Fabio Canè
Fabio Canè is an Italian businessman and private equity investor. He is a founding partner and managing partner of Renaissance Partners, an Italian private equity firm. He is a member of the executive board of AIFI the Italian private equity association, as well as President of the AIFI's technical committee for Private Equity Big Buy Out.
Early life and education
After a degree in Business Administration from Luiss University in Rome, Canè earned an MBA in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business in 1990.Career
Canè was a co-founder and partner of the Italian fashion retail website Yoox from 2000 to 2004.In 2005 he joined Intesa Sanpaolo where he became Head of Private Equity at Intesa Sanpaolo's CIB Division.
NB Renaissance Partners
In 2015, Canè co-founded NB Renaissance Partners with the late Stefano Bontempelli as a spin-off of Intesa Sanpaolo Private Equity. The firm was established in partnership with Neuberger Berman, which initially acquired a 51% stake in the joint venture. At founding, the firm managed over €2.8 billion in commitments from institutional investors including pension funds, insurance companies, banks, and family offices. By 2022 it was one of the biggest Private equity funds investing in Italian businesses.Renaissance Partners
In April 2024, Neuberger Berman agreed to sell its majority stake in NB Renaissance to Canè and Bontempelli, retaining only a 10% share. The transaction completed on April 1, 2025, and the platform was rebranded as Renaissance Partners and Aurora Growth Capital. The aim, Canè stated at the time, quoted in Il Sole 24 Ore, was to become Italy’s leading private markets investment company, filling the gap in the Italian market for an alternative investment platform and helping to boost the nation’s industrial development.Under Canè's leadership the company focuses on mid-market private equity investments in market-leading companies, primarily family-owned firms in Italy, with particular emphasis on tech and digital transformation, environmental sustainability, healthcare, and specialised industry. Notable investments include Italian tech company Bending Spoons, where Canè joined the board of directors in July 2024, Comelz and, in October 2025, 100% of the share capital of digital transformation firm Lodestar.
In June 2025, Canè announced plans to grow the platform from €3.3 billion to €5.5 billion in capital by the end of 2026. He has spoken about the pressing need for generational turnover and development of managerial techniques in Italy's thousands of family-owned businesses, and suggested the introduction of tax breaks for family-owned businesses that merge to form larger firms better able to compete on the global market.