Life at EQT
Being a part of EQT means being a part of a team where everyone is excited about what they are doing, the environment they are operating in, and the results they deliver. People are EQT’s most important asset.
MoreEQT has a 30-year track record of delivering consistent and attractive returns across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies.
The EQT Private Equity Advisory Team has vast investment expertise, industry and sector knowledge, and extensive networks in the local business communities and societies in which it operates. With a strong sector-based approach and by maintaining a local-with-locals presence, the team is uniquely positioned to analyze companies and the markets in which they operate, and to develop proprietary investment opportunities.
EQT Private Capital Asia has been transforming Asian companies through its pan-Asian investment platform for over 25 years. With a top-down thematic origination model and value creation centered around active ownership and transformation, the team is uniquely positioned to identify and source compelling investment opportunities across the entire region.
The EQT Ventures Advisory Team aims to support great entrepreneurs throughout different stages of growth, providing access to capital and in-depth specialist experience. The EQT Ventures funds employ a multi-stage strategy to make equity investments, typically ranging from late seed rounds all the way to growth rounds. This means the EQT Ventures’ support window is wider than a typical single-phase fund.
EQT Future's innovative approach enables EQT to hold companies for longer, leveraging EQT’s proven active ownership approach and a tailored impact management and measurement toolbox to drive attractive downside-protected returns.
The Fund is Article 9 classified and has innovated around ways to align sustainability with financial returns, linking carried interest to sustainability targets.
The Fund seeks to generate net positive impact in portfolio companies through two pathways: 1) identifying and incentivizing a pivot from the existing market offering at the time of investment towards products and services with a measurable positive impact; and/or 2) scaling existing impactful products and services for greater reach and depth of impact.
EQT Future sets portfolio-wide sustainability targets for its investments to transform how businesses are operated. The targets are supplemented with tailored impact KPIs for each business, designed to accelerate the positive impact of the company’s products or services.
EQT Future screens for, monitors, and manages for impact outcomes throughout the investment process by using its Impact Toolbox. This includes rigorous management and measurement, such as:
In addition, EQT Future tracks asset-level impact KPIs, aligned with the business impact case, as well as three sustainability performance KPIs across the portfolio:
EQT Life Sciences, formerly LSP, is one of Europe’s largest and most experienced healthcare investors, targeting innovative life sciences and health care companies. With a track record going back 30 years, EQT Life Sciences has raised more than €3 billion, and invested in over 150 private companies. With a dedicated team of highly experienced investment professionals, coming from backgrounds in medicine, science, and industry, EQT Life Sciences backs the smartest inventors who have ideas that could truly make a difference for patients. The team combines deep sector knowledge, analytical skills, and investment experience to provide the added value that inventors seek.
EQT Growth invests in companies within four primary tech sub-sectors: enterprise, con/prosumer, health, and climate. It partners with companies supported by long-term macro trends, deeply researching each sub-sector so it can invest with complete conviction in the companies that are truly primed for enduring success.
With a team based in five countries across Europe, and support from EQT Group’s global network, EQT Growth’s local presence ensures direct access to many of the continent’s most-established tech hubs.
EQT Public Value applies a private equity investing approach to the public markets by building significant influence positions in publicly-listed companies in the Northern European mid-cap space. The strategy targets undervalued, quality businesses and helps them realize their full performance potential by joining the Board of Directors and implementing value creation plans from behind the scenes. The primary value creation approach is to be a collaborative “constructivist” owner, supporting management and thereby creating sustainable long-term value for shareholders.
The EQT Value-Add Infrastructure Advisory Team seeks to identify control or co-control equity investments in infrastructure companies that provide an essential service to society, have long-term stable or growing underlying demand, predictable cash flows and an asset based, contracted and well protected business model.
EQT Value-Add Infrastructure supports its portfolio companies by applying its best-practices based value creation playbook across all stages of the investment process, from acquisition through ownership to exit. The EQT value creation toolbox, along with full potential plans, management and organizational health assessments, digital transformation, impact focused sustainability initiatives, and periodic performance reviews are applied to help each company reach its full potential.
EQT Active Core Infrastructure builds on 15 years of continuous refinement of an active ownership playbook and future-proofing of strong infrastructure companies. Primarily focused on Europe and North America, EQT Active Core Infrastructure targets companies that provide essential services to society and offer a distinct and attractive risk-return proposition based on stable cash yield generation, inflation protection, low volatility, and pursuit of longer-term value creation opportunities.
EQT Active Core Infrastructure's longer-hold ownership horizon of 15 to 25 years and focus on core infrastructure companies at the lower end of the risk-return spectrum aim to unlock investment opportunities that historically have fallen outside of the investment scope of EQT’s existing infrastructure strategy.
Deeply embedded in EQT’s Real Assets platform, EQT Active Core Infrastructure applies EQT’s active ownership approach and value creation playbook, leveraging on the infrastructure platform sector teams’ sourcing capabilities,industry insights, and local market access.
EQT Exeter, created through the combination of Exeter Property Group and EQT in 2021, is a global leader in real estate investment management, delivering some of the industry’s leading and most consistent value-add, core-plus, and core returns, as proven against prominent global benchmarks, for our investor clients. With over $45 billion in total property gross asset value since inception, we invest capital on behalf of sophisticated institutional clients around the world, including public, union, and corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments, insurers, and family investment offices, and funds of funds.
With a legacy stretching back over five decades, we acquire, develop, and manage logistics, office, life science, and residential real estate properties that meet the changing needs of tenants based on logistical, commercial, and demographic trends. EQT Exeter owns and operates over 2,000 properties and 375 million square feet, and we are one of the largest real estate developers in the world.
EQT has a broad set of blue-chip fund investors from all over the world, many of which have invested in the EQT funds since inception.
MoreEQT invests in good companies across the world with a mission to help them develop into great and sustainable companies.
MoreAn entrepreneurial spirit, operational approach and a high sense of urgency are the most central characteristics of EQT.
Being a part of EQT means being a part of a team where everyone is excited about what they are doing, the environment they are operating in, and the results they deliver. People are EQT’s most important asset.
MoreEQT Academy is an important tool for nurturing EQT’s values and culture while providing training for each career stage and function within the business, focusing on the skills relevant to each employee’s development.
MoreThe EQT Foundation was established in 2019 to drive EQT’s global philanthropic activities, to act as a long-term steward of EQT’s culture and values, and to complement the mission of making a positive impact with everything EQT does.
EQT Foundation website