Investments and Grants

• Early Stage Impact Investing

  Supporting early-stage entrepreneurs to bring breakthrough impact solutions from lab to market. Through EQT Foundation’s evergreen fund, we help founders targeting high impact and scalable business models with the aim of de-risking them for the next stage and help unlock bigger pools of capital.
  
  
  EQT Foundation supports

  • Entrepreneurs building solutions with the potential to remove or avoid significant amounts of greenhouse gasses
  • Entrepreneurs building market-based or marked-building solutions improving health and wellbeing for disadvantaged or underserved populations

  Evaluation Criteria

  • Large scale impact potential, predominantly through novel or deeptech solutions
  • Operating within the themes of climate and nature, health and wellbeing
  • Operations where EQT Foundation can meaningfully contribute to impact outcomes
  • Scalable business to unlock large pools of capital, after meeting milestones

• EQT Additionality

  Our hidden superpower is the EQTarian drive. We match the entrepreneurs we back with a mentor from EQT’s global network of +600 advisors and recruit a deal team consisting of engaged EQTarians. We bring expertise and our proven value creation toolbox to help early-stage impact companies attract growth capital.

• Grants

  EQT Foundation gives grants to those with breakthrough impact potential and are working towards future proofing society. These are non profit organizations or individuals who accelerate impact investing or demonstrate the use of philanthropic capital in innovative and potentially more effective ways.

  Evaluation Criteria

  • Research themes; climate and nature, health and wellbeing, impact measurement and market development
  • Scalability metric: scalable solution or the development of resources to more effectively allocate capital for impact

• Share your idea with us!

  Please submit your pitch deck here.