market buyout firm founded in Milan in 2003 by Luca and Matteo Cordero di Montezemolo, investing through…

Claris Ventures SGR

Claris Ventures SGR is a Turin-based, Bank of Italy-authorised venture capital manager founded in 2019 that invests in early-stage biopharma companies…

Clessidra Private Equity SGR

Clessidra Private Equity SGR is the flagship buyout arm of Clessidra Group, founded in Milan in 2003 by Claudio Sposito and majority owned by Italmobi…

Credem Private Equity SGR

Credem Private Equity SGR, since renamed Credem Euromobiliare Private Asset SGR, is the alternative-investment fund manager of the Credem (Credito Emi…

DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR

DeA Capital Alternative Funds SGR is the Milan-based alternative asset manager of DeA Capital, part of Italy's De Agostini group, running direct priva…

Deep Ocean Capital SGR

Deep Ocean Capital SGR S.p.A. is an independent Italian asset manager founded in 2021 and based in Rome, authorised as an SGR under Art. 35 TUF and en…

DVC Partners

DVC Partners is a pan-European special situations and deep-value investor that takes majority or controlling stakes in mid-sized companies facing comp…

Equinox

Equinox is an Italian-led mid-market private equity firm founded in 2000 by Salvatore Mancuso, investing through control and co-control buyouts in Ita…

Equita Capital SGR

Equita Capital SGR is the Milan-based alternative asset management arm of Equita Group, a listed Borsa Italiana investment bank, and manages private e…

Eulero Capital

Eulero Capital is a Milan-based permanent-capital investment platform founded in 2020 that takes majority and significant-minority stakes in high-qual…

Euregio+ Alpine Venture Capital

Euregio+ Alpine Venture Capital is a self-managed, fixed-capital SICAF (SICAF register no. 73) based in Bolzano, South Tyrol, that makes early-stage v…

Eureka! Venture SGR

Eureka! Venture SGR is a Milan-based venture capital manager authorised by the Bank of Italy, specialised in deep-tech technology transfer and investi…

F&P Equity Partners

F&P Equity Partners is a Milan based independent private equity boutique founded in March 2023 by Guglielmo Fiocchi, Maurizio Perroni and Andrea Lovat…

FIEE SGR

FIEE SGR is a Rome-based Italian energy-transition investment manager founded in 2015 that backs energy-efficiency and distributed-energy infrastructu…

Futura SGR

Futura SGR is a Milan-based Italian growth capital manager authorized by the Bank of Italy in July 2024 and founded by Fabio Luigi Gallucci and Gabrie…

Green Arrow Capital SGR

Green Arrow Capital SGR is an independent Italian alternative asset manager founded in 2012 by Eugenio de Blasio and based in Rome, investing across p…

Harcos Capital Partners

Harcos Capital Partners is a Milan-based independent-sponsor holding that invests deal-by-deal through club deals with family offices and qualified in…

HAT SGR

HAT SGR is an independent Italian alternative-investment manager founded in 2007 and based in Milan, specialized in private equity for technology-focu…

Hind - Holding Industriale

Hind - Holding Industriale is a Turin-based evergreen industrial permanent-capital holding founded in 2011 by Claudio Rovere that takes majority stake…

Hyle Capital Partners

Hyle Capital Partners is an independent Milan-based asset manager (SGR) investing in small and mid-sized Italian food, beverage and agri-food companie…

Ibla Capital

Ibla Capital is an independent Rome-based private equity investment company founded in 2015 by Alessandro Lo Savio, taking control stakes in small and…

Innovative-RFK

Innovative-RFK S.p.A. (brand i-RFK) is a Milan-based permanent-capital investment holding founded in 2017 by Paolo Pescetto and Andrea Rossotti out of…

Invitalia

Invitalia is Italy's national agency for inward investment and enterprise development (Agenzia nazionale per l'attrazione degli investimenti e lo svil…

Itaca Equity

Itaca Equity is a Milan-based special situations and turnaround equity provider that partners with mid-sized Italian companies through ad hoc club dea…

Itago SGR

Itago SGR (ITAGO SGR S.p.A.) is an independent Italian lower-mid-market private equity manager headquartered in Venice with a Milan office, founded in…

Key Capital

Key Capital is a Milan-based venture incubator founded in June 2012 by Giorgio Di Stefano, which describes itself as a NewCo Building Company backing…

Koinos Capital

Koinos Capital SGR is a Milan-based independent asset manager founded in 2019 when Mion and partners took over a former Anthilia-Augens management com…

L&B Capital SGR

L&B Capital SGR is an Italian asset manager formed in October 2025 when Soprarno SGR, part of the Banca Ifigest group, acquired Milano Investment Part…

Lazio Innova

Lazio Innova is the in-house economic development and innovation agency of the Regione Lazio, which runs direct venture capital co-investment through…