EQT AB is a Swedish global investment organization founded in 1994. Its funds invest in

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growth equity Growth capital (also called expansion capital and growth equity) is a type of private equity investment, usually a Minority interest, minority investment, in relatively mature companies that are looking for capital to expand or restructure operatio ...

, and

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

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. , EQT's assets under management are €210 billion / US$227 billion. It is ranked the third largest private equity firm worldwide based on funds raised according to the 2024 edition of Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking.

Organization

The company was founded in 1994 by SEB,

AEA Investors AEA Investors is an American middle market private equity firm. The firm focuses on leveraged buyout, growth capital, and mezzanine capital investments in manufacturing, service, distribution, specialty chemicals, consumer product, and busines ...

, and

Investor AB Investor AB is a Swedish investment and ''de facto'' conglomerate holding company. It was founded in 1916 and is still controlled by the Wallenberg family through their Foundation Asset Management company FAM. The company owns a controlling st ...

. It established

business,

EQT Ventures EQT Ventures is the venture capital business of Swedish investment manager EQT AB Group. In May 2016, EQT Ventures announced its first €566m fund that makes minority equity investments in European and US tech companies ranging between €1 mil ...

in 2016, and went

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in 2019 by

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. The firm and its associates have offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Guernsey, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Warsaw and Zurich. In 2021, EQT acquired Life Sciences Partners, a European venture capital firm with approximately €2.2 billion of assets under management followed in 2022, by

Baring Private Equity Asia BPEA EQT (formerly known as Baring Private Equity Asia and BPEA) is an Asian private equity firm. Previously it was an affiliate of Barings Bank before becoming an independent firm. In 2022 it was acquired by EQT Partners to act as its Asian inve ...

managing funds of S$20.0 billion.

Fund investments

* 2017, Medical device company Clinical Innovations from the

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for US$250 millionJonathan D. Rockoff
"Private-Equity Group EQT to Buy Medical Device Company for $250 Million,"
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The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'', 18 October 2017. * 2019,

SUSE SUSE ( , ) is a German-based multinational open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for enterprise. It is the developer of SUSE Linux Ent ...

for US$2.5 billion * 2019,

Zayo Group Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., or Zayo Group, is a privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. with European headquarters in London, England. The company provides communications infrastructure services, including fiber and band ...

Holding Inc from Digital Colony Partners for US$14.3 billion * 2019, Part of a consortium with

ADIA The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ( ar, جهاز أبوظبي للاستثمار, ADIA) is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi (in the United Arab Emirates) founded for the purpose of investing funds on behalf of the Gover ...

to acquire

Nestlé Nestlé S.A. (; ; ) is a Switzerland, Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other me ...

Skin Health * 2019, Acumatica * 2019, German

fiber-optic network Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of infrared light through an optical fiber. The light is a form of carrier wave that is modulated to carry information. Fiber is pref ...

provider Inexio for $1.1 billion * 2020, Spanish

website Idealista for €1.3 billion * 2020, Datacenter Provider Edge Connex was bought for $2.7 billion * 2021, Announced plans to acquire solar and storage

developer Developer may refer to: Computers * Software developer, a person or organization who develop programs/applications * Video game developer, a person or business involved in video game development, the process of designing and creating games * Web d ...

Cypress Creek Renewables * 2021, purchased American subsidiaries First Student and

First Transit First Transit is an American transportation company. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, First Transit operates over 300 locations, carrying more than 350 million passengers annually throughout the United States in 39 states, Puerto Rico, Panam ...

from British First Group * 2023, Announced plans to acquire Zeus Company, a global leader in advanced polymer components used in life-saving medical procedures for $3.4 billion.

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* {{Largest private equity firms Companies based in Stockholm Companies related to the Wallenberg family Financial services companies established in 1994 Private equity firms of Sweden Swedish companies established in 1994