EQT Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Stockholm, Sweden

Total investments

211

Average round size

37M

Portfolio companies

113

Rounds per year

26.38

Lead investments

63

Follow on index

0.46

Exits

7

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSApps

Summary

EQT Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2015. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Stockholm. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in Sweden.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight dott, Peakon, Acerta Analytics Solutions. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Hardware, Apps. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Sweden.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2020. Opposing the other organizations, this EQT Ventures works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The typical startup value when the investment from EQT Ventures is 100-500 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 50 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The current fund was established by Hjalmar Winbladh, Kees Koolen, Lars Ju00f6rnow. We also calculated 14 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the EQT Ventures, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Balderton Capital, Heartcore Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Balderton Capital, Senovo, Octopus Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Balderton Capital, Senovo, Atomico.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 37 more
Check size
1M — 81M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 1100000000

Analytics

Total investments
211
Lead investments
63
Exits
7
Rounds per year
26.38
Follow on index
0.46
Investments by industry
  • Software (56)
  • Financial Services (28)
  • FinTech (28)
  • Artificial Intelligence (26)
  • Information Technology (25)
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Investments by region
  • Sweden (49)
  • United States (36)
  • France (8)
  • Finland (14)
  • United Kingdom (31)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
4
Number of Decacorns
4
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
133M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
10.59
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Natural Cycles 30 May 2024 Fitness, Health Care, Wellness, Apps, Medical Device, Personal Health, Women's Late Stage Venture 55M Stockholm County, Stockholm, Sweden
OWL 27 Mar 2024 Early Stage Venture 50M Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bielefeld, Germany

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