Promoting innovation
Promote innovation:
pursuing a new frontier
The promotion of innovation is an enabling factor to support the sustainable transition.
Investing in new technologies and startups is one of the key elements to support evolution from a green perspective.
The Group's commitment in this area is reflected in these objectives defined in the 2026-2029 Business Plan:
- Acceleration of highly innovative solutions, intercepting emerging trends (e.g. health, demographics), through applied research, and promoting the transfer of technologies and know-how
- Further strengthening of the offer aimed at start-ups and scaleups, providing innovation advisory and business transformation services, enabling ecosystem initiatives
- Strengthening of positioning in the field of Circular Economy by leveraging advisory services and promoting the adoption of circular models (within and outside the Group)
- Venture capital investments in innovative strategic sectors in the domestic and international market.
Main 2026-2029 Business Plan Targets
1,400 Innovation initiatives
and startup services (Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center)
€200 milllion
Investments in startups (Neva SGR)
Detecting emerging trends
(e.g., health, demography) and applied research
Main 2025 results*
904 innovation projects
launched
40 research projects launched
in the neuroscience, robotics and AI fields
€199m invested by Neva SGR
in startups
*The highlighted data refers to the 2022-2025 Business Plan, cumulative data as of 31.12.2025
Commitment to innovation
2022-2025 Business Plan: 2025 results
| 2022-2025 Business Plan targets |
Description | Results as at 31.12.2025 (where not specified) |
| Promoting innovation | Creation of a new digital bank to effectively serve a significant portion of Intesa Sanpaolo customers who do not visit branch | Continuous enhancing of Isybank, that offers to over 1m customers a faster, more streamlined approach, emphasising simplicity, immediacy and lower costs compared to traditional banking |
| Launch of around 800 innovation projects in 2022-2025 | 904 projects launched by Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center (ISPIC) in the 2022- 2025 period (258 projects launched in 2025) | |
| Around 100 million euro invested by Neva SGR in startups | €199m invested by Neva SGR in the 2022-2025 period (more than €80m in 2025) | |
| Support to high-potential startups through non- financial services (e.g., acceleration programmes) and the connection/support of venture capital funds, also thanks to Neva SGR | Around 450 startups supported and enhanced since 2022 | |
| Development of multidisciplinary applied research projects (e.g., AI, neuroscience, robotics) via collaboration with top-notch research centres, promoting technology transfer and spin-offs and creating intangible assets and intellectual property | 40 research projects launched in the 2022-2025 period (24 ongoing projects in 2025 on AI, neuroscience and robotics, with 13 launched in 2025) | |
| Acceleration of business transformation and support to corporates’ long-term development (e.g., scouting new technologies) promoting de-risking and competitiveness through open innovation programmes | Since 2022, 135 corporates have participated in open innovation programmes and more than 30 circular economy transformation programmes have been implemented for companies and institutions | |
| Support to the development of innovation ecosystems with an international perspective, coordinating the network of relationships with corporates, incubators, R&D centres, universities, national and international institutions | With reference to ecosystem initiatives, since 2019, over 270 startups were supported and enhanced, over 650 collaborations and proofs of concept were realised, more than €190m in capital was raised, and 1,150 new hires were made |
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| Diffusion of innovation mindset/culture through events and new educational formats | 140 positioning and matchmaking events organised in the 2022- 2025 period (in 2025, over 30 events organised). Overall >19,000 participants in the events, seminars and various initiatives (~60,000 participants since 2022) | |
| Providing Group’s people with excellent training on critical skills for the digital transition |
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Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center
The Group company that is committed to explore new business models, with a focus on Circular Economy and Data Driven Economy.
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