EQT Foundation
Backing Researchers and Entrepreneurs
The EQT Foundation supports entrepreneurs, researchers, and agents of change to build a regenerative and more inclusive tomorrow. Founded by Partners at EQT, the foundation exists to push the frontiers of impact, empower the entire EQT ecosystem to give back to society in meaningful ways, and safeguard the EQT Values.
EQT Foundation is a catalytic investor
and grant maker
EQT Foundation is an independent charitable foundation, founded during EQT's 2019 stock exchange listing.
When EQT’s core group of partners founded the EQT Foundation, the ambition and motive was clear: to act as an eternal steward of the culture and values of EQT and to make a positive impact.
The EQT Foundation is a long-term shareholder in EQT and uses dividends and donations to support entrepreneurs, researchers and agents of change. Cultural safeguarding is about transferring knowledge, behavior and attitude – acting, and leading according to the core values, and promoting great cultural ambassadors across the firm. The EQT Foundation acts as a guardian of EQT’s values and governance model, and engaging employees in its contributions to society.
Programs
Combining catalytic capital with expertise from EQT Foundation.
Science
Many scientists at the frontiers of impact fail to reach commercialization due to early-stage funding gaps. Our EQT Foundation-funded grants address this by supporting researchers before company formation, while technologies are still being validated in the lab.
Startups
Our investment arm, the EQT Foundation Fund, makes catalytic investments in impact-driven startups, supporting entrepreneurs from lab stage to first commercial demonstration. We invest flexibly and strategically, with a long-term approach and the ability to join through various structures, including bridge rounds.
Scale
Our scale grants support individuals and organizations to agents of change working to close the capital gaps and overcome barriers for scientific progress to reach its impact potential.
“Our informal KPI is the pursuit of ‘collective goosebumps’. It’s that spark of possibility when we see how an innovation could connect with the EQT platform, how the right expertise, capital or network could accelerate its path to impact”
Cilia Holmes Indahl
Head of EQT Foundation
Meet the EQT Foundation Members
Anna Sundell
Partner
Matthias Fackler
Partner and Head of EQT Infrastructure Advisory Team Europe
Michael Bauer
Partner, Global Co-Head of Healthcare, Private Capital
Masoud Homayoun
Partner and Head of EQT Infrastructure
Zoe Haseman
Infrastructure Head of Sustainability
