Founding and supporting members

Intesa Sanpaolo is the banking group which was formed by the merger of Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI. Intesa Sanpaolo is the leader in Italy and also one of the top banking groups in Europe. It has a selected presence in Central Eastern Europe and Middle Eastern and North African.

Compagnia di San Paolo is a foundation pursues socially useful objectives in order to promote cultural, civil and economic development with the income from its assets. The Compania operates in the following sectors: research and education, the arts, cultural heritage and activities, health, and social policy. The Compagnia’s work is carried out through grants and projects directly managed by its own organisation and instrumental bodies.

Alexbank, established in 1957, today is one of Egypt’s leading private sector banks, participated by Intesa Sanpaolo Group since 2007. It owns one of the largest private sector branch networks in the country, with a total of 170 branches located in every major Egyptian governorate and about 5,000 employees. It serves about 1.5 million customers, playing a vital role in Egypt’s economic present and future. Every day it serves customers from all segments by providing value added financial products, services and solutions to Corporate, SME, Small Business and Retail Customers.

The mission of the Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center is to explore and learn about new future business models, to create the assets and skills required to support the long-term competitiveness of the Group and its customers and to act as an engine and driver of the new economy in Italy. Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center wants to be a lever to accelerate the economic development of Italian companies, with specific regard to the mega-trends of our society: Industry 4.0 and Circular Economy. Addressing the ecosystem of innovative start-ups to support them in their paths of scalability and internationalization, Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center creates a network of relationships with local and international companies, incubators, research centers, universities and realities. An open network that facilitates the matching of supply and demand for innovation. Through its laboratories and Competence Centers, it generates know-how and develops new assets and new businesses. Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center contributes to the diffusion of the “culture of innovation” through training initiatives and events open to all, with the aim of transmitting skills and methodologies.