The team at Koinos Capital is expanding with the addition of Valeria De Pergola in the role of Principal within the team responsible for investment selection and management.
De Pergola joins Koinos Capital following her tenure as Investment Director at DeA Capital in the “corporate credit and special situation investment programs” division. A graduate of Bocconi University with a degree in Finance and Control Administration, she embarked on her career in 2012 at Deloitte Financial Advisory, where she remained until 2017 as a Manager before joining Credito Fondiario.
Beppe Fumagalli, President of Koinos Capital, comments, “We are thrilled to welcome Valeria to the team. She is a professional with significant experience in the private markets investment realm, and her expertise will undoubtedly provide valuable support to our development projects. This will help us not only to seize all the opportunities that the market offers but also to support the Italian SMEs in which we invest in their journey towards further growth in Italy and abroad.”
Valeria De Pergola, Principal at Koinos Capital, adds, “I am entering Koinos with great enthusiasm. Our country is filled with extraordinary excellence that now needs a partner to help them collaborate and grow in order to compete on international markets. This is a mission I wholeheartedly share, and I am proud to contribute to it.
Koinos Capital was founded with the mission to address and assist the Italian industrial market with a clear and distinctive approach: transforming Italian SMEs into international leaders and leveraging Italian expertise, not only by providing capital but also through the founders’ strong entrepreneurial DNA and their strategic and financial acumen. Koinos supports and accelerates the growth of established companies with the ambition to position them as consolidated leaders in their respective industries.
To date, the fund has adopted a “buy & build” approach, investing in four companies (Tre Zeta Group, Platum, Rosa Ermando, and Ultrabatch), with plans to complete new transactions by the end of the year.