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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Open call for applications: Critical Mineral Substitutes for the Green Transition

Are you a scientist developing breakthrough materials and technologies that reduce our dependence on critical minerals for the net-zero transition?

EQT Foundation is seeking to award €25,000 to €100,000 in catalytic, non-dilutive funding to research projects with high-risk, high-impact, deep tech approaches to substituting or drastically reducing the use of critical minerals in key climate technologies.

This call aims to support breakthrough science that replaces or radically reduces critical minerals use, while improving performance, cost, and sustainability.

Supporting Progress Around the Globe

Grants

Investments

“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 IndahlHead of EQT Foundation

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