Stefania Ponzo

Partner*

*Non Governing

As a Partner at Pi Labs, Stefania oversees our growing portfolio, working closely with our founders to ensure they have the strategic, financial and commercial support required to achieve global scale.

Based in London, Stefania brings over 14 years of experience working with high-growth technology companies as an investor and advisor. She spent seven years at Coutts Private Bank, advising UHNW clients globally on asset allocation and growth capital investment opportunities. Subsequently, she led fintech investments at Downing Ventures, a VC fund investing in UK-based Seed and Series A stage technology companies.

More recently, Stefania was a Portfolio Director at generalist VC trust Pembroke VCT where she provided strategic and operational support to executive teams and acted as a Board Observer for a large portfolio including leading arts and culture tech platform, Smartify. She is an active mentor in the early-stage tech community and an Angel Investor at London-based sustainable investment start-up.

Stefania holds an MSc in Financial Mathematics from Bayes Business School in London (previously Cass Business School) and an MSc in Economics and Statistics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.