EQT AB

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EQT AB
Company type Public company [1]
Nasdaq Stockholm:  EQT
Industry Investment management [1]
Founded1994 (1994) in Sweden [2]
FounderConni Jonsson [3]
HeadquartersRegeringsgatan 25,
Stockholm
,
Sweden
Key people
Services Investment management [1]
RevenueIncrease2.svg €1.6 billion (2021) (company) [1]
AUM Increase2.svg €210 billion (2022) [5]
Owners Wallenberg family, Investor AB
Number of employees
1,160 [1]
Subsidiaries
Website eqtgroup.com

EQT AB is a Swedish global investment organization founded in 1994. [2] Its funds invest in private equity, infrastructure, real estate, growth equity, and venture capital in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. [8]

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As of 2022, EQT's assets under management are €210 billion / US$227 billion. [5] 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. [9]

Organization

The company was founded in 1994 by SEB, AEA Investors, and Investor AB. [10] [11] It established venture capital business, EQT Ventures in 2016, [6] and went public in 2019 by IPO. [12]

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.

As of 2019, EQT had a 50.01% share in investment company Piolin BidCo, together with the two minority shareholders Alba Europe and Miles Capital. [13]

In 2021, EQT acquired Life Sciences Partners, a European venture capital firm with approximately €2.2 billion of assets under management [1] followed in 2022, by Baring Private Equity Asia managing funds of S$20.0 billion. [7]

Fund investments

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  2. 1 2 Espinoza, Javier (7 March 2019). "EQT Co-Founder Leaves to Set Up Socially Responsible Fund" . Financial Times. Nikkei. Archived from the original on 21 September 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Conni Jonsson". EQT. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Christian Simding". EQT. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  5. 1 2 "EQT AB (Publ) Year-end Report 2022".
  6. 1 2 Ewing, Adam (26 May 2016). "Buyout Fund EQT Starts $632 Million Venture Arm Targeting Europe". Bloomberg News . Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
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  13. ↑ Piolin BidCo se hace con el 13,08% de Parques Reunidos tras adquirir otros 47 millones de euros en acciones. vozpopuli, 26 July 2019.
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